As a subconsultant to CNJA Architects, J.A. Brennan provided site planning, landscape design, and Phase 1 contract documentation services for the City of Everett's new animal shelter. The plan integrates a new animal shelter building and entry plaza with trails, off-site pedestrian connections, a park for large dogs and a park for small dogs, a cat walk area, parking and auto circulation, building service areas, and landscape plantings. In site planning the facility and other program elements, J.A. Brennan carefully considered connectivity with adjacent parks, building orientation, passive solar gain and wind exposure, safe pedestrian routes across vehicular areas, the role of landforms and the geometry of circulation and landscape elements, planting with respect to building function, energy efficiency, wetland buffers, and employee and visitor well-being. J.A. Brennan planned these elements to maintain natural drainage patterns to the wetland and retain stormwater on-site through biofiltration.