Our Services

Urban and Regional Planning
Elevating the invisible lines that shape our lives

  • Master planning, including housing, multi-modal, community revitalization, climate adaptation, and long-term resilience strategies

  • Local economic development initiatives including special financing districts, commercial overlays, and business incentive programs

  • Green infrastructure, low-impact development alternatives, and stormwater control measures

  • Community and stakeholder outreach and engagement

  • Local code drafting, land use studies and staff reports, planning and zoning permit review, public hearing facilitation

Grant & Program Management
Making every dollar count

  • Grants strategy development, identification, preparation, scoping, application, and management

  • Grant program development and management including rule and policy-making, program policy and procedure development, program launch, fund distribution, procurement, project evaluation, selection and award, compliance, monitoring and closeout

Recovery and Mitigation
Reframing the word ‘rebuild’

  • Technical and strategic disaster recovery consulting

  • Post-disaster staff augmentation and training for damage assessments, floodplain management, code enforcement, planning and zoning, permitting, records retrieval and digitization

  • Pre- and post-disaster emergency operations standard operating procedures (SOPs) and communication plans

  • Post-disaster FEMA NFIP compliant Substantial Damage Determinations

  • Policy development and implementation support to achieve long-term resilience objectives, in alignment with green infrastructure principles, available hazard mitigation data and modeling, FEMA CRS standards and point classifications

Government Administrative Support
We are in this together

  • Historic Preservation services including; completing historic surveys, preparing National Register of Historic Places applications, developing preservation grants, preservation plans for historic districts, downtown revitalization plans, and small area and corridor plans for municipalities and parishes

  • Issue-specific direct support and/or training series to enhance local capacity building for new administration, planning commissioner, police jury or council member and staff, re: grants development, code enforcement, planning, floodplain management

  • Project and capital improvement planning, procurement and procedures development, implementation support and assistance

  • GIS map development, data maintenance, file digitization, and data cleanup in support of improved data-based decision-making

  • Code Enforcement Administrative support, re: case review, attendance at adjudication hearings, supporting field staff determinations, updating relevant ordinances for enhanced efficiency

  • Local floodplain management assistance, mentorships, and trainings

  • Document management and records retention policy and implementation support

Strategic Implementation Services
Advancing smarter solutions unique to our time

  • Strategic, adaptation-specific research, analysis, and implementation leadership and support​

  • Business development and public service-oriented web-based automation services, online mapping, and focused integrations to work smarter, save time, and better utilize limited resources​

  • Advancement of co-developed solutions through thoughtful collaboration, partnership alignment, and task-specific, multi-year plans shaped by stakeholders where all partners have clear actions and directives

Evelyn Cade Campo, CFM, Deputy CEO - Desire Line

“We appreciate what makes your local places and people unique.”