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Nisenson Consulting

Integrating Water & Land Development Codes

If you are a State, City or County representative seeking expertise in multi-objective land use & stormwater ordinances, click here.

If you are a land use, stormwater, or watershed consulting firm seeking a smart growth, stormwater, and land use planning and codes partner, click here.

Is Your Community:

Struggling to develop stormwater ordinances that are cost-effective to write and implement?

Facing unexpected barriers to redevelopment and smart growth within stormwater ordinances?

Facing conflicts between comprehensive plans that seek to build compactly, but stormwater codes that are land consumptive?

Looking for creative ways to use the new stormwater ordinances to meet several economic development, housing and environmental goals?

Your community is not alone. Across the country, communities large and small are facing the challenge of developing policies, ordinances and long term plans to meet environmental, community and economic development goals. These tasks have only grown with the addition of new rules to manage stormwater and develop watershed plans.

Nisenson Consulting can assist cities and counties, as well as planning firms, in developing innovative policies, program elements and model code language to support growth management, smart growth and redevelopment/revitalization efforts.

Company Philosophy

Joint water and land use policies can support environmental protection by:

Directing development to already developed landscapes.
Reducing land disturbance and the development footprint of redevelopment and new development by mixing uses, developing compactly, and augmenting gray infrastructure with green practices to reduce the impacts of stormwater runoff.
Assessing environmental benefits at the site level, sub-basin and watershed level simultaneously.
Allowing communities to “take credit” within water regulations for smart growth and redevelopment policies that effectively absorb growth on a less intrusive development footprint.

Contact:
Lisa Nisenson
Nisenson Consulting
1549 Ringling Boulevard
6th Floor
Sarasota, Florida 34236
Phone/Fax: 941-822-0338
Email: lisa@nisenson.net