Strategic Planning
Our core competency is strategic & comprehensive plans.
Strategic plans can be a cost-effective way of helping communities create a vision, identify their values, consider their goals and objectives, and advance specific projects. Strategic planning can also provide a lower-cost way to initiate a comprehensive or master planning process.
The Center for Resilient Metro-Regions at UMass Amherst undertakes strategic and comprehensive planning, as well as code diagnostics and code writing, governance and management assessment, project management, and grant writing for its community-focused projects.
Recent Projects
Avon MassTrails Grant Application
Avon Master Plan
Avon Smart Industrial Park Plan
Beverly Sign Diagnostic
D.W. Field Park Trail Assessment
Easton Regulatory Permit Diagnostic
Northfield Placemaking Plan
Turo MVP Grant Application (Resilience Hub)
Westborough Open Space & Recreation Plan
Windham Regional, VT, Housing Options
Strategic and Comprehensive Planning Resources
Feiden, W. and the Center for Resilient Metro-Regions. (2024). Strategic Planning for Communities, and Organizations, PAS Report #607. American Planning Association. (Free for American Planning Association members.)
Case Study: Feiden, W. and the Center for Resilient Metro-Regions. (2025). Low‐Carbon, Climate Resilience Opportunities in Small Limited Resource Cities A Journey to Resilience in Northampton, Massachusetts. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Strategic Planning
Strategic plans can be a very cost effective way of helping communities create a vision, identify their values, consider their goals and objectives, and advance specific projects. These can be free-standing projects or a lower cost way to kickoff a comprehensive or master planning process.
For more information on strategic planning, read:
Feiden, Wayne and Center for Resilient Metro-Regions. 2024. Strategic Planning for Communities, and Organizations, PAS Report #607. American Planning Association. (Free for APA members.)
