Approach / Consulting
Consulting for cities and developers
Leonardo Silva Architecture helps municipalities, regional agencies, and small developers add housing that fits: infill, missing-middle types, and programs that make small-scale development easier to permit.
Feasibility studies
Site capacity, zoning and code analysis, unit yield, and order-of-magnitude cost for a parcel or a portfolio.
Zoning analysis · Yield study · Concept plans
Site evaluations
Constraints review for bluffland, floodplain, historic overlay, and substandard lots, with a path to approval.
Site memo · Constraints diagram
RFI + RFP responses
Design-led responses for municipal housing and land-disposition opportunities.
Concept package · Narrative
Infill + housing program advice
Code audits and practical recommendations to enable ADUs, duplexes, and small multi-family by right.
Program review
Pre-approved plan programs
Helping cities launch libraries of pre-reviewed home designs that cut permitting time and risk for small builders.
Plan set · Program guide
Background
Leonardo Silva chairs the Town of Medary Planning Commission and the La Crosse County Board of Appeals, serves on the Mississippi River Regional Planning Commission, and writes the Workforce Housing Newsletter.
Have a site or a program in mind?
Get in touch. No strings attached.