Brighton 2025: Chalkboard Vision Portraits
by Tanya Zwahlen Here are a few of my favorite photos from last night's first public meeting for the Brighton Comprehensive Plan update.
Fair House Choice in New York State
by Tanya Zwahlen For the past eight weeks, we've been conducting public outreach for New York's Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (or "AI," for short). We've facilitated 17…
World Cafe in Webster
Today we had the opportunity to facilitate a special event with the Webster Chamber of Commerce on behalf of one of our newest clients, the Webster Community Coalition for Economic…
Bollywood Sugar
by Tanya Zwahlen I can't stop talking about our new Wall\Therapy mural. Do you know about Wall\Therapy? It's a Rochester-based public community-level intervention that "uses mural art as a vehicle to address our collective…
The Future is Now
by Tanya Zwahlen On Thursday, June 25th, Sue Hopkins, a planner at Bergmann Associates, and I facilitated a futurology brainstorm at the Region 1 American Planning Assocation Conference in Saratoga Springs, NY.…
America’s Best Communities
by Tanya Zwahlen We are very excited to announce that we are supporting the Webster Community Coalition for Economic Development (WCCED) in their effort to be named one of America’s Best Communities. This…
2015 Show On Monroe Recap
by Tanya Zwahlen On Saturday, May 30th, Highland Planning helped support the Monroe Avenue merchants in hosting the third annual Show on Monroe. The day-long event highlights all that is unique…
Clean Sweeping the City of Rochester
by Tanya Zwahlen and Jen Topa On Saturday, May 2, 2015, Highland Planning took part in another successful Clean Sweep event. For the past few years, as part of our Street…
New Home of Highland Planning
by Tanya Zwahlen It's April, the snow has melted, and we are settled into our new office at 820 South Clinton Avenue. I need to share photos before I spill…
An Ode to RTS
by Tanya Zwahlen This week, all three of us rode RTS buses throughout Monroe County to administer customer satisfaction surveys on behalf of the regional transit authority. We are a subconsultant to Abt…