• Planning Systems provides land planning, landscape architecture,
  land use policy formulation, and processing/permitting services.
  These services are not an unusual array for most planning firms. However, Planning Systems offers each of these services to clients
  in the context of assisting the client achieve a large-scale goal, rather
  than production of an individual task.
• Competent technical services, combined with a problem-solving approach, offer more value for each consultant dollar spent.
  More value for the dollar is a universal goal for property owners and developers. The firm is small, its staff experienced, and everyone
  ‘does the work.’
  Potentially non-cost effective, time consuming ‘overhead’ types of activities are reduced, or eliminated, through office automation.
  The result is effective, efficient, adaptable services.
• The land planning process is historically thought of as unpredictable and hard to understand.
  This is not the case if one knows how the systems works and can
  communicate that to those making key decisions.
  The key to achieving the client's goal is to identify the opportunities
  and constraints, and develop a clear path, product by product.
  In a multifaceted undertaking it is common for consultants to
  narrow their view through the ‘that’s not my job’ line of reasoning,
  when in reality most tasks overlap.
• The variety of innovative accomplishments by Planning Systems over the years is evidence of the flexibility and capability of the group.
  A project that illustrates how diverse the company’s services can be is the multi-award winning Aviara project in North San Diego County.
  Planning Systems has been involved in the project since 1985. During that time, services have included assistance in Master Plan formulation, preparation of the project’s Growth Management Plan, coastal permit processing, native vegetation/re-vegetation plans, open space and dedication negotiations and trade-offs, presentations to various resource regulatory agencies, preparation of slide shows, booklets
  and informational packets to various interest groups,
  Master Association maintenance manuals, development of fire suppression standards, site plan feasibility studies and formulation
  of negotiating strategies.