Kendig Keast Collaborative

Kendig Keast Collaborative (KKC) is a multidisciplinary planning consultancy that works with towns, cities and counties on long-range plans and the regulations that implement them. It works from an office at 77 Sugar Creek Center Blvd., Suite 600, Sugar Land, Texas, and describes itself as a national practice; its map of project history covers 41 states to date.

The work spans zoning and land development regulations, comprehensive planning, special area and corridor plans, redevelopment and revitalization, parks and open space planning, economic development and urban design. Together the firm's principals and senior associates have facilitated comprehensive planning programs and zoning, subdivision or land development codes for more than 100 communities, for small villages, mid-sized towns, suburban cities, metropolitan areas and rural and urbanizing counties.

The firm also takes municipal, or on-call, engagements for local governments without the in-house planning staff to administer development activity or a newly adopted code. That work includes GIS and mapping, maintenance and official recording of a city's zoning map via enCode Plus and geodatabase files, pre-development consultation and review meetings, development guidebooks, agendas, staff reports and public notices, rules of procedure for new commissions and zoning boards of adjustment, meeting attendance and expert testimony, developer escrow accounting, and site visits for rezoning and conditional use applications.

Staff include certified planners (AICP), economic development specialists (CEcD), land use attorneys, GIS specialists, landscape architects, urban designers and graphic communications designers, and the firm states that firm principals are directly involved in all projects. Fees are by engagement; the firm asks for service type, location, background plans, timeline and goals with an inquiry and says it responds within one to two business days.