In 1968, The RBA Group was founded to provide new town planning services for rapidly expanding suburban areas across the country. Community master planning involves the design and planning for transportation, housing, utilities, universities, parking, government service buildings, commercial and retail development, civic centers, public schools, and parks and recreation. Each element must work on its own and blend with others for the new community to succeed.

The RBA Group specializes in community master planning in the United States and overseas. We have provided planning for the development of a model city and destination resort on Fuga Island, fifteen miles north of Luzon in the Philippines. We also developed planning for new communities such as Columbia, MD, located on 15,000 acres, that provides housing for 85,000 residents and employment for 57,000 people. The town of Columbia is one of the few completely planned communities in the United States. Our planning process includes data inventory and analysis; land use and transportation planning; travel demand forecasting; environmental screening; site engineering; and an investigation of existing cultural resources.