Case Study: Dover, Kohl & Partners enhances climate action planning with UrbanFootprint

Dover, Kohl & Partners plans for 70,000 new residents with UrbanFootprint

Dover, Kohl & Partners, an urban planning firm, needed to enhance its climate action planning capabilities to help vulnerable cities mitigate and adapt to environmental changes. The firm turned to UrbanFootprint and its advanced scenario planning toolkit to model the impacts of different land use strategies on factors like emissions and water conservation.

Using UrbanFootprint, the team was able to quickly build and compare multiple future scenarios for projects like the zoning code update in Lubbock, Texas. This allowed them to measure the environmental performance of sprawl versus compact development, effectively modeling impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and water usage to inform a new code that incentivizes sustainable growth. UrbanFootprint's preloaded data and intuitive workflows also saved the firm time and empowered more team members to contribute to scenario planning.

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