Environmental Staff Services

Since 1995, we have offered environmental and planning staff services to local and regional agencies within central and northern California. For these clients we act as both environmental and planning staff in the review of both public and private projects that come before the agencies. As planning staff, we prepare staff reports, make recommendations, and represent our client agency before decision makers. As environmental staff we conduct environmental reviews, prepare environmental documents, oversee outside consultants, administer the environmental process, and enforce environmental laws and regulations. Past and current clients served in this way include: the City of Folsom, the City of Stockton, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Sacramento County, Sacramento LAFCo, Merced County, Tulare County, and the Federal Highway Administration, Central Federal Lands Highway Division. Additionally, many of our client agencies retain us for multiple projects over a period of years without formal agreement. Such agencies include the City of Marysville, the Citrus Heights Water District, the Olivehurst Public Utilities District, and Calaveras County.

Sacramento LAFCo

Since 1999 Planning Partners has been providing environmental staffing services to Sacramento LAFCo. During this time we have assisted the Commission in working with local governments and special districts to coordinate the environmental review process, provided responsible agency comments on environmental documents prepared by local lead agencies, reviewed the environmental effects of proposed activities submitted to the Commission for review, prepared appropriate CEQA documents, and acted as Commission management staff for large, joint environmental documents prepared by local governments for projects requiring both local government and LAFCo entitlements.