Simran Malhotra

Raimi + Associates is a multidisciplinary planning, policy, design and research firm with offices in Berkeley and Los Angeles. Our firm’s community planning expertise is complemented and informed by our focus on public health, equity, sustainability and program evaluation. To address the complexity of communities, Raimi + Associates integrates a host of interrelated subjects—from land use and design, to sustainability and green building, to public health and social equity, to public engagement and visioning—into planning and social research efforts at a variety of scales. Our work focuses on four practice areas: Community Planning, including citywide general and comprehensive plans, vision plans, TOD plans, corridor plans and community engagement. Public Health, including healthy community elements and policy, community wellness survey’s, health impact assessments (HIAs), health surveys, mapping and analysis, and healthy development checklists. Sustainability, including climate action plans, GHG emissions inventories, LEED-ND implementation, and sustainability policy and analysis. Program evaluation and community assessments. We are a small firm and, while we work on large-scale planning projects, we provide focused, individualized attention to each client. We pride ourselves on establishing strong working relationships with clients, maintaining our ideals of great communities, and, most of all, having fun with our work. In 2015 R+A the National American Planning Association (APA) named R+A the Best Emerging Planning and Design Firm.