Planning & Permitting
HWA's planning staff offers extensive permitting and planning experience and expertise for your project. As experts in SEPA and NEPA strategy development, compliance, and documentation; HWA staff have applied these skills to a variety of jurisdictional public projects, as well as private developments. HWA organizes and manages all disciplines required for Environmental Assessments, checklists, and Environmental Impact Statements and addresses projects through final document production, distribution, and public presentation and comment sessions.
Typical services related to environmental planning and permitting include:
- Environmental Assessments and Impact Statements
- Permitting
- Pre-development permit and approval appraisals
- Sustainable development planning
- GMA updates including development regulation, Critical Area Ordinances, and Best Available Science reviews
- Integrated natural resources management planning
- Environmental baseline surveys
- Public participation
- Land use code compliance
- Resource Management Plans
Selected project examples below, see Menu "Projects" tab for additional project descriptions:
King County Brightwater Conveyance Draft Environmental Impact Statement
Solid Waste Facility Environmental Impact Statement