Residents: Are you a community resident who is concerned about the effect that a proposed project will have on the quality of your life and your property values? If so, collaborative planning is a viable, step-by-step process that you can use to change the project plans so that the project improves your life, increases your property values, and reduces traffic congestion.

Developer: Are you a developer who is concerned about an expensive and protracted permitting process that may wind up in the courts? Collaborative planning provides a way for you to use your development expertise to work with the city, local residents, and environmental experts so that your project steadily improves and consistently gains public support through an efficient and even enjoyable approval process.

Environmentalist: Are you an environmentalist who is dismayed by Sprawl and the damage it is causing to the environment? Is there a particular project in your community where the planning board, residents, or the developer don't seem to be hearing you? Collaborative planning gives you a way to insure that your voice is heard, and provides an effective way to redesign proposed projects so that they actually solve existing environmental problems. When there is confrontation and even litigation, collaborative planning has been shown to resolve conflict and yield a revised project that helps the environment, where the original project had hurt the environment.

Planning Board: Are you a planning board member who wishes that your work would achieve more productive improvement of your community with shorter, less controversial meetings? Collaborative planning is an effective technique for coordinating the energy and unifying the expertise of the public, developers, and environmentalists to help the planning board efficiently generate truly beneficial projects.

Planner: Are you a planner who would like to help create projects that incorporate the best ideas for community improvement? Collaborative planning is a step-by-step process you can use to achieve stakeholder agreement on profitable projects that truly enhance the community.

Realtor: Are you a realtor who avoids developable properties because closings can be complex, risky, and time-consuming? Collaborative planning is a tool that you can use to smoothly get to closing on tough development projects while forging new friendships and improving local selling prices.

Attorney: Are you an attorney who wishes that land development did not have to be such an adversarial proceeding? You can use collaborative planning to settle litigation in a way that not only satisfies the litigants but actually improves the proposed project for the community.

Business person: Are you a business person who wants to build a new headquarters building or manufacturing plant? Collaborative planning is a technique that you can use to work together with the community and build good will as you get your permits.