City of Bellaire Comprehensive Plan Update

Gary Mitchell with Kendig Keast Collaborative will speak to us about the City of Bellaire Comprehensive Plan update process with an interactive presentation to find out how Bellaire residents and those associated with Bellaire perceive, use, and feel about the everyday spaces and special places where they live, work, learn, shop and play.

ABOUT GARY MITCHELL

Kendig Keast Collaborative (KKC) is a multidisciplinary planning consultancy composed of seasoned professionals who specialize in assisting towns, cities and counties envision, prepare for, and implement their community’s preferred future.

Gary has professional planning experience at the city, county and regional levels since 1989. In 2020, he was inducted into the 600+ member AICP College of Fellows. This is the highest honor the American Institute of Certified Planners bestows to recognize “model planners” whose leadership and individual efforts “left demonstrably significant and transformational improvements to the field of planning and the communities they served.” Over his career, Gary has had the opportunity to complete a wide variety of plans and special studies addressing: land use, transportation, growth management and annexation, housing, economic development, infrastructure, community facilities, public services, bicycle/pedestrian circulation, parking, downtown revitalization, neighborhood conservation, environmental and cultural resources, park systems and trail networks, historic preservation, urban design, and transit-supportive station area planning. His portfolio includes nearly 60 comprehensive plans – in communities ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 people – and his consulting work has taken him to 17 states (Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming) after he began his public sector career in New York. Since transitioning into consulting in 1999, 14 communities he has assisted have received awards from divisions of the American Planning Association (APA) as outstanding examples of urban planning.