Projects

From vision to action.

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Puget Sound Middle Housing Feasibility Analysis

Cascadia Partners tested eight middle housing types across Puget Sound markets for Washington Commerce, with data scaled to every jurisdiction in the state.

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Asheville Missing Middle Housing Initiative

Cascadia Partners showed where middle housing in Asheville can pencil for builders and stay attainable for workers, and where displacement risk calls for protections.

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Fort Collins Land Use Code Modeling and Analysis

Cascadia Partners modeled Fort Collins' new Land Use Code zone by zone; the adopted changes raised zoned housing capacity by 53%.

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San Joaquin Council of Governments 2022 Regional Transportation Plan Scenarios

Cascadia Partners led the scenario planning behind San Joaquin's 2022 regional transportation plan, whose adopted land use map grew from the preferred scenario.

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Omaha Growth Scenario Planning

Urban Analytics + Scenario Planning

Building a custom fiscal model that shows how each growth scenario would affect nine City funds, before Omaha chooses how to grow.

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Tahoe Housing Initiative

Housing Policy

Feasibility testing led to Tahoe Regional Planning Agency zoning amendments that lifted density limits and cut parking for deed-restricted homes.

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Columbus Zoning Code + Map Update

Urban Analytics + Scenario Planning

Housing capacity and feasibility modeling supported the Zone In code overhaul that Columbus City Council approved unanimously in 2024.

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Incremental Housing Infrastructure Impacts Study

Housing Policy

Cascadia Partners tested whether middle housing overloads neighborhood sewers, with case studies in four cities and an illustrated research brief.

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Portland Residential Infill Project Analysis

Cascadia Partners measured what Portland's Residential Infill Project built: 73% of new units in its first year were middle housing. The reports won a 2026 OAPA award.

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Flagstaff Development Code Update & Impact Modeling

Zoning + Code Reform

Code diagnosis and prototype testing led to recommendations to help Flagstaff build affordable housing and reach carbon neutrality.

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Sacramento Missing Middle Housing Feasibility, Affordability & Equity

Urban Analytics + Scenario Planning

Parcel-by-parcel modeling showed where middle housing would be feasible in Sacramento, supporting the code changes the City adopted.

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Wasatch Front Transit and Land Use Guide

Urban Analytics + Scenario Planning

Building web tools that let cities across the Wasatch Front test transit-ready policy against their own market.

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Nashville Housing & Infrastructure Study

Urban Analytics + Scenario Planning

Feasibility models for eight housing prototypes supported code changes heard by Metro Council and gave staff a tool to keep testing.

Spatial Planning + Placemaking

Conceptual planning, test-fits, streetscapes, and master plans that make places walkable, vibrant, and inclusive — with the design and economic analysis to show they can actually be built.

Visioning + Long-Range Planning

Comprehensive and general plans that frame alternative futures, surface trade-offs, and set a direction the community owns — not one it inherits from a process it didn’t trust.

Urban Analytics + Scenario Planning

Growth modeling, fiscal impact analysis, and policy evaluation that let communities test alternative futures before committing — decisions made with eyes open to uncertainty, not in spite of it.

Real Estate + Feasibility

Site feasibility, pro forma, public-private partnership structuring, and development strategy for public-sector clients navigating the gap between what a place could be and what the market will currently support.

Zoning Code Reform

Code audits, zoning updates, form-based codes, and design standards written for adoption and legal review — not just policy aspiration. Pro-forma-driven analysis that tests whether new standards produce the outcomes they promise.

Housing Policy

Housing needs analyses, production strategies, and middle-housing policy calibrated to local markets and state statutory requirements — so plans produce housing, not just goals.

Environment + Sustainability

Urban forestry, parks and open space planning, climate action, and environmental equity analysis — treated as a land use problem alongside core planning practice, not as a separate sustainability track.

How We Work

1. Road-Tested Futures

We structure work around alternative futures rather than a single recommended path, stress-testing strategies against market, regulatory, and political conditions before clients commit. Scenario planning, feasibility analysis, and housing needs assessments form the analytic foundation — so decisions get made with eyes open to uncertainty, not in spite of it.

2. Visually Striking Storytelling

Sophisticated analysis is only useful if non-technical audiences can engage with it. We translate quantitative findings, policy choices, and design ideas into plain-language narratives, diagrams, and renderings that a council member, a property owner, or a neighbor can see, debate, and act on — without simplifying the substance underneath.

3. Hands-On, Equitable Engagement

Quality process creates quality outcomes. We engage authentically, not transactionally — designing processes that meet people where they are, in their language, their venue, their schedule, so communities feel genuinely heard, not simply consulted. We integrate that input with the technical work it’s meant to inform, to create outcomes shaped by the community.

4. Place-Based Designs

Two convictions drive our practice: a plan only matters if it can be acted on, and planning works best when it’s grounded in a real place. Every plan, policy, and analysis we produce is anchored to specific places — drawing on local form, history, and patterns of use so ideas can be visualized, debated, refined, and built. Grounding the work spatially is what makes spatial planning more than a label.

5. Market-Feasible Strategies

A plan is only as good as its adoption rate. We are clear-eyed about the financial, regulatory, and political obstacles to realizing equity and sustainability, and we build those conditions into the work from the start — pro forma stress-tests, code drafts written for legal review, strategies calibrated to what the market will actually support and build.