Wyoming Zoning Best Practices Guide

Wyoming | 2020

Cascadia Partners worked with nonprofit planning firm Community Builders to create a best practices guide and toolkit to help jurisdictions in Wyoming audit and update their residential zoning. The guide focused on middle housing in single-family neighborhoods, reviewing the strengths, challenges, and contextual considerations for each middle housing type. Jamin was the lead author of the best practice guidelines. He identified common flaws in zoning for middle housing across nine topics, ranging from density to review procedures and suggested best practice code standards to remove barriers to middle housing, produce more compatible infill, and deliver affordable units. Cascadia Partners also produced a step-by-step guide for auditing residential zones and an intuitive, Excel-based tool for performing a quantitative and financial analysis of zoning standards. The toolkit is being promoted by the Wyoming Department of Commerce and distributed to jurisdictions across the state.