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Scenario Planning Scenario planning provides a flexible, stakeholder -based tool for identifying anticipated long-term results of various transportation infrastructure and land use scenarios Our team consists of individuals who have successfully completed comprehensive plans using scenario planning. Our understanding of tools and best practices will provide the City with valuable insight, guidance, and hands- on support. We have conducted scenario planning as part of regional transportation plans, transportation master plans, and community general plans across the country We facilitated all aspects of a large land use/transportation outreach visioning process, Including public participation and analytical assessments At the visioning workshops, participants were provided with the necessary tools to convey their vision for the future and how they would integrate land use and transportation. Results from the workshops were used to help build future growth scenarios and identify viable strategies for achieving the best and desired aspects of the scenarios. Comprehensive Development Services Kimley-Florn has served clients in the public and private sectors with an increasingly broad range of services since the founding of the firm in 1967. Our commitment to sustainable design is supported by numerous in-house LEED professionals who work with clients across the country to achieve the technological, economic, and environmental requirements for LEED certification. By providing our clients with an integrated, multidisciplinary team of design professionals, Kimley-Horn delivers creative and innovative solutions for complex projects nationwide. Sustainability/Healthy Communities Sustainability and healthy communities have become part of the lexicon of planning. Our plans and processes seek to incorporate sustainabllity and healthy communities' concepts into our planning projects. Complete Streets, low impact development (LID), mobility, safe routes to school, access to healthy food, and bike/trail planning are examples of sustainability concepts that have been incorporated into our planning documents. We have provided award -winning Kimley>»Horn City of Santa Ana Environmental and Planning Services sustainabllity policies to our municipal clients, including transit- oriented development, General Plan policies, and urban infill Specific Plans, Public Scoping/Community Outreach Stakeholder engagement and involvement Is an integral part of almost every Kimley-Horn planning project, Residents, business, state and federal agencies, environmental interest groups, and the interested community -at -large are an important part of identifying issues of concern, helping define alternatives, and ultimately supporting the direction the project will take. By providing these parties with meaningful ways to provide input Into the planning process, key issues can be addressed early in the project, avoiding critical delays later. Kimley-Horn's planning staff has developed and implemented hundreds of community engagement processes throughout the country. We understand the dynamic nature of outreach and have used a variety of engagement techniques, including bilingual facilitation, web -based participation, visual preference surveys, community workshops, phone surveys, focus groups, and digital and print media, Kimley-Horn routinely prepares materials and facilitates public outreach programs including community workshops and charrettes, public seeping meetings, public hearings, and briefings to elected officials, committees, and City staff. For some projects, workshops, meetings, and/or targeted outreach efforts may be appropriate to provide a forum for meaningful community input and effectively instill the public with a sense of "partnering" and "ownership" in the process. The Kimley-Horn project team includes skilled professionals that can effectively facilitate public meetings and conduct presentations on the environmental process and/or required technical analyses. Our staff has lead extensive public outreach programs involving numerous agencies. Our professional staff includes fluent Spanish speakers and Chinese (Cantonese; Mandarin) speakers who can provide real-time translation services for community engagement activities as well for written materials.