30 years of private planning and design experience in Florida; Mr. Hall is the Principal at Hall Development Services Inc after leading Planning and Design Studios for two other firms. He has successfully completed projects in more than 50 different municipalities throughout Florida. He has directed a wide variety of projects from complicated entitlement strategies to Form Based Codes to conceptual site plans to working with local governments. Jim’s extensive community planning experience includes permitting and entitlement acquisition, land acquisition due diligence, site design / master planning and development approval strategies. Additionally, he has a strong design background which provides exciting and realistic development solutions. Strong leadership skills allow the successful completion of projects in the complex public approval arena while balancing the many competing interests on complicated projects.The HDSi team has grown into a collaboration of talented professional with 83 years of collaboration together between the principals; Brian Davis, ASLA of Libra Design Group and Craig Batstone, GIS director of GeoOrbis. Thus, HDSI can act as your trusted advisor in real estate matters or provide a full service planning+design studio for your project. For more information, please review our website; www.halldsi.com. Specialties: urban design, master planned communities; local regulatory entitlement projects; form based codes, expert witness testimony. Recent examples of large scale projects include 16,000 acre Wellness Way in Lake County, Florida, 800 acre South Lake Crossings in Clermont, Florida for Lennar, 1,200 The Grow in Orange County, Florida, 1,600 acre Waterleigh Community for DR Horton in Orange County, Florida and 2,000 acre Center Lake Ranch in St Cloud, Florida for Pineloch.