About

Help communities craft durable solutions that build resilient cities, steward natural resources, and strengthen governance systems.

Services

Our public engagement and collaborative planning services:

  • Public Engagement
    - Stakeholder assessment
    - Process design
    - Outreach/education, surveys
    - Workshop facilitation

  • Consensus Building
    - Agreement-focused facilitation
    - Task forces, advisory committees
    - Land use, policy, site plans

  • Dispute Resolution
    - Conflict assessment
    - Conflict de-escalation
    - Mediation

  • Advisory & Representation (non-neutral)
    - Stakeholder engagement
    - Assisted negotiation
    - Entitlements
    - Political messaging

Sectors

Our sectors work spans the full spectrum of the public realm — from planning and policy to design to implementation:

  • Urban Planning. Community plans, specific plans, and zoning updates.

  • Infrastructure. Transportation, civic, and campus facilities.

  • Environment. Habitat, resilience, and climate adaptation planning.

  • Governance. Policy design, organizational strategy, and interagency collaboration.

Outcomes

Our work is tangible — organizations, places, infrastructure — and experienced best in person. We have helped shape the public realm with socially relevant, public-serving places and programs since 1995.

  • Kaiser Permanente Hospital Oakland

  • Pearson-Arastadero Preserve Environmental Education Center in Palo Alto

Founder

Peter Bluhon’s singular focus — on and off the job — is the well-being of the public realm and equity of the the public good.

Philosophy and Buddhist studies at Pomona College (and a semester in Sri Lanka), a