Jennie Maxon's Contact Details

Jennie Maxon's Company Details

Bluhon Group, Inc

Berkeley, California, United States • 1 - 10 Employees
Public Policy

Bluhon Group helps people collaborate, plan, and negotiate effectively to solve complex public policy and urban development challenges.ServicesBluhon Group provides stakeholder engagement, planning, and negotiation services in urban development, public policy, and organizational strategy. We help clients convene planning processes that achieve technically sound, politically durable outcomes. We mediate public disputes, entitlement appeals, and inter-organizational conflict. ExpertiseOur issue expertise is in land use, urban design, facility and infrastructure design, environmental policy, and strategic planning within and between organizations and government. OutcomesWe assisted Kaiser Permanente to engage the community in the successful design of its new $300 million hospital in Oakland, California, which the planning commission approved unanimously. We helped achieve unanimous approval for a 36-unit Habitat for Humanity development in the City of Redwood City, California. We worked with a regional planning NGO in Budapest to convene a multi-stakeholder planning council for the River Danube in Hungary, as part of an EU-sponsored 10-nation planning process.PeoplePeter Bluhon, a planner and mediator, founded the firm to integrate design-thinking with advanced negotiation methods and urban and environmental planning. The firm teams with several consultants and allied firms to deliver robust, comprehensive services.