Experience & Approach

Over the span of 25+ years Markus Pinney has worked with the land in a professional capacity, including as a Town Planner and Natural Resources Administrator for Massachusetts towns, as well as in project management positions for multi-disciplinary consulting firms. This broad experience, drawn from complimentary yet diverse perspectives, is utilized to address land owner, public, non-profit and private-sector client needs and objectives. Projects are developed and implemented thoughtfully in close cooperation with each client to accomplish their specific goals.

Development approvals are attained through accurate due diligence, thorough site analyses, innovative design and engaged dialogue with the approving authorities. Projects that promote client initiatives and comply with applicable regulations and laws are most often well positioned to obtain favorable community support. Similarly, consultation for public sector clients is advanced by responsive engagement of the mission and frameworks that define and guide a board’s or commission’s community role and regulatory responsibilities. In consultation with neighborhoods, community values are supported by generating consensus, promoting critical analyses, establishing priorities, and adopting effective strategies, including comment in the public hearing process. In land conservation efforts, donor needs and goals may be balanced with the recipient organization's mission and mandates.

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

Aldo Leopold