Planning & development:

Implementing strong, sustainable visions

At MSA, we apply our many talents to one goal – achieving a strong, sustainable, implementable vision for the future of your community. We will help you bring all stakeholders to the table to explore your long- and short-term challenges and opportunities. We pride ourselves on creating useful, user-friendly plans with clear action commitments. Core services include:

• Smart growth planning, developing comprehensive plans that address all key smart growth principles and any statutorily-required elements
• Strategic plans, which link comprehensive plans with action-oriented strategies and short-term goals
• Community development and financing, which takes advantage of federal, state, and creative financing programs to make housing and public facility improvements possible
• Economic development and analysis
• Geographic information systems (GIS) services
• Ordinances and zoning regulations
• Transportation planning
• Land use planning
• Brownfield redevelopment planning and funding
  
   

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Downtown design standards, Cross Plains, Wisconsin

Cross Plains, Wisconsin downtown design standards encourage use of existing infrastructure and previously-developed land to protect the nearby creek, even as downtown density increases.