Sean Compton Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

As a planner, urban designer, and landscape architect, I bring more than 30 years of professional experience to Texas and beyond. My value is solving a critical challenge with a diverse range of clients. I thrive on achieving the client’s vision and exceeding the project goals. It starts with my motivation to solve challenges collaboratively. The clients I serve span the transect from urban infill PUDs and renowned mixed-use communities to walkable neighborhoods stitched into the fabric of the local culture. My expertise includes rural destinations, conservation developments, preservation, and expert testimony. Designing places in a time of "stranger danger" is a challenge I relish. My experience is in creating livable and economically viable places. I strive to connect people to people and nature while protecting our vulnerable resources. Achieving this goal addresses one of today’s most pressing challenges and makes me hopeful for our future. As an advocate for sustainable urbanism, I work with a wide range of developers, municipalities, and non-profits. My belief in civic responsibility includes being a former president of the Central Texas Chapter of The Congress of New Urbanism, serving on the City of Austin Zoning and Platting Commission, and the Real Estate Committee for Austin Habitat for Humanity. I have lived and practiced in South Africa and Southern California, where I practiced on mixed-use developments throughout the Pacific Rim. My registrations include Professional Landscape Architect, LEED AP, and TxDOT Precertification, 1.4.1 Land Planning/Engineering.

Austin, Texas

Sean, an accomplished planner, urban designer, and landscape architect advocating sustainable urbanism, brings more than 35 years of diverse professional experience to each project. He has advanced environmentally and socially responsible developments throughout the Pacific Rim and South Africa. He is home to Central Texas (for over 25 years), providing a uniquely informed perspective to every development. Sean places great importance on using a multi-disciplinary and systematic approach to address complex challenges using a collaborative process to reach mutually shared solutions and a cohesive story.Inspired by the common language of placemaking, his work remains rooted in creating experiential places and communities that enhance the quality of life with their human and built environments. His visionary thinking has resulted in enduring developments across the transect, from compact, walkable communities to rural communities to the preservation of critical conservation lands. Through public service and community engagement, he advocates design practices that advance a belief that inclusion in social, environmental, and economic factors is best achieved through connections between people and nature to promote regenerative environments.Sean has a wide range of expertise, which he self-describes as an array of spikey points of expertise - all of which add to the wider context he brings to each unique project. His expertise includes the following:- Visioning, Master Planning, and Design- Planned unit developments and entitlements- Mixed income Housing-Transit-ready Developments (Urban Design, Community Planning and Entitlements-Shared Mobility and Context Sensitive Design-Historic Restoration and RepurposingCommunity Engagement Planning and DesignConservation Development PlanningConservation PlanningExpert Testimony in Visual Assessment Impacts and Rule 76 Approvals

Austin Texas