The LANI Model
The hallmark of LANI's program is our combination of expert project management with deep community outreach that empowers local stakeholders and generates substantive communal decision-making.
The LANI Model emphasizes engaging and empowering segments of the population that have historically been left out of traditional neighborhood planning processes, including:
youth
seniors
people with disabilities
people who are transit-dependent
non-English speakers
Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and other people of color
socioeconomically disadvantaged people.
We focus on educating stakeholders so that together we can efficiently balance varying interests with on-the-ground realities, political considerations, and constraints such as timeline and budget, resulting in completed projects with high levels of community support and satisfaction.
LANI has earned a strong reputation for expediting projects, and many public agencies choose to work with LANI because of our success in moving projects forward, even when there are bumps in the road. We work closely with a wide range of community organizations, contractors, public and private offices, and funding agencies, and we are adept at breaking up logjams in the event a project faces conflicts or controversy.