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Alta Planning + Design

Official Alta Planning + Design business agent. Specializing in sustainable transportation and community planning services.

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About Alta Planning + Design

About Us

Alta Planning + Design works to mitigate climate change and advance safety through sustainable community planning. Founded in 1996, Alta has pioneered active transportation, focusing on pedestrian and bicycle-friendly infrastructure.

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What Alta Planning + Design does

Our Services

Alta specializes in design, planning, and implementation of bicycle, pedestrian, greenway, park, and trail corridors and systems. Key disciplines include engineering, landscape architecture, and transportation demand management.

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Alta Planning + Design is a planning and design consultancy whose services cover the "design, planning, and implementation of bicycle, pedestrian, greenway, park, and trail corridors and systems." The services page groups the work into four disciplines and a longer list of specialties.

The four disciplines are Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Planning, and Transportation Demand Management.

The specialties listed are
Active Spaces, Wild Places; Civic Analytics; Climate Resiliency + Sustainability; Creative Services; Curbside Management + Parking; Funding Assistance; Multimodal Corridor Plans + Complete Streets; New Mobility; Public Engagement; Quick Build; Safe Routes to School; Safety; Traffic Engineering; Trails + Greenways; Transit Planning + Design; Urban Bikeways; Urban Design + Small Area Planning; and Wayfinding.

On the Planning discipline page the firm writes that "Alta's planners draw on national expertise to create local success stories. We integrate community engagement methods that create decision-making frameworks to help clients meet real goals," describing work that runs "from policy through conceptual design, bringing quantitative and qualitative data to life through visually engaging storytelling." Named plan types on that page include a cycling plan, a bike plan, a transportation improvements plan and a pedestrian system plan.

The firm's own summary of its offering is "solutions across the disciplines of planning, design, engineering, education and encouragement programs, and community engagement."

The website does not publish prices, rates, fees or a cost range for any of these services, and no pricing or fee schedule appears on the services page. Anyone who needs a price, an estimate or a quote should contact the firm directly rather than rely on a published figure, because none is published.

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Where Alta Planning + Design works

Alta Planning + Design has a Seattle office. The address published on the contact page is 2101 4th Avenue, Suite 340, Seattle, WA 98121, and the phone number listed for that location is (253) 346-0610, with Stephanie Frans named as the contact. This is the office serving the Seattle area in Washington state.

The firm also lists a toll-free number, 1 (888) 282-1283.

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Other offices listed on the same contact page, with their addresses and phone numbers, are: Asheville, NC (45 South French Broad Avenue, Suite 170, Asheville, NC 28801; (828) 785-5611); Atlanta, GA (999 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 575, Atlanta, GA 30309; (470) 290-1202); Denver, CO (1543 Champa Street, Suite 201, Denver, CO 80202; (720) 570-3343); Durham, NC (111 E Chapel Hill Street, Suite 100, Durham, NC 27701; (919) 358-8142); Huntsville, AL (320 Pelham Avenue, Suite 405, Huntsville, AL 35801; (984) 329-5006); El Segundo, CA (222 N Pacific Coast Hwy, 10th Floor, El Segundo, CA 90245; (323) 486-6718); Los Angeles, CA (811 W 7th Street, 7th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017; (213) 797-4445); Minneapolis, MN (400 S 4th Street #401-102, Minneapolis, MN 55415; (612) 400-9856); Oakland, CA (180 Grand Avenue, Suite 1400, Oakland, CA 94610; (510) 578-6878); Ontario, CA (980 W 6th Street, Suite 209, Ontario, CA 91762; (909) 367-4048); and Portland, OR (101 SW Main Street, Suite 2000, Portland, OR 97204; (503) 200-3271).

The contact page does not publish office hours, opening times, or email addresses for these locations. It does not state which areas served are assigned to which office.

Lists Alta as a location. Names Canada, Norway, and Alta as a service area. Areas beyond these are not published.

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Prices

Hours and contact

To contact Alta Planning + Design about a project, the website provides a contact page listing each office with a named contact and a direct phone number, plus a toll-free number, 1 (888) 282-1283. For work in the Seattle area, the Seattle office is at 2101 4th Avenue, Suite 340, Seattle, WA 98121, phone (253) 346-0610, with Stephanie Frans listed as the contact. A prospective client can call the nearest office to start a conversation, book a discussion, or ask to schedule a meeting.

The website does not publish pricing. There is no price list, no rates, no fee schedule, no hourly rate and no cost estimate anywhere on the public site, and no online form that returns a quote or an estimate automatically. The cost of any piece of work would have to be discussed directly with the firm, and no figure should be assumed from the website.

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The site also does not publish office hours, opening times, an appointment booking calendar, or general email addresses for the offices. There is no published turnaround time or schedule for delivering a plan or design.

The firm's public site is organised around About, Services, Projects, People, Resources, Careers and Contact sections. The work described is consulting for public agencies and communities on walking, bicycling, trails, transit and street design, so an enquiry typically comes from an agency or organisation with a project or corridor in mind rather than from a walk-in customer.

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About the firm, history and credentials

Alta Planning + Design describes itself on its about page as founded in 1996: "Alta was founded in 1996 when communities were calling for safer streets for people walking and bicycling." The page states the firm has 30+ years of experience and 250+ staff with a presence across the United States.

The stated mission is that "Alta works to mitigate climate change and advance safety and social justice through cultivating sustainable communities." The firm positions itself as an early practitioner in active transportation planning and design, with an emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion and on climate resilience.

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On ownership, the about page says the firm is backed by the Trilon Group.

On licensing structure, the site notes that state and local affiliates carry out licensed professional services: Alta Engineering SE PLLC in North Carolina, and H + Z Engineering + Landscape Architecture D.P.C. in New York.

The about page does not list awards, individual professional certifications, revenue figures, or the names of founding team members. It does not name client sectors as a formal list, although the projects published on the site are largely for public agencies such as city and county departments of transportation, transit agencies and state departments of transportation.

The about page publishes no prices, rates, fees or cost information, and no office hours.

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Named projects, including Seattle and Washington work

The projects section of altago.com lists work by name. Seattle-area and Washington state projects that appear include Flip Your Trip: West Seattle Bridge Travel Options Program, the Anacortes Commercial Ave. Corridor Plan, the "Choose Your Way Bellevue" branding and graphic design work, and the Aberdeen School Walk Route Study.

The Flip Your Trip project page names the Seattle Department of Transportation as the client, gives the location as Seattle, WA, and dates the work 2021 to 2022. The page describes the context: "The emergency closure of the West Seattle Bridge in 2020 displaced 100,000 daily auto trips to farther-flung bridges, causing debilitating congestion to lower income neighborhoods and worsening mobility for everyone." The services attached to that project are Creative Services, Planning, Public Engagement and Transportation Demand Management.

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Other named projects listed across the site include the Atlanta BeltLine, Atlanta 5th Avenue Complete Streets, the Razorback Greenway, Bear Creek Greenway, the Alpha Loop Trail Design, the Ashford-Dunwoody Road Commuter Trail, Santa Monica Beach Path Placemaking, the Adirondack Great Camps Soft Surface Trails Master Plan, the Bay Area Bicycle Superhighways Concept Study for Caltrans District 4, the Bay Area MTC Spare the Air Youth Program, the Aurora 13th Avenue Multimodal Mobility Study, the Billings 5th Avenue North Corridor Concept and Visioning, Alameda County SR2S, the Anchorage People Mover Frequent Routes Awareness Campaign, the 200 West Cycle Track Design and Protected Intersection, Kauai CAAP, CVLINK, Downtown Vancouver, and an LA Metro Regional Kit of Parts for the 2028 Games.

The project listings do not publish budgets, fees, contract values or approval outcomes.

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Sustainability and Equity Initiatives

Sustainability and Diversity

Alta is committed to sustainability and equity. They prioritize climate resiliency and community engagement, ensuring diverse perspectives in planning and design projects.

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What Alta Planning + Design has not published yet

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