After 10 years as planning director for the

After 10 years as planning director for the City of Fort Pierce, Florida, Ramon Trias has formed Trias & Associates, a firm specializing in town planning and urban design. Based in Fort Pierce, Trias & Associates is working with national builder Lennar on a 1,056-acre traditional neighborhood development called Indrio Groves in St. Lucie County, Florida. Indrio Groves is one of the first new towns proposed under St. Lucie County’s Towns, Villages, and Countryside Comprehensive Plan Amendment (originally called the North St. Lucie County Charrette Plan), a 28-square-mile new urbanist plan that organizes growth into towns, villages, and countryside.