About Our Department

In Fate we embody a Strong Towns approach which advocates for development that results in a financially strong and resilient community beyond the first life-cycle of any given development. Strong Towns' principles include: 

• Relies on small, incremental investments (little bets) instead of large, transformative projects;
• Emphasizes resiliency of result over efficiency of execution;
• Is designed to adapt to feedback (seamless conversion of development to another purpose);
• Is inspired by bottom-up action (chaotic but smart) and not top-down systems (orderly but dumb);
• Seeks to conduct as much of life as possible at a personal scale (emphasizes places for people - vehicles are a subordinate consideration); &
• Is obsessive about accounting for its revenues, expenses, assets and long term liabilities (do the math).