PUBLIC SECTOR CLIENTS

1.  Land Use Regulatory Administration 
   
   

• Inspect and monitor land uses subject to regulatory authority and permits; encourage and enforce regulatory compliance and permit conditions.  
   
• Organize applications and land use cases for efficient processing and decision making.
   
• Coordinate design, review, and decision process for larger land use proposals.  Improve outcomes with timely communication among stakeholders. 
  
  
• Oversee contract performance for land use related work. 
   
• Coordinate the efficient use of professionals and contractors. 
   

   2.  Planning and Policy Analysis
 

• Analyze Land Use and Environmental Policies:  Research, advise, and provide editorial work to align policy objectives, regulations, and administrative actions, with a coherent framework of economic, social, and environmental sustainability criteria (e.g. LEED ND).
  
  
• Analyze and improve systems for productive access to information on government processes to help align goals, policy, practice, and results. 
  
  
• Develop criteria to compare government objectives with outcomes. Evaluate performance of environmental regulatory and administrative systems, and compare to strategies used in other agencies or towns.
  
  

Policy Sciences Framework: (Adapted from “The Policy Process,” Tim W. Clark, 2002)

Six elements of the policy sciences:

• Recognize a single moral goal; or shared values.
  
  
• Map Social Process: Participants, perspectives, situations, values, strategies, effects.
  
  
• Understand the standpoints of participants and observers
  
  
• Problem orientation:  Clarify goals, describe trends, analyze conditions, project developments, and invent, evaluate, and select alternatives.
  
  
• Use multiple methods to gather, interpret, integrate information, for perspective, experience, insight.
  
  
• Organize a decision process