Jim Leggitt, FAIA has more than forty years experience working with communities on revitalization efforts, corridor planning, urban placemaking and communicating those creative ideas with quick sketches, hybrid drawings and 3D computer models. Most projects involve direct public engagement in the form of community planning workshops which occur “on site” over a period of several days. Jim Leggitt has participated in dozens of successful community planning workshops throughout Colorado and the West.
Jim Leggitt, FAIA
COMMUNITY PLANNING WORKSHOPS
Community Planning Workshops, often called charrettes are an organized team approach to public engagement establishing local identity, assets and opportunities, gathering input from community residents and stakeholders, and then generating ideas that best address those identified needs. Jim Leggitt’s role in most community planning projects is to support the primary planning consultant by identifying numerous design ideas, assisting with information gathering through mapping and photography, and developing a series of sketches, computers 3D models and colored drawings that best communicate those ideas.