As part of its advisory services, Portico offers sustainable comprehensive planning for communities, districts, municipalities, incorporated towns, townships, counties and cities. Portico offers a wide range of planning for inner-city (core), urban, suburban and rural (open-agriculture) land uses. Drawing from working experience in domestic and international locations, Portico adds to its expertise by its affiliation with Columbia University's urban planning and real estate programs. Portico remains contact with leading thinkers in land use / urban planning and is proud to be associated with one of the foremost academic research institutions in the United States in this field. Mr. Roy Pachecano, as faculty at Columbia University, also teaches sustainable land use/zoning.