What this timeline is
A committee-facing way to sequence questions, evidence, and professional work.
Illustrative decision path
A project does not become easier because a committee waits. A staged decision path helps an institution learn enough at each step to decide whether the next dollar, meeting, or consultant is justified. This is an illustrative sequence, not a promise about any municipality’s review time.
01 — THE DECISION PATH
Months 0–1
A shared problem statement, the existing uses that must continue, and the address everyone is discussing.
Months 1–2
Zoning, height, density, parking, access, and other constraints with citations and open questions visible.
Months 2–4
A small set of massing, parking, phasing, and continuity options that a board can understand and challenge.
Months 4–7
A scoped next step: which architect, planner, survey, engineer, or pre-application conversation is justified.
Months 7–10
A refined brief, a clear approval path, and a committee record of assumptions, tradeoffs, and decisions.
A committee-facing way to sequence questions, evidence, and professional work.
A guaranteed entitlement, construction, or municipal review schedule. Every site and jurisdiction changes the path.
At the front: turning an address into cited facts and a brief your professionals can take forward.
Bring an address your committee already knows to a focused, 20-minute walkthrough.