Fiscally-informed planning, design, and community engagement to cultivate strong neighborhoods.
Cultivating vibrant communities with the resources you have
Coaching & consulting that helps city leaders align policy & investments with what residents are willing & able to pay for
Do the math to understand the true costs of your city’s business model and establish a common language in your community
Identify and align people, ideas, and resources to build consent, train change agents, and make meaningful progress right now
Cultivate fiscal health and local wealth by prioritizing people and place-based development and building incrementally with locals
Today’s decisions don’t align with the future we want and need.
Do any of these sound familiar?
Wants and needs of your citizens exceed available financial resources?
Aging neighborhoods & deteriorating infrastructure?
Conflicting vision, policies, plans, & processes?
Struggling to recruit and retain businesses that want to be long term members of the community?
Frustrated, apathetic, or disconnected residents?
Local government leaders provide critical services, juggle multiple tasks, and work longer hours than most. Yet, you never seem to have enough resources to keep up.
Does keeping up with your community’s needs feel like an uphill battle?
The expectations of your community grow daily, yet resources are scarce and there’s never-ending pressure to do more with less. Just keeping up in an environment of “Not in my backyard!” and “Don’t raise my taxes!” can be frustrating, exhausting, and often overwhelming. Meanwhile, infrastructure liabilities, environmental impacts, and debt obligations are being be passed on to our kids and future generations.
This isn’t right. Our cities should have sufficient resources to address basic services and infrastructure, we should be building places where everyone can prosper now and in the future, and citizens should understand and appreciate the work their city leaders do on their behalf.
We’re with you.
We are not interested in proposing complex projects that take years to get done with money cities don’t have.
We’d much rather partner with city leaders and change agents to get things done in less time with the resources your community does have.
"Verdunity is the planning and engineering connection we’ve been looking for as city managers. They have a fiscal and environmental sustainability approach that minimizes infrastructure costs as opposed to maximizing them."
Michael Kovacs
City Manager, Fate, Texas
"Kevin and the Verdunity team are leaders in the field. When only a few others were even talking about it, Kevin was looking for answers as to why cities struggle financially and how engineers and planners can change their approach to put the financial health of the community—and not just the next project—front and center."
Chuck Marohn
Founder & President of Strong Towns
Services that scale to fit your needs.
Don’t keep spinning your wheels implementing policies and projects you know don’t create places people and businesses want to experience and invest in over the long haul.
Join the growing group of community builders who are nudging their communities beyond business as usual and cultivating meaningful change in themselves, their neighborhoods, and their cities.
Coaching and Implementation Support
Learn, Connect, grow, and implement!
Are you an individual, community organization, or city staff looking to nudge your community toward a more equitable and financially sustainable future? Our workshops and online community gives you access to peers, topic experts, shareable resources, and courses that will help you incrementally improve yourself, your organization, and your community. Learn more →
Community Planning & Fiscal Analysis
Resource-conscious planning & engagement services
Building fiscally sustainable cities that provide opportunities for people of all ages and interests to thrive requires intentional leadership and tough choices. We provide strategic visioning, community planning, and implementation services that focus on closing your resource gap and cultivating a culture of collaboration in your community to make meaningful progress right now with the resources you have. Learn more →
Site Development and Municipal Engineering
designing places for people
We are a new breed of engineers that believes people, place, context, and resources should drive design - not outdated standards that turn every city street into a highway and result in more parking lots than buildings and public spaces. If you’re a small scale developer wanting assistance with infill projects or a city wanting to build or revitalize neighborhoods. to be more walkable and people-friendly, we’re here for you. Learn more →
It's time for a different approach.
The status quo in cities and towns is not financially sustainable. There are realistic, affordable steps to take right now to bridge the resource gap and get our communities back on the path to a healthy and prosperous future.
Here’s how to get started:
1. Schedule a free consultation.
This allows our team to better understand your situation.
2. Select what type of support you need.
Decide if you want to learn, plan and design, or execute.
3. Go Cultivate!
Make meaningful improvements to yourself, your organization, and your city.
Make meaningful progress, right now, with the resources you have.
Most cities lack the resources to keep up with infrastructure and service demands—yet daily decisions continue to prioritize growth over long-term costs, impacts, and equity.
Verdunity offers people and resource-conscious planning, coaching, and design services that help city leaders align vision, policy, and investments with what residents are willing and able to pay for so that you can:
make meaningful progress right now with the resources you have
close your city’s resource gap
cultivate resilient local economies and neighborhoods that people want to live and invest in
Check out our Go Cultivate! blog and podcast for community builders—interviews, discussions on new ideas, and plenty of lessons learned. We’re constantly talking about practical ways you can make your community stronger.
Even though we geek out out them, planning, development, and city decision-making are not the sexiest or most clear-cut topics to most people. We started the podcast as part of our effort to help community leaders and inspired citizens start making changes in their own cities, within their own roles.
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