Services
Consulting across the whole arc of a project
Carol Crane has run these phases from the contractor's side for 25+ years. As a consultant she runs them on the owner's side, which is the same work with the incentives pointed the right direction.
Feasibility & Due Diligence
The cheapest problem is the one you find before closing. A feasibility review tells you what the parcel supports, what it will cost to get there, and whether to walk away.
Read more →Permitting & Entitlements
Plan review is a conversation with a reviewer who has a checklist and a queue. Projects move when someone reads what's actually being asked and answers it completely.
Read more →Short Plats & Subdivisions
A land division is an infrastructure project with lot lines drawn on it. The layout that maximizes lots on paper is often not the layout that survives review.
Read more →Critical Areas & Environmental
Critical areas don't make a site unbuildable. They make it a different site than the one you thought you were buying, and the difference is worth knowing early.
Read more →Stormwater & Site Development
Stormwater is where small residential projects discover they're infrastructure projects. Getting the requirements right early changes what the site plan can be.
Read more →ADU Planning & Permitting
Washington has spent several years loosening ADU rules, and jurisdictions have implemented that unevenly. What your lot allows depends heavily on who permits it.
Read more →Owner's Representation
Everyone else on the project is paid to deliver their scope. An owner's rep is the only party paid to protect the outcome.
Read more →Design & Consultant Coordination
Architecture, civil, geotech, survey and landscape each produce a correct set. Plan review is where you find out they don't agree with each other.
Read more →Construction Oversight & Quality Control
The approved drawings describe what should get built. Oversight is the process of confirming, repeatedly, that it is.
Read more →Custom Homes & Mixed-Use
The projects that go well are the ones where somebody holds the whole arc — site, code, design, budget, build — instead of handing it off in pieces.
Read more →Questions
How engagements work
Can I engage CLD for one service instead of the whole project?
Yes. Many engagements are a single feasibility memo or a stuck permit. Others run from parcel to certificate of occupancy.
Which service do most clients start with?
Feasibility and due diligence, or permitting when a project is already stalled.
Tell Carol about the project
The first conversation is a straight read on whether the project is workable and what it would take to move it. No charge for that call.