MICHAEL LAUER PLANNING, LLC
MELBOURNE BEACH, FLORIDA

Michael Lauer, AICP, Principal of Michael Lauer Planning, LLC, has served local governments from coast to coast over the last 33 years; he has developed and helped implement numerous award-winning growth management programs for urban and rural jurisdictions. In addition to developing comprehensive and strategic plans, he has developed plan implementation programs addressing agricultural preservation, redevelopment, concurrency management, development and design regulations. As a Principal and cofounder of Planning Works from 2000-2015 and Director of Planning for the law firm of Freilich, Leitner & Carlisle in the 1990s, Mr. Lauer gained unique insights on local governments’ successes and failures in managing growth and creating vibrant communities and neighborhoods. Prior to joining FLC, he worked for Georgetown, Texas, where he helped develop an award-winning plan linked to a GIS-based infrastructure capacity allocation program. After 15 years with Planning Works, I’m now managing projects under a new company name. Michael Lauer Planning will continue to help you develop comprehensive, neighborhood, corridor and strategic plans; meaningfully engage stakeholders in shaping their futures; draft zoning, subdivision, design or form-based regulations; and pursue other strategies to take your community from vision to reality. Michael Lauer Planning Ensure that affected stakeholders are engaged in the development and implementation of plans and codes to develop a sense of ownership that arises from knowing that they will help the community realize its vision in ways that are consistent with local needs, values and resources. Draft defensible, usable development regulations that facilitate desired development. We tailor our development codes to address community and neighborhood-specific issues. We also provide continuing support in the forms of code maintenance services, site plan review assistance and a wide variety of other plan implementation measures.