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Table of Contents - Community Plans
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Decades of experience + advanced technology = award-winning plans
Our parent company, planning consultancy Kendig Keast Collaborative, leads the industry with decades of experience working in and with local governments to develop ground-breaking comprehensive and special area master plans, along with parks and recreation, corridor and neighborhood plans, and more.
By using creative tools like WebPlan, the Interactive Summary or Document Gallery, important documents like comprehensive plans can be summarized to highlight the most relevant points.
The fact that they’re highly graphic, attractive and appealing to laypersons makes them all the more valuable.
Nearly every town, city and county has a comprehensive plan to guide government policy regarding its long-range physical, economic and social development. Plans of this nature are essential to guide the pattern and timing of development – or redevelopment – and the public facilities, services and infrastructure necessary to support it.
The downside of these plans is that they tend to be long and technical; difficult to read and interpret by the very citizens who may be most affected.
The enCodePlus software suite was the vision of the planners at KKC. It represents the state-of-the-art technology they desired to streamline their work and shape the future of planning practices.
This value of this platform lies in its capacity to convey intricate ideas through engaging visual content, sparing users from navigating through overwhelming, lengthy documents.
PRIORITY #1: SCALABILITY
You can implement these tools to create your plan entirely in house using CloudWriter, or you can enlist the experts at KKC to help with whatever level of assistance you need.
The software is equally applicable for a town of 1,500 persons as it is for a large city, urbanized county, or major metropolitan area.
Ready to dive into developing a new or updated plan?
Whether its created in-house, by a consultant or collaboratively, enCodePlus is the right tool for the job.
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EXAMPLE: GREENSBORO, NC, GSO2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
Greensboro, NC built their 2040 comprehensive plan using the tools and features on the enCodePlus platform. American Planning Association (APA), the national association of urban planning professionals, gave it the prestigious 2022 Daniel Burnham Award.
Read more about this award-winning comprehensive plan here.
EXAMPLE: GRANADA COUNTY, MS, 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
In 2021, the Greater Grenada Partnership of Grenada County, MS, began preparing their Build Better Together 2040 Comprehensive Plan to ensure their readiness for future growth.
They partnered with KKC to draft and publish an online version of the plan.
The enCodePlus Plan Navigator was implemented to allow users to find the highlights of the plan with ease.
EXAMPLE: FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA, POLICY PLAN
Fairfax County, VA contracted with enCodePlus to develop the Comprehensive Plan in a web-based interactive format, as well as the Zoning Ordinance and Public Facilities Manual. The Comprehensive Plan includes links to the Policy Plan, Area Plans, Special Planning Areas, Planning Districts, Glossary, Plan Amendments, and Help.
The Policy Plan navigation page presents each individual section with individual links to each element, as well as the Comprehensive Plan Maps, GIS Web Applications and numerous resources. The Historic Comprehensive Plan is provided in the Archives.
EXAMPLE: BUTTE COUNTY, CO, GENERAL PLAN
Butte County, CA, engaged KKC in 2022 to convert the county’s 2030 General Plan to the enCodePlus platform.
Their goal was to help the citizens of the county’s geographically dispersed rural community access and understand it.
This was just the first of many planning and development documents to be published in this way. Now you can explore their General Plan 2040, Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Ordinance, Climate Action Plan and Upper Ridge Community Plan, too.
EXAMPLE: BAYTOWN, TX, bayway corridor PLAN
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Before you begin laying out the scope, schedule and budget to update your existing plan or to develop a new one, contact enCodePlus or Kendig Keast Collaborative to learn how to use these state-of-the-art digital plan products. We use the software ourselves to write, facilitate client staff and public input, and publish highly readable and impressive plans to the web. Contact us for a demonstration and proposal.
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