Our primary capabilities include:

• Redevelopment Plans
• Zoning-Design Guidelines
• Smart Growth/New Urbanism
• Community/Urban Planning
• NEPA Documentation
• Natural Resource Permitting
• Waterfront Development
• Traditional Neighborhood Design
• Visioning/Master Planning

Dresdner Robin offers a wide variety of community and environmental planning services, including brownfield redevelopment, environmental resource inventories, environmental impact statements, recreation and open space plans, master planning, fair share housing plans, waterfront and downtown revitalization studies, expert testimony, as well as other special studies. Dresdner Robin specializes in community outreach, concept plan development, Area in Need of Redevelopment Studies, Redevelopment Plans, and variance applications for both public and private entities.

Dresdner Robin specializes in providing professional planning services to designate Areas in Need of Redevelopment as well as creating Redevelopment Plans. Our studies are consistent with the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law Act and provide the necessary information to determine if the area in question meet any of the Area in Need of Redevelopment Criterion (NJSA 40A: 12A-6). Included in this evaluation is a physical assessment of study area which includes reviews of land use patterns, building conditions, occupancy/vacancy, transportation and circulation patterns, urban design, active institutions and environmental conditions. Once an evaluation is complete, GIS maps detailing area in need of redevelopment criteria, land use, ownership, brownfields, and vacancy are created. Once an area is determined to be an Area in Need of Redevelopment, Dresdner Robin has the expertise to create the Redevelopment Plan.

Dresdner Robin also specializes in providing planning services on behalf of site plan/variance applications. In addition to reviewing zoning regulations and master plans for these applications, Dresdner Robin regularly provides expert testimony to Zoning Board of Adjustments or Planning Boards.

Dresdner Robin also offers the capabilities to provide concept plan development. After collecting data through site reconnaissance and potentially conducting visioning sessions, we evaluate physical elements such as building height, massing, view corridors, street frontage, open space and mix of land uses to develop concept plans. The concept plans are further modified in consultation with private developers and municipal officials resulting in a plan that meets local needs while maintaining economic viability.