Category: Housing

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.

Auburn Rezone

Post author By dkendellto
Post date June 8, 2021
Categories In Completed Projects, Housing, Land Use, Planning, Project Management, Zoning
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Recently, Toyer Strategic assisted Westport Capital Investments with the re-designation and rezoning of approximately 37.1 acres in Auburn, WA from a combination of R-7 and R-20 zones to the R-16 zone. This change netted our client an additional 105 units. Processes involved: Comprehensive Plan Amendment Concurrent Rezone SEPA

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 […]

More on the National Housing Shortage

Post author By dkendellto
Post date March 25, 2021
Categories In Housing, Land Use, Real Estate Development, Zoning
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Nationwide #housing availability and affordability is a major economic and social issue. In some locations, it’s a crisis. Our company advises developers, but we also advise communities. And we’ve worked with a few #economicdevelopment organizations and cities in Iowa that recognize housing and population are keys to their future success. We aren’t involved in this project but we’ve been […]