Denver planner and this year’s Serenbe Institute Visiting Fellow, Jeff Winston, will present a lecture, “Rethinking Planning: Is There a Better Way,” at 4:00 PM Saturday, May 7 at the Serenbe Institute Studio. It will be immediately followed by a reception at Brigitte and Shelton Stanfill’s house. There is no charge and everyone is invited.

In more than 25 years of professional practice, Winston Associates has completed more than 35 comprehensive plans—for towns, cities and regions. The time is right to take a fresh look at the current state of planning—how well it really works, how it’s perceived by the general public, and how can it be made more transparent, understandable, less expensive and actually used in day to day decision-making by communities. The question posed is: does this require modest adjustments to what we do today, or do we need to reexamine our approach from top to bottom?