Gigi Cooper, AICP

Portland, Oregon

Gigi Cooper, AICP, is a planner with David Evans and Associates, Inc., a national multi-disciplinary consulting firm based in Portland, Oregon. She has three decades of expertise in land development and in transportation, water, and energy infrastructure projects—from developing plans and feasibility studies, to identifying funding sources, writing grant applications, and preparing NEPA documents. She has extensive experience in preparing successful land use applications, including comprehensive plan and zoning amendments. She develops area plans and implementing ordinances for local governments and has augmented municipal planning staff in reviewing development applications. She is currently a panelist for the Transportation Research Board National Cooperative Highway Research Program report Integrating Resiliency into Transportation System Operations. Her article “NEPA after 50: Protection or Paperwork?” appeared in the March 2021 issue of The Western Planner.