We have had the responsibility of assisting and helping to guide projects of all scales, small to large, across rural, suburban, and urban communities. We approach each project with care, attention to detail and expertise to garner the results that create a difference in the lives of the communities that we are honored to plan with. Through listening, we are excited to share what we have learned.
City of Buffalo, NY
Neighborhood Stabilization Plan, 2019
The Neighborhood Stabilization Plan is created over 19 months to identify and review 35 planning neighborhoods in Buffalo. The stabilization plan documented the fieldwork to identify vacant and abandoned properties on a block-by-block basis, developing and training neighborhood networks to identify and coordinate vacant and abandoned properties. To accomplish this, JPCS worked with neighborhood stakeholders, elected officials, block groups, banks, city departments, community development organizations, community leaders, and religious organizations to develop key strategies to address current vacant and abandoned properties impacting the neighborhood’s critical corridors.
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This led to the creation of policy recommendations, a neighborhood task force, and a distressed property/land structure prevention pathway system to contribute to revitalizing neighborhoods and major thoroughfares and the overall economic development of underutilized areas of the City.
Central Terminal Restoration Corporation , NY
Buffalo Central Terminal Master Plan, 2021
This project redefines the Buffalo Central Terminal’s future as a vibrant local and regional destination providing economic and social benefits to the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, Buffalo’s East Side and the Greater Buffalo community
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A high-level framework that identifies key assets, opportunities and challenges within Broadway-Fillmore that can inform broad revitalization efforts across the neighborhood, while improving quality of life and attracting thoughtful investment and interested visitors
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The planning process considered three distinct but interconnected segments to inform the overall Master Plan approach, one of which is the Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Framework Plan. The Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Framework Plan is a high-level strategy to identify and support key connections of core assets in Broadway-Fillmore that can shape broader revitalization efforts across the neighborhood, improve quality of life and attract investment and visitors to the area
Buffalo Urban League & Local Initiative Support Corporation, NY
Economic Development Agenda Plan 2021
The Economic Development Agenda Plan is a community-led and collaborative effort guided by a 2-year previous engagement effort in planning neighborhoods within the City of Buffalo. The Economic Development Agenda provides insight into a 4-month engagement and planning process that provides insight into the small business needs, challenges, and opportunities for numerous planning neighborhoods. It describes engagement results and identified strategies that create inclusive, equitable development opportunities for current small and emerging business owners-led improvement implementation steps and projects.
Jacques Planning & Consulting Services (JPCS) produced the Economic Inclusive Development Rubric and Scenario Planning efforts in critical neighborhoods. This addresses the attraction and retaining of young professionals, generating a more substantial investment opportunity into storefront properties, current key vacant land sights, and potential acquisition and partnerships of crucial community uses across fundamental sectors such as real estate, minority developers, creative economy professionals, workforce development, and childcare professionals.
This Plan provides the framework for actionable small and medium-scale projects along key corridors within the City of Buffalo, such as Kensington-Bailey Avenue, Broadway-Fillmore, and Main Street areas.
City of Brownsville, TX
International Southmost Choice Plan, 2022
The International Southmost Choice Plan for Victoria Gardens comprised a planning scope that included the scale of the housing development managed by HACB (46 units) and the surrounding community. This Plan sought to identify, connect and amplify resources in the community to support a vibrant neighborhood life, explore new economic opportunities, increase access to community services, and improve the quality of places and spaces for its residents.
The Plan also proposes a new affordable housing design and neighborhood strategies that promote a mix of uses and areas, integrate amenities and businesses, and support access to services and resources in the community.
City of Atlanta Comprehensive Plan Update & ATL Zoning Rewrite 2022-2023
Jacques Planning & Consulting Services partnered with team of consultants to provide Comprehensive Plan update to Plan A, the 2016 Comprehensive Plan started by the City of Atlanta. The updated plan focused on building off of learn initiatives, priorities, and objectives learned through the previous zoning rewrite and Plan A.
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We focused on creating a strategy that addressed
Land Use Policies and Zoning regulations that make up a system that shapes growth and development. To address this, a proposed CDP public engagement plan was coordinated with the zoning ordinance rewrite to share information; develop aligned strategies; and reduce the potential for public "meeting fatigue" by scheduling multiple meetings around the same time.
Engagement focused on new land use tools for review, refinement, and confirmation. It then allowed Atlantans to develop specific visions for how to apply these tools through text and the Future Land use Map (or equivalent).
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These discussions were grounded in the knowledge that the new Zoning Ordinance's use of Zone Strings will be flexible enough to support various zoning outcomes once the CDP is adopted.
Village of West Milton, OH
Downtown Master Plan, 2022
The West Milton Downtown Master Plan is the Village’s official plan and policy guide for Downtown West Milton. It provides a decision-making framework for Village staff, elected and appointed officials, residents, business owners, and community stakeholders. The Plan presents a community vision for the future of Downtown, outlining specific recommendations and strategies to help achieve that vision over time.
Further, the plan establishes an expectation for future investment, communicating the types of uses, desired built form, and improvements for Downtown West Milton.
Inclusive Prosperity Capital, NY
Buffalo Accelerator Project, 2022
Jacques Planning & Consulting Services (JPCS) performed building analysis, market opportunity, resource, and gaps analysis. Scope gauged and identified current financing and key institutions involved in deciding on six renewable energy sources and decarbonizing community, religious institutions, and multi-family buildings. JPCS documented funding sources, assessed building owners’ capacity to make energy-saving upgrades, detailed the energy needs assessment questionnaire, identified renewable energy service upgrades based on building and market database analysis, and convened key stakeholders around building and resource gaps in downtown and surrounding buildings.
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JPCS defined goals and vision and created outcomes and next steps based on data-driven and community feedback approach. During scope, JPCS built relationships with ECLIPSE of Erie County Government, NYSERDA, and LISC WNY to leverage previous renewable energy initiatives to develop and inform renewable energy products and services that Inclusive Prosperity Capital could offer
MARTA, GA
Alternative Transit Study 2023
The Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative is MARTA’s proposed new high-capacity transit service that would provide a connection between two existing heavy rail lines through a major employment and institutional corridor in the Atlanta region. Key activity centers in the corridor are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, Emory University Hospital, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta – Egleston, Lindbergh Center, and Atlanta VA Medical Center.
A Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) for the project was previously adopted by the MARTA Board of Directors in 2012. In December 2018, an updated LPA was recommended but not adopted. However, due to changing conditions in the corridor and new funding and technology opportunities, MARTA Leadership performed a multi-stage Alternatives Analysis with public engagement to evaluate several new project alternatives and has contracted a team of consultants led by AECOM to assist with the further analysis. Jacques Planning & Consulting Services assisted with identifying an LPA that is based on maximizing community and stakeholder support, minimizing environmental and community impacts, increasing the potential for federal funding, and supporting community needs and the project purpose.
Erie County, NY
Culture & Arts Plan, 2024
In October 2023, Erie County consulted AEA and Jacques Planning & Consulting Services to begin the process of developing a cultural plan, an investment that responded to advocacy by the Greater Buffalo Cultural Alliance among other cultural and civic leaders. This investment was made so that a County-wide plan might enhance the ability of Erie County's arts and cultural sector to build community; create an attractive, deeply ingrained sense of place; and raise the region's profile. Critical to this process will be the plan's ability - in both conception and subsequent execution - to place Erie County within a national and global context while optimizing its unique characteristics, underpinned by a sustained focus on equity, inclusion, collaboration, and transparency.
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The County is now seeking to build from this history to embed arts and cultural development more deeply in cross-sector priorities (e.g. business, tourism, education, workforce development). The Cultural Plan will promote, encourage, and increase support for the region's artistic and cultural assets - shaping a shared future that is sustainably resilient, inclusive, and equitable. The Plan will thus be multidisciplinary, inclusive, and visionary, with specific goals.
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The results of this process will lead to recommendations for creative cultural and objective strategies, with an action plan that consists of program elements (i.e. working within the context of trends in arts and cultural production and consumption) locally, nationally, and internationally. The end result will be a clear and well-rounded action plan, with a framework for assessing impact.
Village of Warsaw, NY
Comprehensive Plan, 2024
Jacques Planning & Consulting Services in partnership with Urban Vantage LLC is currently initiating a comprehensive planning approach that involves three
distinct phases - A needs assessment,
a strategic plan, and an action /
implementation plan. Smart growth principals will be adhered to when developing strategies for this plan.
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When complete, the plan will successfully identify the Villages area and opportunities for future growth and capture current assets. Jacques Planning & Consulting services has worked closely with steering committees, advisory boards, elected officials, the local school system, community assets and the stakeholders to represent a plan that reflects their vision, values, and future development goals for years to come.
Jacques Planning & Consulting Services is working to identify grant opportunities that can build off of identified catalyst projects at key strategic areas within the Village, furthering economic development and increasing residents quality of life.
City of Jamestown , NY Comprehensive Plan 2024
We are currently working on a Comprehensive Plan in partnership with C &S Companies that will establish objectives that the community wants to achieve, guide future sustainable growth within the municipality, enhance the local cultural identity, and protect local natural and cultural resources. The plan will address Smart Growth principles as established by NYSDOS. During this process we will review existing work, gather public input necessary to complete the plan and work with the Committee to plan and present the full Comprehensive Plan to the City for approval.
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This will include a thorough and collaborative effort that both builds on the existing body of work recently accomplished and being developed by the City and engages a variety of stakeholders drafting both a Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code update that reflect the long-term vision, goals and policies of the community and provide a guide for future decision makers.
We have planned to engage with the public and city staff and officials, interact with New York State Department of State (NYSDOS) reviewers and address comments received on different versions of the draft Comprehensive Plan and draft Zoning Code amendments, and be responsible for producing both final draft documents for approval by the Planning Commission and NYSDOS and for adoption by the Jamestown City Council over a 15 month period.