Jessica is joined by City of Mesa Project Managers Jeffery Robbins and Rachel Nettles and the Chair of the Mesa 2050 General Plan Advisory Committee Ron Williams, to discuss the 2050 Mesa General Plan Update. Learn how they started back in 2020 preparing for the update and everything that you see and don’t see to prepare the guiding policy document for the November 2024 voter ballot to get it across the finish line.

Continue to listen in on this fun event celebrating 5 years of Upfront Planning & Entitlements and bringing in all our friends, clients, coworkers and guests to talk and celebrate.  Hear their shout outs, stories and all the fun that was had celebrating this milestone. You might hear someone you know or you!

Listen in on this fun event celebrating 5 years of Upfront Planning & Entitlements and bringing in all our friends, clients, coworkers and guests to talk and celebrate. Hear their shout outs, stories and all the fun that was had celebrating this milestone. You might hear someone you know or you!

Jesse Westad, PLA, ASLA and Brian Sager, PLA, CID, LEED AP with WERK Urban Design dives into designing projects that last through being sustainable in landscape architecture and open space infrastructure.  Hear why it’s more important to provide good planting policies in code vs. minimum tree requirements and opportunities to be creative in retention and drainage to better use water in our desert landscape.

Jeanine Jerkovic, CEcD from the City of Surprise and Eric Johnson, AICP from the City of Phoenix join us for a fun intro into 2024!  Launch into 2024 and hear about the Economic Development that is occurring in Arizona and what they project for 2024!  Hear what they think makes a City succeed over others as well as what makes the difference in having a Great Economic Development Department.

Valerie Ahyong, PLA, LEED AP, ASLA from Lloyd Architecture and Chad Atterbury, PLA, LEED AP from Dig Studio join us to discuss landscape architecture and design and how easy it is to make or break a project through the design and by creating truly unique spaces and places.  Hear what they feel is the proper time to bring landscape and outdoor spaces into the development discussion and why you should never ignore landscape and outdoor spaces.

Happy Holidays and listen to this fun holiday episode as they discuss the networking and fun holiday parties from this 2023 holiday season!  The outfits, the venues, the guests, the food and the photos!  Join in and hear what they are like and checkout our Instagram page to see all the event pictures at “Upfront Planning Podcast” Instagram page.

Scott Kelly, PE, PTOE with Greenlight Traffic and Steve McKenzie, PE, PTOE with the City of Peoria join us to tell us about ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) and how the world is changing to make things faster, safer and more convenient in transportation systems.  Learn how long your driving habits are kept in the cloud for and how these systems are implemented and run.  Don’t worry its usually only AI judging your driving habits now.

Land Advisors’ Kirk McCarville (Jimmy Buffet look alike) and Trey Davis join us to talk about the immense growth of Pinal County and Casa Grande and what it in store for the future of the area. Listen as they talk about what market areas are growing, for how long and what the area needs to continue to be the growth and job future for the state.  Kirk and Trey will tell you what is going on in every inch of the County and the history of it so you can buy the land “in the path of development”.

Architect Ben Ayers comes back to join us about his favorite discussion, Reuse.  Reuse of buildings and sites is not new, but becoming more common in Arizona as its aging and we are seeing more and more infill.  Listen in as Ben discusses with us the things you may have not thought about when trying to convert a building’s use from one thing to another and how sometimes design and zoning code may need to be amended to accommodate for things that weren’t envisioned when they were originally created for mostly new sites vs. existing Reuse.