Omaha Growth Scenario Planning
Omaha, NE · 2025–present
Client: City of Omaha Planning Department
Location: Omaha, NE
Year: 2025–present (in progress)
CP Role: Lead consultant
Practice Area: Urban Analytics + Scenario Planning
Team: Alex Steinberger, Principal-in-Charge; Rachel Cotton, Project Manager; Martin Glastra van Loon, Visual Communications; Lanier Hagerty, Analyst; Anaïs Mathez, Planner
The Challenge
Omaha is updating its Comprehensive Plan, We Make Omaha, as its population ages and home prices rise. Each way of growing carries different long-term costs for the City, and the Planning Department wants to see them before it sets direction.
Our Approach
We will build a custom fiscal impact model that measures each growth scenario's effect on nine City funds, from the General Fund to sewer revenue, using land use outputs from UrbanFootprint. Residents will compare a reference case and three alternatives in workshops City staff can run on their own, and the results will shape a preferred scenario and a future land use framework map. In the first phase we designed the scenario process and chose the modeling tools.
Where It Stands
Watercolor renderings and early fiscal comparisons already show how each growth pattern would look on the ground and what it would cost the City over time.
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