LSL is well known and highly respected for its expertise in training and educating both local officials and professional staff. Each year LSL conducts many workshops and presentations for a number of organizations.  We also have regular training programs on a variety of topics for our ongoing client communities.

This emphasis on client education is carried over into all aspects of LSL’s work. It is our goal to not only give our clients the best tools to do their job, but to impart an understanding of how to use those tools most effectively.

• Author, Public Involvement Tips to Gain Support for Access Management
• Editor, ITE Recommended Practice on Planning Urban Road Networks
• Contributor, ITE Current Hot Topics in Transportation Planning, September 2009
• Co-author Basic Planning and Zoning Training Program Manual, Michigan Chapter of the American Planning Association
• Handbook for New Planning Commissioners, Michigan Municipal League
• Zoning Board of Appeals Handbook, Michigan Municipal League

LSL sends periodic e-alerts on the latest planning trends and projects.  See the archive here.

LSL is frequently asked to speak at conferences, on webinars, and for communities and agencies across the country.  Often, we make a PDF File version of these presentations available on this page for a time after they're presented (see below).  If you attended an LSL presentation not on this page, please contact us for more information.

Past Presentations