Riverside Master Planning Process:
An Experienced Team + Citizen Involvement

All opportunities come with great responsibility. The first moves made in large scale development or redevelopment projects often set the direction and quality for subsequent work. The City established a Master Planning Team to provide guidance and a strategic framework from which to lead development.

The Team
In the early part of 2006, the City of Riverside put together an experienced Planning Team to help continue recent progress and to create a map for the next phase of the City's redevelopment in a Comprehensive Master Plan:

Armstrong Teasdale LLP ~ Law Firm
BNIM Architects ~ Architectural Firm
Shafer, Kline, and Warren, Inc. ~ Engineers
Development Strategies ~ Market Analysts
ETC Institute ~ Community Surveys
Cook, Flatt, and Strobel ~ Engineers

Each of the team members contributed uniquely to the overall process. ETC and the rest of the Planning Team created a questionnaire that went to every resident of Riverside. The feedback we received from the survey provided the baseline for many of the planning and community improvement recommendations. Download the results of the ETC Survey as an Adobe Acrobat PDF document. Development Strategies provided important information about the economic situation of the region and about Riverside's niche in the regional market. Cook, Flatt & Strobel Engineers provided invaluable insight and critique to the large transportation improvements being proposed. Armstrong Teasdale, LLC contributed to the financial modeling and countless other implementation questions. Shafer, Kline & Warren has a long-standing relationship with the City and their expertise and knowledge of Riverside has been critical. BNIM Architects was brought in to facilitate community participation, conduct design analysis, coordinate planning and design recommendations and distill the team's findings into a legible Comprehensive Master Plan.

Community Involvement
From the start, community involvement was critical. Directed by the City of Riverside, the Master Planning Team incorporated extensive public feedback into every step of the process. During data collection, public opinion research, stakeholder interviews, and community workshops, the general public and the Riverside business community played a major role in the creation of the Master Plan. The commitment of everyone involved instilled a great deal of confidence in the Planning Team, and demonstrated a commitment to implementation that will help carry the plan forward. View the complete list participants and stakeholders

Read all about Riverside citizens' participation: Download the complete Master Plan, a 13MB Adobe Acrobat document. For users with slower internet connections, the Master Plan is also available from the Document Center as smaller, individual "chapters" that download more quickly.