Our Coos County Progress Report: One Year, One County, Eight Jurisdictions
We've just published our first full progress report on UrbanForm in Coos County, and we're proud to share it. Bandon, Coos Bay, and North Bend launched publicly in October 2025. Unincorporated Coos County joined in August 2026. And this month, Coquille, Lakeside, Myrtle Point, and Powers came online, completing countywide coverage across more than 42,000 parcels on a single map.
Driven by major regional investments and economic expansion that threatened even more pressure on an already constrained housing supply, Coos County adopted UrbanForm almost a year ago to proactively grow capacity and capability in service of their region.
Spearheaded by the Southern Oregon Coast Regional Housing (SOCRH) alongside the Missing Middle Housing Fund, the Oregon Community Foundation, and key municipal leaders, the initiative united eight distinct, fragmented local jurisdictions under a single digital platform provided by UrbanForm.
Prior to the rollout, small municipal planning teams were overwhelmed with hours manually researching routine zoning queries, referencing documents in multiple different locations and modalities, while developers faced weeks of navigating opaque codes, split zones, and environmental overlays.
By converting complex municipal regulations into a digital "shared front door to opportunity", the region slashed land feasibility research from hours to minutes, giving overburdened staff the capacity to focus on strategic planning while empowering builders, real estate professionals, and property owners to move critical housing projects forward at record speed.
"By digitizing zoning at the parcel level, we're removing uncertainty and opening the door to faster housing development. This is exactly how we scale housing across Oregon." - Nathan Wildfire, Missing Middle Housing Fund
Today, that idea covers all of Coos County.
The part we're most grateful for is how the community has embraced it. Over thirteen months, people opened more than 16,500 parcel records, with activity roughly doubling in spring 2026 and holding strong since. Each of those lookups is a question somebody answered for themselves, which frees local staff to focus on the conversations that truly need them.
This work has been a genuine collaboration from day one. Coos County planners told us what they were still pulling together by hand, and we built alongside them. That's how parcel-level permit history from Oregon ePermitting, a regional permit activity tracker, and live land use and buildable capacity statistics all came to life. Those features now serve partner jurisdictions in Yamhill, Polk, and Morrow counties too, a gift from Coos County planners to their peers across the state.
As Palak Pandey, City Planner for North Bend, puts it,
"UrbanForm is my go-to resource every day. It's literally always open on one of my browser tabs."
None of this happens without the funders, champions, and city partners who gave their time and expertise on top of already full workloads. Southern Oregon Coast Regional Housing, The Oregon Community Foundation, the Missing Middle Housing Fund, CCD Business Development Corporation, Coos County Community Development, and the staff of every participating city: thank you.
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If your community is curious about what this could look like for you, we'd love to talk.
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