The City of West Linn is within the Portland Metro area, along Interstate 805 on the western bank of the Willamette River. Anticipating closure of the local paper mill and a spate of I-805 interchange improvements, the City sought guidance on planning for the Arch Bridge and Bolton neighborhoods and the coming changes.

The entire Kansas City metro area initiated a series of corridor studies and plans intending to improve regional mobility and to enhance the quality of life in those communities impacted by regional highways. Shawnee, KS received a planning grant focusing on the Neiman Road corridor, the historic commercial heart of town wrestling with gradual disinvestment and commercial vacancies.

SCJ has worked for the City of Airway Heights on multiple projects, including a US 2 corridor plan, a comprehensive plan update, and a public art strategy. Working with a number of agency partners, SCJ completed the corridor plan within budget and in time to inform budgeting decisions for the City, the City of Spokane, and the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT).

SCJ led the new subarea plan to implement the comprehensive vision for a mixed-use reinvestment in Lacey’s developed central area. The project included close investigation of transportation and economic systems, suggesting strategies to reshape the arterial network and land use pattern to reinforce community identity, create new housing development opportunities, and build on the community’s nearby institutional assets and natural features.

SCJ provided a form-based code for the Hamilton Street corridor in a portion of the Logan Neighborhood. SCI translated the model and refined it to codify form-based standards consistent with the citys existing zoning ordinance. The new code language introduced new zoning districts keeping with the model, providing new standards that regulate street design, building placement and massing, building height, and various other elements related to building form and relationship to the public realm.

From the densely forested Cascades to the scablands carved by the Ice Age floods, Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail gives hikers, cyclists and, in some places, equestrians a taste of Washington’s diversity. State ownership of this linear park runs from west of North Bend to the Columbia River near Vantage—and continues from the town of Lind to the Idaho border. Western portions of the trail are largely improved, but portions east of the Columbia River remain in primitive condition, with support for its completion far from unanimous.