Katie Cote, Aicp Email & Phone Number

I want to help people live fuller lives and have richer experiences in the built environment. My skillset as urban planner includes land use policy analysis, project management, climate resilience, project permitting, and anything related to zoning, development standards, and comprehensive planning. I also work with planning students as university instructor teaching the next generation of planners how be good listeners, thorough analysts, and able partners to the communities they serve. For each of my clients, I take time to understand the unique policy and environmental underpinnings facing their site, neighborhood, city, or region. With each project, I prioritizes clear communication, inclusion, and equitable outcomes. My clients benefit from the wealth of experience I have built though project work in planning laws and policies, climate change and climate resilience strategies, public engagement, middle housing, comprehensive planning, zoning codes, design guidelines, and environmental regulations. My time is split between a consulting practice at BHC Consultants and serving on the faculty of the University of Washingont Department of Urban Design and Planning as an affiliate instructor.Specialties: Land use planning, WA Department of Commerce grants and work products, zoning code updates, environmental planning, public engagement, equitable development, complex permit review, climate adaptation and resiliency, affordable housing, electric vehicle infrastructure, multi-disciplinary review coordination, design review, comprehensive planning, shoreline planning, historic preservation, adaptive reuse, small scale development, project management, policy development, permit preparation and review, preparing and reviewing SEPA, and urban history.

Listed skills include Land Use, Land Use Planning, Zoning, Affordable Housing, and 19 others.