EHI is leading community engagement and municipal coordination for Allegheny County’s Comprehensive Plan update — the long-range plan that will guide how the county grows, invests, and thrives for decades to come. Working in collaboration with Pashek+MTR and OHM Advisors, EHI is the bridge between the County and its communities.

Our role is facilitating direct engagement with the county’s 130 municipalities. Each one has its own government, its own priorities, and its own character — and each one deserves a seat at the table. EHI is helping ensure local voices shape county policy, not the other way around. Through stakeholder coordination, municipal outreach, and meeting planning and facilitation, we’re aligning local initiatives with countywide planning goals and building relationships that turn a plan on paper into action on the ground.

Because that’s the real test of a comprehensive plan: not what it says, but what it does. Allegheny County set out to create a plan that’s innovative, issue-oriented, and implementable — one that’s easy for the public to access and understand, and that delivers practical, adoptable recommendations with real backbone. The plan is built around four straightforward questions: What does the County consider important? What can it affect directly? What can it affect indirectly? And where will it invest its resources?

The County’s goal is ambitious: a plan that stands as a leading example of county comprehensive planning in Pennsylvania — in how it engages the public, tackles issues, tracks progress and supports its municipalities. EHI’s engagement and coordination work is central to getting there.

When communities help write the plan, communities are invested in seeing it through. That’s how regional planning succeeds — and that’s what EHI does best: connecting people and place.