The City of Winchester, Virginia was built out and didn't need a conventional future land use plan that told them where residential commercial and industrial land uses should locate in 30 years. Through a series of neighborhood meetings, what emerged was a mosaic of different aspirations, including keeping some neighborhoods protected from change, improving others and totally changing some.

East Macon Arts Village in Macon, Georgia, was a catalyst project to turn abandoned worker housing into a community Arts Center that could be a social focus for the surrounding neighborhood. The project has restored homes, built a community center and fostered economic opportunity in the economically disadvantaged area

Bayview is an over-300-year-old African American community located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. By the late 20th century, Bayview had become an example of hard rural poverty with few prospects for improvement. A new vision for housing and community development by Bayview Citizens for Social Justice has fostered a renaissance for Bayview and the story of its rebirth has attracted national attention.

Virginia’s growing recognition of the importance of uniform standards for bicycle, pedestrian and transit modes led to an effort by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) to develop the first Multimodal Design Guidelines in the State’s history in 2013. Updated in 2020, the Guidelines have become the standard for both a systems planning approach and a set of design standards for Virginia and have been adopted by VDOT in their Road Design Manual. Vlad Gavrilovic worked with Amy Inman of DRPT and Jessica Dimmick of Renaissance Planning as principal authors of the original Guidelines and the recent update.

Vlad Gavrilovic has lead a number of Scenario Planning efforts using computer models to explore ways that communities and regions might better prepare for an uncertain future. Working with various partners and collaborators, Vlad has become a recognized expert in Land Use Scenario Planning, developing and applying models that explore the impacts of large scale shifts in population, technological and environmental trends over time.

The city of Norfolk, Virginia hadn’t comprehensively updated its zoning ordinance in over 20 years. As the second most vulnerable city to sea level impacts in America (after New Orleans), Norfolk also needed to build resilience as a key principle into its new zoning standards. Vlad Gavrilovic, while at Renaissance and EPR helped develop the new Ordinance’s Resilience and Form Based Standards as part of an overall ordinance rewrite led by Clarion Associates. The Ordinance was recognized by the American Planning Association in 2017 with a special Award for Excellence in Sustainability and was recognized in the award as the most resilient zoning in the country.