Category: Growth Management

Toyer Helps Amend Vancouver Warehouse Moratorium

Post author By dkendellto
Post date March 8, 2023
Categories In Business, Economic Development, Growth Management, Land Use, Real Estate Development, Site Selection, Zoning
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At the end of 2022, the City of Vancouver adopted an emergency moratorium on warehousing and distribution projects, arguing that the city was seeing too many large warehousing projects and were concerned about traffic, climate change, low employment density, etc. Toyer Strategic, working with several clients and local business organizations, completed outreach to the city, […]

Toyer Speaks to Sewer District About Growth Planning

Post author By dkendellto
Post date May 4, 2022
Categories In Economic Development, Government, Growth Management, Housing, Land Use, Planning, Zoning
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David Toyer speaks to the Lake Stevens Sewer District in September 2021, highlighting the challenges of growth management and providing insight into how this next round of GMA Comprehensive Updates will affect communities and sewer districts.

Wildwood Rezone Hearing

Post author By dkendellto
Post date March 1, 2022
Categories In Growth Management, Housing, Missing Middle Housing, Planning, Real Estate Development, Zoning
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Listen to our testimony in favor of the Wildwood Rezone in Issaquah, WA. Unfortunately, the Issaquah City Council did not vote in favor of the rezone, but our firm continues to work with this and other clients on developing missing middle housing.

What’s a CPP and Why Should You Care?

Post author By dkendellto
Post date May 27, 2021
Categories In Growth Management, Housing, Land Use, Planning, Real Estate Development, Zoning
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Long before new development breaks ground, local governments adopt policies that guide how they will plan and encourage development to happen. The policies are called Countywide Planning Policies or CPPs for short. And if you are at all concerned with how the County and your City get developed, you should want to know more. Now […]

Toyer Strategic Questions County Buildable Lands

Post author By dkendellto
Post date May 21, 2021
Categories In Growth Management, Land Use, Planning, Zoning
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Housing, especially the cost of housing, is a big issue these days. And that issue could get even bigger. In the lead up to Snohomish County’s forthcoming “major” update to its comprehensive growth plan, the County is first responsible for producing a Buildable Lands Report that looks at how the County has developed over time. […]