Avista hired us to consider how proposed transportation system designs may influence development opportunities in the South University District area of Spokane. The core element of this work was to understand the community’s vision for the area’s future and how individual development decisions can be consistent with those ideas.

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.

The Lincoln Heights District Center consists of a wide variety of uses, focused on a cluster of conventional 1960's-era shopping center. Traffic congestion, pedestrian safety, retail prosperity, neighborhood compatibility, bike access, public transportation services, and community aesthetic are primary concerns in this area, a place that accommodates commuter and local traffic on a busy arterial.

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.