Advancing Carbon-Neutral Environments Since 1977

AForrest & Associates specialize in Land Use Planning, Community Development, Strategic Project Management, and Organization Development...utilizing the practices of Sustainable Development and Learning Organizations.

Our Mission - Improving the Quality of Life Where We Live & Work Through Strategic Planning, Catalytic Leadership, & Partnering

Our Values - They Are Built Upon Balance, Integrity & Respect...And They Produce High Quality Service, Synergy & Success

Who we are
For over 30 years, AForrest & Associates have been providing high-level consulting analysis, creative solutions, leadership and team building, and implementation strategies for critical situational and long-range issues. We are national and international consultants dedicated to advancing community development and high-level organizational achievement for public agencies and private businesses. MORE about our team >>>

CONSULTING SERVICES

Land Use Planning & Community Development:

* Commercial/Residential Planning & Sustainable Development
* Natural Resource Conservation
* Historic Preservation
* Land Use Planning & Environment Assessment/Mitigation
* General & Specific Planning
* Alternative Transportation Planning

Organization Development & Management:
* Organization Development & Human Resource Training
* Grant Writing and Alternative Funding
* Resort/Inn Management & Operations

In focus

The Old St. Angela Inn
Pacific Grove, California
Historic Preservation

Site planning with the community and rezoning were required to approve Inn, a former church, rectory, and convent. Approvals required variances, and appeal process with City Council. http://www.sueandlewinns.com/stangela

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR PRACTICES & APPROACH Sustainable development and learning organizations are practices that can expand our capacity to develop a higher quality of life at work and at home. Ordinary measures, based on our past thinking models, cannot match the acceleration of change, complexity, and crisis that our cities and social systems are experiencing.

Sustainable Development -
"Sustainable development is about ensuring a better quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come."
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Learning Organizations –
“Learning organizations’ core disciplines are: personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision, and systems thinking.”
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