PLANNING GROUP
JD Barnes Limited, Canada's largest and most advanced provider of GIS, surveying and property mapping services to the development industry and public agencies through its parent divisions and new subsidiary First Base Solutions Inc., is very pleased to announce the opening of the JD Barnes Planning Group - a new multi-faceted consulting and client service division. This initiative substantially expands the scope of our available services to the property, land development and municipal sectors, and very effectively compliments the long-established land and property services provided by JD Barnes Limited since its inception in1960. Comprehensive service will be delivered through the Markham, Ontario head offices as well as the field offices located in Milton, Whitby, Barrie, Ottawa and Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Like the other service divisions at J.D. Barnes Limited, the Planning Group represents a further stage in the firm's continuing evolution of a fully-integrated land based information and consulting company offering planning and project management services to both private and public agencies.

This new company division offers a complete range of land planning and policy/implementation services to private and public sector clients. Like all our divisions, the Planning approach at JD Barnes Limited is premised - first and foremost - on professionalism in client service. This is our objective, as well as our offer to you as a potential JD Barnes Limited Client. For more than 45 years, we continue to be

Our professional land development services encompass the complete development / redevelopment process:

· Brownfields
· Intensification
· Community/Project design
· Site Plans and Design
· Application preparation/administration
· Process management
· Consultant Team coordination
· Agency and community consultation/facilitation
· Subdivision and Condominium design and registration
· Facilitation of requisite approvals and implementing tools/documents
· Assessment and resolution of conditions of approval, development agreements
· Expert Witness representations & affidavits

We also offer a complete range of planning services to municipalities and public agencies:

· Official Plans and reviews/updates
· Secondary Plans
· Community Design
· Comprehensive Zoning By-laws
· Special Policy Projects
· Consultant Team Coordination
· Development Review and Procedures
· Process management/streamlining
· Community consultation/facilitation
· Development Agreements
· Expert Witness representations & affidavits

On all undertakings, our Planning Objective is simple:

To clearly identify client interests and objectives, to articulate the most appropriate plan of action for stakeholder coordination /process management, and to deliver using the right balance of consultation - direction - collaboration and facilitation. As with all of our corporate services, Time matters as much to us, as it does to you.

We recognize the community planning process has substantially evolved during the past two decades, with greater emphasis on sustainability, growth management, environment, energy conservation, built-form, variety and choice in housing, traffic and public transit - and are well-positioned by experience to assist appropriate responses to such interests.

With our in-house property data base, GIS, IT, AutoCad and digital orthophoto/mapping technologies, J.D. Barnes also offers the unique ability to readily access all of the base property information required to undertake the most complex development or policy based planning programs - from assessing the development potential of selected sites, to reviewing the land use implications of new environmental policy. In short, J. D. Barnes offers all the professional expertise and technical resources you need to manage and complete your project - in one place.

Comprehensive service means JD Barnes's Clients save Time, and achieve project Efficiencies not available from less diversified or integrated providers.