Pre-development · Zoning & Entitlements · Municipal Planning
Every project has two sides of the counter. We've sat on both.
Pick your side and tell us what landed on your desk. More than 20 years as both the reviewing planner and the applicant's consultant means we've likely seen it from where you're standing.
The public side
I work for a city or county.
A data center application just came in, and we've never reviewed one.
Lead review of large or first-of-their-kind projects, from intake through the staff report.We're a planner short and the applications keep coming.
Contract planning and staff augmentation: reviews, staff reports, hearings, and applicant service.Our code contradicts itself, and applicants keep noticing.
Zoning and ordinance audits, process improvement, and cleaner application materials.
The private side
I'm building something.
We have sites in a dozen jurisdictions and no single tracker.
Program management across sites and workstreams, with issue tracking and milestone planning.The city keeps sending new comments and we don't know why.
Permitting and entitlement coordination, AHJ response support, and meeting prep.We're entering a market we've never permitted in.
Pre-development sequencing and a read on how the local jurisdiction actually decides.
Advisory and coordination only. We work alongside your land use counsel and technical consultants.
Ask about project support →Either side of the counter
“We're not even sure what the question is yet.”
Good. That's where we do our best work. We help define the problem, gather the right voices, and shape it into a workable plan.
Who's in the room
Projects stall between people, not inside them.
Engineers, attorneys, planning staff, elected officials, and neighbors each hold a piece of the answer. We connect those pieces, translate between them, and keep the whole picture moving toward a decision.
Land Use Counsel
We work alongside your attorneys so the legal strategy and the planning record line up. Chimmy Consulting provides advisory and coordination only, not legal or technical representation.
Range across the whole process. Depth where it counts.
Range
Public and private practices across 10 states. Project types from warehouses and housing to fiber networks, substations, and solar.
Depth
Hands-on experience with the projects smaller departments see once a generation: data centers, master-planned communities, and multi-market infrastructure programs.
Connection
We turn technical reports, code language, and community input into clear next steps that staff, applicants, and decision-makers can all act on.
For all your planning needs — ask Chimmy.
Tell us what's going on. Most clients work with us on retainer, and hourly or fixed-fee options fit discrete scopes.