Every significant landscape starts the same way: with more questions than answers. What does this place need to be? Who will use it, and how? What does the community want — and what do they actually need? What are the environmental constraints, the budget realities, and the long-term goals that must endure beyond changes in leadership?

DG2 Design exists to answer those questions before a single shovel breaks ground. Our landscape master planning process transforms complex, competing priorities into a clear, actionable vision — one that guides decision-making for years, earns stakeholder trust, and makes every phase of implementation smarter and more efficient.

A master plan is not a wish list or a rendering. It is a strategic document grounded in rigorous site analysis, genuine community engagement, and the kind of professional judgment that comes from having designed parks, campuses, and corridors across dozens of different contexts. A good master plan tells you what to do first, what to save for later, where to spend, and where to hold back, and why every recommendation exists.

It also gives you something to hand to a city council, a board of directors, or a grant committee — a credible, well-documented roadmap that builds confidence and opens funding doors.

We typically begin in the field and in the community. Site inventory and analysis, documenting existing conditions, topography, drainage, ecological systems, and historic resources, establishing the foundation. Community engagement provides direction: what communities value, what they want changed, and what they want protected.
From these inputs, we define clear goals and objectives. We then translate that framework into a phased, prioritized plan with targeted recommendations for every area of the site.
When funding is limited, we design with that reality in mind. When there is room to grow, we plan for it, ensuring the landscape can evolve over time without losing its integrity.

We have guided the full range of master planning assignments. The city-wide Parks Master Plan for Ballwin, Missouri, covered seven parks, multiple facilities, and a greenway network for a community of 33,000 residents. The master plan for Belleview Farm Park in Wildwood balanced historic preservation requirements, environmental sensitivity, and public recreation goals on a 100-acre donated property. The Mitchell Park Master Plan in Kirkwood required integrating community preferences, ADA compliance, drainage improvements, and tree canopy preservation into a single, coherent vision for a beloved neighborhood park.

Mastercard’s 52-acre corporate campus in O’Fallon, Missouri, called for a sustainability-focused master plan organized around environmental stewardship, green infrastructure, and employee well-being — complete with measurable Key Performance Indicators to guide implementation over time.

Fogerty Park in University City started as an aging, underperforming neighborhood park and, through a community-driven planning process, became a model for how public investment and resident input can shape a genuinely better outdoor space.

You can expect a team that listens before it proposes. That means meaningful engagement: stakeholder meetings, public workshops, surveys—and a willingness to hear perspectives that may challenge the design.


You can also expect clear, responsive communication throughout the process, not silence between deliverables.


Most importantly, you can expect a plan you can actually use: not a document that sits on a shelf, but a prioritized, phased roadmap with the credibility to support grant applications, budget decisions, and community conversations for years to come.