Glencoe is a thriving community of almost 6,000 residents, located about an hour west of the Twin Cities on Highway 212. The City, offering a great mix of strong businesses, excellent schools, extensive parks, and great people, is poised to grow. Residents and leaders want to proactively work together to orient that growth so it meets residents' ideas and aspirations for their community.
Recent work
The city of Plymouth Minnesota is a thriving third-ring suburban community with a population of more then 80,000 people, making it the state's seventh largest city. One of the City's key strategic priorities is to redevelop and revitalize the geographic heart of the city into a walkable, vibrant, and pedestrian-friendly downtown. The City and its residents are focused on making changes that will keep and grow attraction for people to come into City Center to live, work, and play, shop, and eat.
The City of Rogers is a prosperous and growing community in northern Hennepin County, with a population of 13,150 residents. The city has grown rapidly, almost quadrupling in size since 2000, when its population was 3,600. Its downtown area is generally characterized by auto-oriented development with disconnected buildings, large parking lots, and low walkability, though it also includes a small finer-grained district with pedestrian-scaled storefronts, sidewalk-fronting buildings and historic façades.
Fergus Falls, a thriving community with a population of 13,500 residents in west-central Minnesota, is seeking to capitalize on its many assets - including its active advocacy community, its many trails, and compact size - to grow trips by foot or bike.
CDG developed the City's new Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan to focus on building an “All Ages and Abilities” walking and biking network - an ambitious goal for a small / rural community.
CDG is working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to develop the City of East Grand Forks Land Use Plan Update.
The Land Use Plan is a long-range guiding document for how the City will manage growth and development over the next 30 years. It is updated every 5 years to respond to changes within the community and includes a wide range of topics, including population and employment projections, housing, transportation, land use, and how to develop sustainably.
CDG is providing the following services toward development of the plan:
The City of Golden Valley is working to address the need for affordable housing for its existing and future residents. Recently, the City identified eight publicly-owned sites that it is considering for use as affordable housing.
CDG is working as part of a consultant team to develop a plan for engaging residents living in the vicinity of the parcels - and the city overall - to participate in a design conversation about the configuration of each of the specific sites as well as for discussion of general affordable housing topics.
The City of Edina Comprehensive Plan identified the need to develop several hundred units of housing in the city, including both market-rate housing and housing at a price point that young families interested in moving to the community can afford.
The City sought to engage community members, residents, and developers in a transparent and community-supported process to develop specific guidance and recommendations for how to implement the housing recommendations from its Comprehensive Plan.
The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) provides an organizing vision and direction for all of the State of North Dakota's transportation investments and initiatives over the next twenty years.
CDG is leading all pedestrian and bicycle-related components of the LRTP, working as part of the multi-disciplinary team selected by NDDOT for this effort.
CDG's work includes:
We're working with local partners to develop three new bikeways in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico. The bikeways will provide important safety and connectivity improvements across the city, and are part of a larger, currently planned network of fifteen major bikeways. The bikeways feature latest safety and user comfort features informed by guidance from NACTO and the Ciclociudades manual (jointly developed by ITDP Mexico and the Dutch Bicycle Embassy).
Marshalltown Iowa is the county seat for Marshall County and a prosperous community of about 28,000 people located in central Iowa. In the summer of 2018 it was hit by a category EF3 tornado with winds of 145 mph which caused severe damage in multiple areas of the community, including the city's historic Main Street District and surrounding residential neighborhoods.