Working on Area Development Plans (ADP) with HB&A:

Today’s fiscal climate requires community planners to provide documents that are creative but straightforward, focused on near-term cost savings and execution, but still visionary. A sharply focused, well-executed Area Development Plan is the best tool for:

  • Responding to the local implications of centralized decision-making 

  • Addressing increasing pressure to shrink, consolidate, and reduce footprint without MILCON

  • Building buy-in for planning decisions among installation stakeholders

  • Getting projects started along the planning and programming ramp

The HB&A team is dedicated to producing ADPs that are:

  • Efficient – Affordable enough to justify and quick enough to maintain relevance and momentum. 

  • User-Driven – A deep sense of ownership by the entire installation community.

  • Ideologically Neutral – Our role is to listen to the priorities of installation stakeholders, not to push new fads or ideas on your installation.

Approach

HB&A brings a unique, deliberate, thorough, and creative approach to each ADP centered around an effective and engaging charrette week.

1) Laying the GroundWork

Through our experience, we have found that ADPs requires a unique approach.  Our team invests lots of time and resources upfront in understanding the installation, the district, the users, and the client’s product expectations. The up-front work that we do builds a strong foundation for the plan and builds credibility with participants.

2) MAKING A PLAN

This up-front work leads to an onsite, multi-day charrette. As the key formative moment for every ADP, the charrette structure will vary for each ADP, but the key elements that distinguish an HB&A charrette include:

  • Planning 101 Overview

  • Project Priorities Exercise

  • Participant Field Study

  • Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT)

  • Vision Generation Exercises

  • Goals and Objectives Identification

  • Alternatives Development

  • Alternatives Evaluation

  • Preferred Alternative Refinement 

  • Charrette Summary Outbrief

3) Showing Results

Following the development of the key products during the charrette week, HB&A polishes the ADP document, adds explanatory and illustrative graphics, and fully develops the regulating plan, planning standards, and the phasing plan.