Tom Packard & Associates Office Profile Tom Packard & Associates is a land planning practice focused on visual resource management. From our office in the San Francisco Bay area we provide consultant services in scenic resource planning and visual impact assessment. We serve private and public-sector clients on projects ranging from urban and suburban development to transportation, mining, and major utilities. Our specialties include: • Visual impact assessment • Visual impact mitigation • Scenic resource planning • Landscape inventories • Community character evaluation • Design/development guidelines • Scenic Highway nominations • Scenic Highway corridor planning We are experts in applying landscape assessment and visual impact methodologies, including visual management systems employed by the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Highway Administration, and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. We are an authority on the design and application of public perception and preference studies. We have implemented innovative, rigorous studies that utilize public response data to evaluate complex visual resource issues. We are skilled in the technical application of computer-generated photo simulations and 3-D animations to the visual assessment process. SCENIC RESOURCE PLANNING VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT TOM PACKARD & ASSOCIATES 1929 Augustus Court Walnut Creek, CA 94598 (925) 943-3084 tpackard@tompackard.com