Community Planning & Urban Design
MIG focuses on developing sustainable and implementable plans based on detailed technical planning and design and wide-spread community support. MIG’s unique combination of planning and design expertise allows us to conduct planning in a highly interactive process involving all constituent groups. Through MIG’s collaborative planning and design process, client goals, development needs and community interests work together to frame key issues and result in innovative and implementable solutions.
Featured Projects
MIG collaborated with downtown Los Angeles private and public partners to spur a “renaissance of the downtown area” through a strategic development plan for Downtown Los Angeles.
MIG helped develop urban design solutions along with a branding, identity and retail strategy for Boston's historic Downtown Crossing District.
The Downtown Plan focuses on revitalizing Anchorage with clear land use strategies and innovative winter city design.
MIG worked with business and community stakeholders to develop a comprehensive Downtown Plan to guide growth in Downtown Spokane.
MIG produced economic and prototypical development standards to help revitalize Downtown Ocala.
MIG created a strategic development framework for the downtown core of Sacramento.
MIG developed strategies and design improvement concepts to help spark the restoration of Rialto's Downtown.
MIG prepared conceptual plans and construction documents for site enhancements associated with the redevelopment of Downtown Anaheim.
MIG prepared a development framework and urban design plan for the Skidmore/Old Town Historic District in downtown Portland, Oregon.
MIG prepared a downtown area plan that focused on creating a sustainable, healthy and inclusive downtown for Denver, Colorado.
MIG is embarking on an innovative and high-profile project for Downtown Calgary to cohesively integrate the realms of retail analysis, branding, image and identity, and urban design.
MIG helped the country’s fastest-growing city reinvent its downtown.
MIG guided the creation of a development vision for the future of White Rock.
MIG helped the community create a cohesive vision to improve a major arterial corridor in Missoula, Montana with development alternatives that could help fulfill that vision.
MIG led this model project that challenged the conventional design of streets to integrate people and vehicles seamlessly in an historic setting.
MIG redesigned this corridor to be more people-friendly and is part of the team implementing the vision through construction drawings.
Building on MIG’s successful completion of the Downtown Marysville Strategic Plan in 2004, the firm was selected to provide urban design services to improve to two of Maryville’s busiest corridors: E Street (State Route 70) and 9th Street (State Route 20).
MIG led a team of landscape architects and civil engineers to design and create construction documents for the first Green Street in Sacramento for a five block stretch of Dixieanne Avenue.
Sacramento, California has developed one of the longest green streets in the nation, improving storm-water management, revitalizing a blighted neighborhood and connecting the residential area to the Swanston Light-Rail Station Area.
MIG leading a comprehensive update to Richmond's General Plan including the development of unique plan elements such as a Health Element and Climate Change Element and an extensive public involvement process.
MIG is currently leading a collaborative team to prepare the City of Santa Monica’s Land Use and Circulation Element.
Working closely with City staff, key stakeholders and local community members, MIG created an update of the General Plan that will guide the development of the City for the next 20 years.
The Ukiah Valley Area Plan identifies vision, goals, policies and implementation measures to guide development in this part of Mendocino County.
MIG led the development of a Plan that addresses safety, recreation and natural resource protection for 1,400 acres along five miles of the American River in Sacramento County.
MIG is leading this innovative and inclusive General Plan Update that includes a Health and Wellness element and a Climate Change element.
Building from the community's vision for the future, MIG led this comprehensive General Plan update with initiatives to revitalize the Downtown and preserve open space.
MIG prepared improvements plans for six San Jose neighborhoods as part of a citywide initiative to empower and engage residents in community enhancement.
MIG worked with the City Planning Department to prepare a design plan for Upper Market Street that reflects the community’s vision and establish guidelines for development.
MIG used a collaborative approach to develop a Redevelopment Area Strategic Plan, which will improve the overall quality of life in the Sonoma Valley.
MIG worked with the City to develop a community-based program to improve neighborhood conditions and service delivery.
MIG facilitated the Astor East Revised Urban Renewal Plan, an urban development decision that will shape Astoria’s landscape for generations.
MIG worked with the City and neighborhood leaders to develop a community-based program to improve, review and update neighborhood improvement plans.
As an implementation step in the Spokane Downtown Development Plan, MIG completed the Riverfront Park and North Bank Master Plan, which was identified as an action strategy in the Downtown Development Plan.
MIG worked with the City of Redwood City to conduct outreach and address critical connectivity issues in the Fair Oaks neighborhood.
MIG worked with City staff and neighborhood leaders to develop a tailored approach to community outreach and neighborhood improvement planning.
MIG worked with a housing developer to plan and design a new community based on smart growth and sustainability principles.
MIG created a development plan for Chualar that reflected community character and capitalized on community strengths.
MIG created an award-winning sustainable Neighborhood Master Plan for UC Davis along with an update to its Long Range Development Plan (LRDP).
MIG worked with Greenfair Village Partners in Sacramento, California to redevelop a 30-acre infill site east of Downtown.
MIG led a dynamic visioning and land use planning process to identify future use and development principles for this 430-acre former mill site in Fort Bragg, California.
MIG developed a long-range master plan to help guide the transition of the California State University, Monterey Bay campus from an Army base to an institution of higher learning.
MIG developed a site master plan that unites four higher education institutions on a campus on the bank of the Spokane River.
MIG designed the Amtrak Station platforms and pedestrian bridge in Fullerton, California.
MIG developed the Northeast Line Light Rail Stations Plan to transform North Sacramento into one of the most livable neighborhoods in Sacramento.
MIG created a transit-oriented design and specific plan for the redevelopment of a long-neglected Sacramento neighborhood.