McCool Development Solutions

Specialties

McCool Development Solutions, LLC (MDS) offers a wide array of community planning, design and development services that span the continuum of both public and private sectors. We are small by design with an operating philosophy founded in personal service, innovation and responsiveness.

Our firm offers clients the right tools and services to help them develop a practical yet innovative approach to address their community planning, entitlement management and permitting needs. We strive to bridge the gap in communication between public and private sectors by providing community planning and building services to various communities, the development community and businesses along Colorado’s Front Range.

Services Provided:

Municipal Planning Services

Collaborative Land Use Planning

Downtown Revitalization

Comprehensive Plan Preparation & Updates

Land Use Regulations

Community Enhancement/​Code Enforcement

Building Permit Expediting

Landscape Architecture

History

Established in 2000.

McCool Development Solutions, LLC has established an unmatched reputation of providing efficient and cost-​effective municipal planning services to communities in Colorado. We offer our municipal clients the right tools and services to help them develop a practical yet innovative approach to address their particular planning and community development needs. We provide the right mix of services to complement any community’s existing resources.

Utilizing contract planning services is an efficient and effective response to meeting temporary or ongoing needs for professional assistance as a result of increased or decreased workload, budget constraints, staff turnover, or sickness. Whether your community needs assistance with development review, code enforcement, a comprehensive plan update, revisions to your land use regulations, design of a municipal park or a downtown revitalization strategy — MDS can help!

Meet the Business Owner

Carrie M.

Business Owner

Carrie McCool is the founder and Principal of McCool Development Solutions (MDS) a land use consulting firm specializing in providing municipal planning services to Colorado’s small to mid size communities. Carrie has more than sixteen years of national and international experience in all aspects of downtown and community development wherein much of her work focuses on downtown revitalization, developing comprehensive land use plans, development code revisions, grant writing, diagnosis and drafting of land use policies; preparing implementation strategies as well as community engagement strategies and consensus building.

Carrie received her Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado at Denver and her Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs with a minor in Environmental Issues from the University of Hawaii. She is on the Board of Directors of Downtown Colorado, Inc., and serves on the Executive Committee as Treasurer.