At 7gen, we dedicate ourselves to understanding your vision and examining every means of making that vision a livable reality. Planning provides for the opportunity to do just that, and to create safer and better communities with a lasting value. As planners, we serve our clients through collaboration by working with government officials, business leaders and community input to ensure the final result is a beautiful, sustainable community that enriches people’s lives where they live, work and play.
A beautiful, livable, workable and enduring design is the goal for every Master-Planned Community. (MPC) Our land planners have extensive experience in creating MPCs ranging from a few hundred acres to more than 10,000 acres. We take into consideration the very factors that make MPCs distinctive from subdivisions, such as:
Ensuring a cohesive design for Master-Planned communities is essential for a result that appeals to your potential buyers and is profitable for you.
7gen develops land plans that provide options for clients to manage the development of their land while furthering the welfare of communities. We strive to meet these objectives with every plan by conducting a systematic assessment of the sites potential, safeguarding the community’s natural resources, identifying alternatives for land use, and optimizing economic and social conditions. This process is used to select and present the best land-use options to our clients. The culmination is a plan that provides for sustainable, healthful, and attractive environments for present and future generations.
Our work on parks, and park system planning, highlights and builds on what nature already created, yielding designs that aren’t just beautiful, they’re thoughtful and ready to delight visitors for generations. That’s why we consider it to be a first step in envisioning the future. Through collaboration with our clients (municipalities developers, etc.), we determine the goals, visions and aspirations for the park development. The results of this effort determine the course of the comprehensive plan details, including facilities, size and intended uses. Because our plans’ vision never stops at the Grand Opening, we include a long-range plan meant to shape the direction, development and delivery of parks for years to come.
With each project that we undertake as planners and landscape architects, we are committed to a beautiful design that stands on a solid analysis. As part of our technical and scientific arsenal, we navigate county, city, state and federal policies, ordinances, legislation and court rulings to understand how they might affect our clients’ projects. The opportunities and constraints developed during this process are the foundation upon which we begin the artistic planning and design. We then take the analysis of these opportunities and constraints to the artistic side of planning and design, so that we may best chart our course for achieving our clients’ vision.
7gen excels in landscape architecture that marries bold, eye-catching design with careful research, preparation and management, resulting in a well-planned union of natural and manmade elements. With a balance of artistic and technical skills, along with scientific, cultural and political expertise, we demonstrate a strong concern for the stewardship, conservation and balance of natural, constructed and human resources. The resulting environments don’t just enhance our view for today, they also serve useful, aesthetic, safe and enjoyable purposes as well as the promise of respecting our land’s resources for tomorrow.
At 7gen, we dedicate ourselves to understanding your vision and examining every means of making that vision a livable reality. Planning provides for the opportunity to do just that, and to create safer and better communities with a lasting value. As planners, we serve our clients through collaboration by working with government officials, business leaders and community input to ensure the final result is a beautiful, sustainable community that enriches people’s lives where they live, work and play.
A beautiful, livable, workable and enduring design is the goal for every Master-Planned Community. (MPC) Our land planners have extensive experience in creating MPCs ranging from a few hundred acres to more than 10,000 acres. We take into consideration the very factors that make MPCs distinctive from subdivisions, such as:
Ensuring a cohesive design for Master-Planned communities is essential for a result that appeals to your potential buyers and is profitable for you.
7gen develops land plans that provide options for clients to manage the development of their land while furthering the welfare of communities. We strive to meet these objectives with every plan by conducting a systematic assessment of the sites potential, safeguarding the community’s natural resources, identifying alternatives for land use, and optimizing economic and social conditions. This process is used to select and present the best land-use options to our clients. The culmination is a plan that provides for sustainable, healthful, and attractive environments for present and future generations.
Our work on parks, and park system planning, highlights and builds on what nature already created, yielding designs that aren’t just beautiful, they’re thoughtful and ready to delight visitors for generations. That’s why we consider it to be a first step in envisioning the future. Through collaboration with our clients (municipalities developers, etc.), we determine the goals, visions and aspirations for the park development. The results of this effort determine the course of the comprehensive plan details, including facilities, size and intended uses. Because our plans’ vision never stops at the Grand Opening, we include a long-range plan meant to shape the direction, development and delivery of parks for years to come.
With each project that we undertake as planners and landscape architects, we are committed to a beautiful design that stands on a solid analysis. As part of our technical and scientific arsenal, we navigate county, city, state and federal policies, ordinances, legislation and court rulings to understand how they might affect our clients’ projects. The opportunities and constraints developed during this process are the foundation upon which we begin the artistic planning and design. We then take the analysis of these opportunities and constraints to the artistic side of planning and design, so that we may best chart our course for achieving our clients’ vision.
7gen excels in landscape architecture that marries bold, eye-catching design with careful research, preparation and management, resulting in a well-planned union of natural and manmade elements. With a balance of artistic and technical skills, along with scientific, cultural and political expertise, we demonstrate a strong concern for the stewardship, conservation and balance of natural, constructed and human resources. The resulting environments don’t just enhance our view for today, they also serve useful, aesthetic, safe and enjoyable purposes as well as the promise of respecting our land’s resources for tomorrow.
Low Impact Design (LID) refers to managing stormwater runoff at the source (on-site) using green infrastructure techniques. Keeping water on-site reduces the need for much larger and more costly management systems. It also helps prevent flooding by reducing the amount of water that enters surface waterways during flash flood events. Conventional stormwater management uses a … Continue reading What Is Low Impact Design (LID)?
One of the first steps of every project is analyzing the site’s existing environmental conditions. Some of these conditions are regulated by city, state and/or federal agencies and can potentially kill your project before it ever begins. Too many existing protected or heritage trees may prevent a building from being able to fit on site. … Continue reading Environmental Constraints Aren’t Always Bad
As land planners, 7gen starts every project looking at the opportunities and constraints provided by the land along with the related regulating government authorities’ (RGA’s) codes and ordinances. The land’s terrain plays a major role in the project’s design when these opportunities and constraints are considered along with the RGA’s codes and ordinances. Extreme flat … Continue reading Working with Terrain
Nearly every community in the Houston region will include a water plant, wastewater plant, lift stations and detention ponds. So why is it that these necessary components are so negatively visible in some communities — and almost invisible in others? In rare instances, some of these components actually work to beautify and enhance communities! So what’s the … Continue reading Plant Facilities and Detention
There are many occasions in which a first meeting with a developer is spent processing the numerous reasons a plan (that was initially done by the engineers or architects) is not meeting the needs of the developer’s project vision and goals. Many developers attempt to minimize costs during the due diligence phase by having these … Continue reading Why You Should Hire a Professional Planner
So, you have been looking for that great piece of property for your next, or maybe your first, Master-Planned Community (MPC) to develop. How do you know which one to pull the trigger on? There are many things to consider of course, and of those, the following five elements have continued to be either an … Continue reading Consider This Before Starting A Master-Planned Community
Shawn Massock, RLA has been promoted to Partner. Mr. Massock has 28 years of experience in land planning and landscape architecture with a core focus on the integration of built and natural environments. He has worked on a wide variety of public, private, local, regional, and international projects involving master-planned communities, mixed-use communities, retail/commercial sites, resorts, … Continue reading Shawn Massock Promoted to Partner
7gen Planning is pleased to announce the opening of two offices in Texas, one in Austin (1016 La Posada Dr., Suite 288, Austin, Texas 78752) and the other in Houston (9990 Richmond Ave., Suite 450N, Houston, Texas 77042). These office locations were strategically selected to better serve our clients throughout the state.About 7gen Planning 7gen … Continue reading 7gen Opens Offices in Austin and Houston, Texas