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Bret C. Keast

Bret C. Keast, AICP serves as President of Kendig Keast, succeeding Lane H. Kendig upon his retirement. Bret’s practice includes 20 years of experience with a Council of Governments and Metropolitan Planning Organization, a rapidly growing suburban municipality, and an international multi-disciplinary firm. He has consulted with both small and large jurisdictions in a variety of settings across the U.S., led interdisciplinary consultant teams, and both authored and managed projects ranging from comprehensive plans to zoning and land development regulations, small area and corridor design studies, parks and open space master plans, transit and transportation studies, site planning and land development, and numerous special studies.

Community Character

Principles for Design and Planning

Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complexity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, taking into account the diverse desires of municipalities and citizens.