Our Services:

Consulting:

Knight, McGuire & Associates, Inc. can provide professional consulting for your engineering needs covering site development potential or problems, drainage, utilities, transportation, coastal considerations, re-zonings, comprehensive plan modification, due diligence analysis & feasibility studies. Knight, McGuire & Associates, Inc. will coordinate any outside disciplines as necessary to adequately address concerns. KMA has worked on all levels of development planning for local stats, region & federal concerns.

Subdivision:
Knight, McGuire & Associates, Inc. can provide for land planning services or given a conceptual land plan we will guide the client through development process of evaluating feasibility, concurrency, planning & zoning approvals, local, state & federal permits as necessary, prepare construction documents, bidding, construction inspection and final plat recording at completion of work. KMA has a wide range of subdivision development experience ranging from splitting single parcels of land in two, to golf course community development for 400 ac. plans & creation of separate municipalities. We look forward to providing our services to you and encourage you to contact us.

Site Plans:
Knight, McGuire & Associates, Inc.  has experience in individual site plan development ranging from parking lot expansion to regional malls. We will work closely with developers & architects to obtain require planning approvals & permits necessary to develop sites. Typical work involves site plan approvals, permits, construction documents inspection during construction. KMA generally acts as owner represent during construction for site work.

Golf Courses:
We have worked on golf courses integrated with a community development plan, stand-alone golf courses, and re-design of existing or older courses. Knight, McGuire & Associates can provide site plan approval, storm water and consumption usage (groundwater) permitting, earthquake estimations, bid documents and construction inspection for golf course development. We have worked with client selected course designer and can also coordinate course design as necessary. We have a particularly keen interest in golf course development and look forward to engineering stormwater plans that are appreciated for many years by the owners and superintendents whom will be managing our designs.

Developments of Regional Import:
Knight, McGuire & Associates, Inc. has experience in developing and managing Developments of Regional Impact (DRI) and obtaining Preliminary Development Order, minor modification and substantial deviation or defined in Florida Statutes and Department of Community Affairs rule. There is a wide range of subject matter to be addressed for DRI's and Knight, McGuire & Associates has the expertise to handle the majority of the scope and to coordinate sub-consultants (Attorneys, Biologists, Traffic Engineers, Housing Experts, Environmental and Soils Professionals, etc.) as necessary to address special ones and control scope of work and cost to obtain DRI approvals. We look forward to discussing your project demands and are confident we can assemble a lean mean project team for your needs.

Land Planning:
Knight, McGuire & Associates has experience in conceptualizing your project plan. This is usually the most creative phase of a development process and results in concept development plans, which have engineering and land use principals built for feasibility analysis and project economics. KMA also gladly works with client selected land planner or architectural land planner to review feasibility aspects of a plan for example: comprehensive plan, zoning, lot sizes, approval process, cut / fill balance, flood zones, utility service availability, infrastructure cost, access considerations, drainage requirements, etc.

Feasibility Studies: (Due diligence review)
Knight, McGuire & Associates, Inc. commonly accumulates information on a particular property for development feasibility analysis, this analysis may include:

Our feasibility studies identify problems or restrictions on the development of the property that may effect reasonable economic or practical feasibility for development.

Coastal Projects:
Knight, McGuire & Associates, Inc. designs and structural requirements for state of Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Beaches & Shores Coastal Construction Code. Any structure proposed seaward of the state coastal construction control line is subject to permitting requirements of the state. Knight, McGuire & Associates, Inc. have experience designing & permitting many coastal projects from Palm Beach County to Brevard County. Generally projects are required to be constructed on piling foundation, elevated above 100 year storm event wave impacts, restricted in shore parallel development width and required to be set back to the established line of development along the coast in your area. We can guide your architect to design within state guidelines to achieve permittable coastal structures and site development. We have at all times numerous coastal projects and have some efficiency in establishing a working relationship with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials.


Local Planning:
Knight, McGuire & Associates, Inc. has a personal approach to development planning and approval, we will prepare your plans and meet with appropriate development officials to expedite review process, and attend numerous review sessions as necessary to insure smooth approval processing of your development plans. We encourage our clients to attend certain planning review meetings for planning staff to relate to an individual and for client to get a feel for approval review process. The ordinances for development are not difficult to comply with, however, if approval is dependent upon public hearings (planned development, process, rezoning, etc.), Knight, McGuire & Associates will advise of additional efforts which may become appropriate.

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