Southern California is considered the perfect place to live with its beaches, mountains, deserts, industry, Hollywood, and diversity of all people and walks of life - but it cannot support future growth without an organization dedicated for planning and coordination. Because of its geographic and economic draw, the five counties of Southern California are under fire to develop strategic planning for the future; hence the need for the Southern California Master Plan Institute.
The Southern California Master Plan Institute is an organization overseen by Tony D. Smith, CEO of TD Smith & Associates Incorporated, a business plan development and research firm based in West Covina California. Tony also is the Principle of a Business and Real Estate Brokerage firm known as SoCalBizOps. Tony and his team have developed more than 300 business plans since 1995 and the team has implemented more than 20% of them.
As Southern California's population is expected to increase to 50,000,000 by the next generation, the Master Plan Institute has been created to become the source of primary and secondary research for planning, development, and coordination - it serves as the project manager for numerous developments, real estate planning teams, and business start-ups. The institute is in the business of developing initiatives for Master Plans which shall include coordination between business, municipalities, education, media, county and state government as well as the entities that support them.
The team focuses on infrastructure planning for local communities, promoting the use of existing sites for multiple uses, building "up"" and not "out", promoting the concept of living and working in the same commnunities, and developing strategic plans for second and third shift plans which will ease the challenges associated with transportation, education, infrastructure, power, water, and the protection of our environment. The institute also develops per capita planning for businesses and development to best develop communities to support the population (For example, how many restaurants should be built in a particular area to support the current and future population? This information shall be vital for land developers, businesses, banks, investors, and the community governments that approve land use).
Management, control, and mission analysis is overseen by the board of directors and is facilitated by staff.
The thrust of the mission is to develop a marketing plan and strategic plan for Southern California to mitigate its current and future challenges of expansion and growth; to promote a grass roots, commmunity approach to the problems by helping local municipalities determine how they can best work into the master plan through information provided by the institute. Environmental challenges are also studied and mitigated.
The function of TD Smith & Associates is to write and implement business plans for its clients. The function of SoCalBizOps and its relationship with the instutute is to secure construction loans, equipment loans, and other vital process needs of TD Smith & Associates clients through relationships with its commercial bankers. SoCalBizOps has a "Broker of Record" Tom Marino and Principle Tony Smith, both of whom are licensed to sell real estate as well as secure real estate, construction, and business loans in the State of California.
