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he Missouri River Ecosystem Restoration Plan (MRERP)
process is an ambitious project spanning a 2,300-mile river system, six
mainstem dams, and seven states.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
is leading this effort to produce a long-term river management, restoration,
mitigation, and recovery plan for the entire Missouri River Basin.
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PlaceMatters is working on a team led by Goody Clancy to help Wichita, Kansas to create a Revitalization Master Plan for downtown. PlaceMatters will be focusing on using online tools, mobile technologies, and the AnyWare suite of tools for public meetings to help Wichita citizens create a common vision for the revitalization of their downtown.
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PlaceMatters and Civil Resources are working with the Town of Lyons to update their comprehensive plan. The Town is especially interested in revitalizing the downtown, making it a destination instead of a place to drive through to reach the mountains.
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PlaceMatters worked with Civil Resources, 
LLC to update the comprehensive plan for the Town of Ault, Colorado. PlaceMatters’ “Community Future by Design” process allowed citizens to experiment with various land uses and densities on maps of the community and see the impact results in CommunityViz.
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From March to May 2008, PlaceMatters worked in partnership with Placeways, LLC and the Local Government Commission (LGC) to develop and deliver an interactive, educational workshop for citizens of Amador and Calaveras Counties in California. The workshop attracted about 100 members of the community and took advantage of CommunityViz analysis, keypad polling, and hands-on mapping exercises, all supplemented with expert lectures, to help citizens understand interactions between land use and water.
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PlaceMatters assisted the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) with their update to MetroPlan, the 1990 regional plan for Metropolitan Boston, which covers 101 cities and towns in northeastern Massachusetts. PlaceMatters' work on the visioning process, incorporating a wide range of people, organizations, and public participation tools, resulted in a “tapestry of visions” that celebrates the diversity in place and opinion.
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By the time the 44th President takes office, the window of opportunity to prevent economic and environmental hardships and increasing global tensions due to climate change will be one-third gone. The people of the United States, as well as other nations, will be looking for an early indication of whether the President intends to lead the world’s largest energy-consuming and greenhouse-gas emitting nation on a responsible course of action.
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PlaceMatters worked with partners to develop a comprehensive, innovative, community-scale model for energy efficiency and sustainable resource management for the 15,000-acre Otay Ranch development in Chula Vista, California. This transit-oriented development, just south of San Diego, includes 3-6 villages being built to accommodate 70,000 additional residents in 23,732 new dwelling units within the next 15 years.
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PlaceMatters worked with several partners on the Philadelphia LANDvisions project to help citizens envision a future for the city's vacant lands. With over 40, 000 vacant properties, Philadelphia had become one of the nation's foremost examples of urban abandonment and sprawl. The lands were fertile ground for imagining solutions that use ecology to shape urban form and inspire change.
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VISION 2015 was a community planning initiative that helped define the future of Northern Kentucky by producing a 10-year strategic blueprint that builds upon its parent, the QUEST VISION, launched in 1995. Five action teams addressed critical issues related to economic competitiveness, education excellence, effective governance, livable communities and urban renaissance.
kml network link, if you have Google Earth installed.
