Projects

As communities throughout Oregon recover from the pandemic, there is an increasing need for addressing parking congestion in downtowns and busy residential areas throughout the state. Further, new planning rules under the Climate Friendly and Equitable Communities (CFEC) program restrict the ability of many jurisdictions to require minimum parking counts for new development. To help…

Newberg is a city of 25,000 that lies about 25 miles southwest of Portland in the heart of Oregon’s wine country. The waning COVID crisis has combined with the steady growth of Oregon’s wine scene to create a downtown that is as busy as ever, featuring all the associated parking problems. Downtown Newberg has a…

Studio Davis was selected by Home Forward, a Portland housing authority that constructs and operates affordable housing communities, to perform a comprehensive study of transportation and parking impacts that will result from a proposed redevelopment of an existing affordable housing community in the Richmond neighborhood of Southeast Portland. This was a bit of a novel…

Working with our partners at Woodsong Associates, Studio Davis is consulting the nonprofit REACH West Central on an ongoing neighborhood revitalization project in Spokane, Washington. REACH was created in part to help administer and support a new tax increment financing (TIF) district, a wonky financing model that allow for anticipated future growth in tax revenues…

Audubon, like many of the South Jersey suburbs, grew up around the turn of the 20th Century on one of several competing railroads connecting Philadelphia to Atlantic City. The Merchant Street district surrounds the old train station, with a dense cluster of old stores and residences offering little off-street parking. The district was quiet for…

Yachats is a city of about 1,000 on the Oregon Coast, but on summer weekends the population can triple or more as visitors flock to “The Gem of the Oregon Coast.” Studio Davis prepared a comprehensive parking management plan for the downtown area. The planning process convened with a site visit and inventory of all…

Forest Grove, a city of 25,000 about 25 miles west of Portland, has seen steady growth over the past several years. It is home to Pacific University, which combines with the robust mix of retail, restaurant, and entertainment uses to create significant parking demand in its downtown area. Studio Davis conducted a robust analysis of…