Land Use Studies and Technical Assistance

With 40 years of professional experience, Barry Miller helps cities navigate complex and often unique long-range planning challenges. He is known as a trusted troubleshooter and subject-matter expert, valued for his ability to step in quickly, diagnose issues, and provide clear, practical guidance.

Barry serves as an on-call adviser to multiple jurisdictions and has provided peer review for comprehensive plans in several large American cities. Clients turn to him for technical assistance grounded in deep, hands-on knowledge of land use planning. His work has included drafting congressional testimony and mayoral speeches, serving as a land use expert witness in a jury trial, developing analytical methods for land use studies, editing major planning documents, and creating content for general plan videos and websites. He has also prepared general plan work programs and policy position papers for cities across the country.

In addition, Barry is a contributing author to The Practice of Planning (ICMA, 2008), a core professional planning textbook widely used in university planning programs.