As community residents and leaders come together to imagine and create a vision for the future, a plan becomes the necessary and important tool to guide the process to successful fruition.
Master Planning (also known as Comprehensive Planning) provides an overall strategy and design to guide a community's total development in a manner best suited to its current assets and future desires.
Recreation Planning (in Michigan) is generally a five-year plan guiding the growth and development of a community's park, recreation, open space, and greenway system.
Environmental Planning involves the study and mitigation of factors affecting a community's natural resources.
Transportation Planning involves local, regional, state, and federal officials working together to create and maintain a complete, comprehensive, and cooperative multimodal system.
The Southwest Michigan Planning Commission is also equipped with professional staff capable of a variety of other community-related studies or planning ventures. (Examples are available under "Other Studies and Planning Projects")
