Over the last 10+ years, Logan Simpson has been assisting the Town of Jackson Wyoming and Teton County to help adopt an update of the forward-thinking 2012 Comprehensive Plan (previously completed by Logan Simpson staff member Bruce Meighen), which included a review of the Growth Management Program (GMP). The area is located on the edge of Yellowstone National Park and includes the Town of Jackson and many smaller communities. The GMP Review was an in-depth statistical and community-based check-in on how the previous plan had been functioning and allowed the team to systematically revise the plan through the identification of corrective actions necessary to better implement its vision. Looking back, the Plan shifted growth from rural areas into complete neighborhoods (over 60% into complete neighborhoods) and resulted in thousands of units of new workforce housing.

Following the success of the Comprehensive Plan, Logan Simpson worked with the Town of Jackson and with Teton County on an Integrated Transportation Plan to connect adjacent counties, complete neighborhoods, rural areas, and resorts using alternative modes of transit, and a Workforce Housing Action Plan, that surpasses most housing programs in the nation, by aiming to house 65% of people working in Teton County, and most applicably, the Land Development Regulations (LDR). The LDRs focus on codifying the Comprehensive Plan vision by modifying the transfer-of-development rights ratios; identifying sending and receiving areas; improving clustering requirements, and enhancing agricultural preservation by permitting new compatible uses, and allowing temporary uses.

Recently, Logan Simpson supported housing specialists with a series of community meetings and joint workshops with elected officials of the Town of Jackson and with Teton County to refine policies related to housing. The effort tiered off the recently updated Housing Nexus Study and included a needs analysis and recommendations for updates to the LDR Residential Linkages to adjust the workforce housing requirements related to targeted Area Median Income (AMI) levels and mitigation calculations. Logan Simpson is currently updating the LDR language to reflect the policy decisions that resulted from community meetings and joint workshops.