Land Use Planning and Development Consulting for Important Property Decisions
Schmitz & Associates helps property owners, buyers, developers, investors, architects, attorneys, and project teams navigate zoning, entitlements, permitting, due diligence, coastal approvals, and complex agency review.
Guidance before decisions become delays.
The best time to call Schmitz & Associates is before a purchase, design, submittal, hearing, agency response, or entitlement strategy becomes expensive to unwind.
Before escrow closes
Zoning, buildability, entitlement risk, and development feasibility review before committing to a property.
Start a property review OwnersBefore design advances
Planning guidance for remodels, rebuilds, ADUs, guest houses, hillside work, coastal projects, and lot changes.
Ask about your property DevelopersBefore capital is committed
Entitlement strategy for multifamily, commercial, mixed-use, subdivision, CUP, variance, and approval matters.
Discuss feasibility Project TeamsBefore agency review stalls
Coordination support for architects, attorneys, brokers, engineers, consultants, and public hearing preparation.
Coordinate next steps
Experienced planning professionals for complex property, entitlement, permit, and agency matters.
A clear path through zoning, entitlements, permits, and approvals.
Each engagement begins with the property, the jurisdiction, the project stage, and the decision or deadline in front of the client.
Zoning Analysis & Property Review
Understand allowed uses, development standards, overlays, constraints, and likely approval pathways before decisions are made.
Learn MoreDevelopment Feasibility & Due Diligence
Evaluate entitlement needs, regulatory considerations, agency concerns, and project feasibility before purchase or design.
Learn MoreDevelopment Entitlements
Support for discretionary approvals, CUPs, variances, subdivisions, development agreements, hearings, and conditions.
Learn MorePermit Processing & Agency Coordination
Organized submittal, review, comment response, consultant coordination, and project management support.
Learn MoreCoastal Development Permits
Strategy and coordination for coastal properties, local coastal programs, coastal development permits, and Coastal Commission considerations.
Learn MoreViolation Resolution & Public Hearings
Professional support for notices, agency issues, correction letters, public hearings, and complicated land use matters.
Learn MoreBuilt for serious property and development matters.
Clarify the property
Location, jurisdiction, ownership stage, project type, and immediate decision or deadline.
2Review constraints
Zoning, overlays, approvals, agencies, entitlement risks, and available documents.
3Plan the approval path
Identify the likely process, required coordination, and practical next steps.
4Move the matter forward
Coordinate with agencies, consultants, and project teams through review and approval stages.
Experience across coastal, civic, residential, agricultural, and development settings.
Questions serious clients ask before they call.
When should I contact a land use consultant?
Before buying property, submitting plans, pursuing entitlements, responding to agency comments, or making major investment decisions that depend on zoning, permits, or development approvals.
Can Schmitz & Associates help before escrow closes?
Yes. The firm can help evaluate zoning, buildability, entitlement risk, development feasibility, and regulatory considerations before or during escrow.
What types of approvals can Schmitz & Associates help with?
Zoning analysis, development entitlements, permit processing, coastal development permits, conditional use permits, variances, subdivisions, lot legality, violation resolution, public hearings, and approval project management.
Planning a purchase, project, entitlement, permit, or agency response?
Tell Schmitz & Associates where the property is located, what you are trying to do, and what decision or deadline is coming next.