Land Planning

Drake Consultants specialize implementing high quality land use planning utilizing decision modeling and multi-criteria, multi-objective methods for local communities or conservation organizations. 

Once constructed, these GIS based planning tools allow customers to continually update and refine their land use plan as new data becomes available. These tools make it easy to look at multiple planning scenarios before committing resources. Planners, and the general public can provide input on which factors to consider and how to weight those factors.

What is Multi-criteria, Multi-objective planning (MCMOP)

• MCMOP planning allows many factors and viewpoints to be considered in the planning process
• MCMOP can be used as a tool to bring together divergent viewpoints 
• MCMOP allows user defined factors and weights for "What if" scenarios that represent a diversity of viewpoints 
• MCMOP simultaneously considers and balances many factors such as land and soil capability, important land uses, taxation structures, and utility and service locations . 

Specialized to allows communities, agencies and organizations of any size to take advantage of high tech planning tools with minimal training