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Smith Planning Group Company Profile Trusted. Experienced. Since 1989. Company Information Smith Planning Group LLC (SPG) 1022 Twelve Oaks Place, Suite 201 Watkinsville, GA 30677 Phone (706) 769-9515 Fax (706) 769-9595 www.smithplanninggroup.com Smith Planning Group, LLC is a Georgia Corporation Twenty-Six (26) Years in Business An Introduction to Smith Planning Group Founded in 1989, Smith Planning Group is a civil engineering, land planning, and landscape architecture firm with offices located just outside Athens, Georgia. The goal of our firm is to facilitate the creation of spaces with lasting value for the communities that they serve. Smith Planning Group accomplishes these goals by designing spaces that complement its unique environment while being historically respectful, environmentally sustainable and economically prosperous. Smith Plan- ning Group welcomes work opportunities that offer complex and creative challenges, that deliver valuable, long-term benefits for a wide range of community interests, combine and foster a local sense of place, and improve the relationship between people and their environment. Smith Planning Group’s professional team spans three key disciplines: civil engineer- ing, master planning, and landscape architecture. Our technical staff specializes in project management, permitting, construction documentation, specification writing, bid facilitation, and construction oversight. The diversity of our practice helps us clearly define issues and identify practical courses of action. We believe that plan making is a collaborative effort involving a diversity of stakeholders, and are commit- ted to active participation in the planning process. Company Stability & Experience For over 25 years, Smith Planning Group has had the privilege of working with a diverse and distinguished collection of clients in both public and private sectors. Smith Planning Group has provided services to multiple universities and colleges, municipalities, non-profit groups and institutions as well as corporate franchises and private developers. Markets We Serve We have a critical understanding of the need of your project to maintain tight schedules, timelines and budgets. Since our roots are in master planning and engineering, we are able to provide a highly experi- enced and seasoned approach to the project. This is what sets us apart from our competitors. Below are some of the diverse project types we have successfully completed: . Mixed-Use & Retail Municipal Services College & University . Industrial & Commercial Municipal Institutional . Parks & Recreation Fuel & Convenience Educational . Food Service Student Housing Medical Services We Offer Smith Planning Group is a full service planning firm with extensive experience providing planning, design and engineering services including landscape design, irrigation and project management. We have worked on large and small scale projects with multi-disciplinary teams during the planning, design, bid, and build phases. Smith Planning Group offersservices in the following areas: Civil Engineering Municipal Services Site Engineering Urban Design Grading & Drainage Parks & Recreation Stormwater Management & Hydrology Reports Programming and Design Floodplain Mapping & Consulting (LOMA, Streetscape Design LOMR) GIS Mapping & Analysis Utility Design Project & Construction Management Septic Design Historic Preservation Traffic Analysis Multi-Use Trail Design Bid Administration Community Engagement & Leadership Cost Estimates Land Acquisition Consulting Construction Observation Project Close-Out Environmental Design Natural Resource Inventories Land Planning & Landscape Architecture Wetland Delineation Master Planning Stream Identification Rezoning Floodplain Mitigation Development Consultation & Due Diligence Site Feasibility Analysis Stream Buffer Variances Site Design & Programming 404 Permitting Landscape Design Amenity Design Community Engagement Design Charrettes Charles R. (Bob) Smith, RLA, ASLA Founder, Managing Principal Telephone: (706) 769 9515 Email: [email protected] Bob Smith is a Registered Landscape Architect and owner LECTURES & PUBLICATIONS of Smith Planning Group. Bob draws upon his 25 years of Bob frequently lectures on land-use issues and land- experience in planning and design to create spaces of scape architecture. Recent talks have focused on urban lasting value to the client. As an expert in site design, design, traditional neighborhood developments, mixed- land planning and development, Bob prepares plans that use developments, downtown revitalization and afforda- are environmentally sensitive, ecologically sustainable ble housing. Bob has served as a panelist at New Part- and economically successful. ners for Smart Growth and guest lecturer at the Center for Quality Growth in Watkinsville, GA. Publications As founder and managing principal, Bob is responsible for include residential and commercial design guidelines for a wide range of domestic and international projects that mixed-use projects and Pattern Books for Master include town planning, urban design projects, infill devel- Planned Developments. Bob has also served as an in- opments, mixed-use developments, recreational develop- structor of landscape design at Athens Technical College ments, campus planning, and landscape development. in Athens, Georgia. He uses this experience during the community design process to help develop consensus and public approvals LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS in often complex situations. State of Georgia, Registered Landscape Architect Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission, Level Bob also serves as a consultant to municipalities regarding II Certified Design Professional land-use codes, regulations and park design. EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Young Harris College, Associate Degree Congress for the New Urbanism The University of Georgia, Landscape Architecture and American Society of Landscape Architects Environmental Design Ed Lane, P.E. , M. ASCE Senior Project Engineer Telephone: (706) 769 9515 Email: [email protected] Ed Lane has over 10 years of experience in the de- sign and management of civil engineering projects. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS He has developed expertise in environmental engi- American Society of Civil Engineers neering and garnered noted experience in working Georgia Society of Professional Engineers with municipalities and governmental agencies to design and implement viable engineering solutions. LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS He has strong organizational and communications State of Georgia, Professional Engineer License Number 035656 skills that have enabled him to serve as civil engi- neering project manager on large and complex pro- EDUCATION jects. University of Georgia, BS in Agricultural Engineering, Structural Systems Emphasis Ed has worked in various engineering roles which have enabled him to develop extensive and diversi- fied knowledge of principles and practices in broad areas of assignments and in related fields. Some of his tasks have included: Complete project design, project management, cost estimation, preparing site analysis reports, environment studies, traffic studies, preparing soil erosion control plans, hydrology stud- ies, underground utility engineering and preparing full site construction documents. His experience in- cludes the areas of wetland delineation, Environ- mental Protection Division (EPD) permitting, U.S. Ar- my Corps of Engineers (USACE) permitting, Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) permitting, Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) per- mitting and Stream Identification Protocol. He has provided design and construction observation ser- vices for a wide range of project types. Ed was raised in Campinas, Brazil. He attended the University of Georgia where he graduated with an Agricultural Engineering degree. Master Planning & Site Design Master Planning & Site Design Landscape Architecture Civil Engineering Construction Administration Click To Launch Video In Your Browser Parks & Recreation Industrial & Commercial Smith Planning Group has successfully completed a multitude of projects in the industrial and commercial business sectors. We are experienced in working with franchisees and corporate franchise offices. We understand the importance of working under critical project timelines and budgets while participating on a multi-disciplinary team. The list below showcases a selection of some recent pro- ject completed in these market sectors: Industrial Fabritex Hartwell, GA AgStrong Oils Bowersville, GA Hart AgStrong Bowersville, GA J&J Chemical Crawford, GA James Greenhouses Crawford, GA Central Labeling Products Athens, GA Bishop Warehouses Watkinsville, GA Zero Gravity Plant Nicholson, GA Commercial Steak n' Shake Athens, GA Tractor Supply Athens, GA Hubee D's Athens, GA Blind Pig Tavern Athens, GA Market Center Oconee, GA Summit Capital Watkinsville, GA Subway Arcade, GA Sweet Pepper Deli Athens, GA Legacy Business Park Oconee, GA Fast Phil Station Farmington & Lexington, GA Sentry Storage Athens, GA Oconee Storage Oconee, GA Summerhill Oconee, GA Windridge Office Park Oconee, GA Educational Athletics University of Georgia Dan McGill Tennis Complex (Landscape & Irrigation) UGA Equestrian Center (Landscape & Irrigation) Butts-Mehre Football Practice Fields (Landscape & Irrigation) Foley Baseball Field (Landscape & Irrigation) Spec Towns Track (Landscape & Irrigation) Trial Gardens (Design) Turner Soccer Complex (Consultation) Ramsey Center Quad (Landscape Design)