"Everything in its place. I help you make it timely and timeless."

Howard advocates time-tested planning strategies that are proven to add value to communities one neighborhood, one block, and one building at a time. He looks beyond conventional short-term horizons, and uses neo-traditional urban design to provide needed predictability in the development process.

Howard accepts the urban challenge to create the legal parameters for attractive, cohesive, and economically successful mixed use blocks in an urban environment. His collaborative placemaking principle is to simply accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. Our public process finds the best features of a place so as to protect and build upon them. In doing so, we ensure new design interventions to connect places in ways that fulfill the vision of local residents and jurisdictions. Planning decisions are not only value-based but are identity-based. The re-development of cities is deeply connected to the history and politics of perception in which the place is simultaneously liberating, constraining, and manipulative. With this in mind, we suggest a very public approach to the entitlement process that includes the design charrette or workshop, followed by a series of meetings with various stakeholders in order to gain support for a three-dimensional design program.

Howard attended the University of Texas for his undergraduate degree (where he also played football), and has a graduate degree from University of Westminster in London, and a certificate in Master Planning from from Harvard. He lives in San Diego with his wife and two daughters. He is currently working on the City of San Diego Pedestrian Master Plan.

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h o w a r d @ p l a c e m a k e r s . c o m