Visioning + Long-Range Planning
Where community ambition becomes adopted policy.
Comprehensive plans, community visioning, and engagement strategy that frame alternative futures, surface real trade-offs, and produce a direction a community can actually adopt and act on.
A vision expresses a community’s shared values —
and aligns the plans and policies that follow around them.
A long-range plan carries the most weight when it grows from what a community actually values. We surface those values and big ideas through deep, accessible engagement — reaching the people with the most at stake, not just the usual voices — and use scenario planning to make the consequences of growth choices visible before they’re locked in. That shared vision becomes the reference point for future decisions, translated into policy the community will adopt.
Comprehensive Plans
Long-range plans that integrate scenario modeling, state statutory requirements, and community-vetted vision — designed for adoption and built to withstand the conditions communities will actually face.
Community + Regional Visioning
Spatial frameworks, urban renewal strategies, and streetscape designs that rebuild economic activity and civic life in downtown cores and main street corridors.
Engagement Strategy
Purpose-built engagement strategies that reach the people most affected by planning decisions — in their language, their venue, their schedule — and connect what they say to what gets decided.
Irene Kim, Partner, Community Engagement + Visual Communications
Irene leads engagement strategy and visual communications on long-range planning projects — designing processes that reach the communities most affected by planning decisions and translating complex technical findings into materials people can engage with and act on. She is a lead consultant on the City of Bend Growth Plan, guiding engagement across five phases toward 2027–2029 adoption milestones. For the City of Bellingham PROS Plan, she leads branding, infographics, and public meetings supporting a six-year parks roadmap. She also leads engagement on the Clackamas County Parks System Plan, developing an inclusive strategy with intercept surveys and a community-driven plan.
Irene Kim, Partner
Expert spotlight
Sachi Arakawa, Partner, Visioning + Long-Range Planning
Sachi is an urban planner and environmental specialist with over a decade of experience leading comprehensive plans, community visioning processes, and engagement strategies for public agencies across the West. She is currently leading the City and Borough of Juneau’s multi-year Comprehensive Plan update — a nine-task process integrating scenario planning, equitable engagement, and an Advisory Committee built to produce a community-vetted vision that withstands a range of future conditions. She also led Benton County’s comprehensive planning Phase 1, including a DLCD-approved Exploratory Scenario Planning work program designed for climate and housing resilience.
Sachi Arakawa, Partner
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