| Michael Allen, is an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm , Relman & Associates, which specializes in fair housing, fair lending, police accountability, public accommodations and employment discrimination litigation. He previously served as senior staff attorney and director of housing programs at the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, where he was involved in public policy and litigation on behalf of the housing needs of people with mental disabilities. | Why Not in our Back Yard? PCJ #45, Winter 2002 |
| The late David J. Allor was Professor, School of Planning, and Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, University of Cincinnati. He authored The Planning Commissioners Guide: Processes for Reasoning Together. |
The Commission Will Come to Order: Rules of Parliamentary Procedure for Planning Commissions, Zoning Boards & Boards of Adjustment PCJ #20, Fall 1995 Keeping Things in Order: Planning Commission By-Laws and Outline of Articles of By-Laws for a Planning Commission PCJ #14, Spring 1994 |
| Randall G. Arendt is a land-use planner, site designer, author, lecturer, and an advocate of "conservation planning". He is the author of more
than 20 publications including "Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character;" "Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide to Creating Open Space Networks;" Growing Greener: Putting Conservation into Local Plans and Ordinances;" and "Crossroads, Hamlet, Village, Town: Design Characteristics of Traditional Neighborhoods, Old and New."
Arendt has presented slide lectures in 45 states and five Canadian provinces on the topic of creative development design as a conservation tool. He has also designed "conservation subdivisions" for a wide variety of clients in 16 states. One community in Livingston County, Michigan, which has implemented conservation design over the past decade, has protected more than 1,500 acres through this approach, representing a land value of at least $20 million (its protection cost through more conventional means). |
Improving the Subdivision Review Process PCJ #50, Spring 2003 Growing Greener: Conservation Subdivision Design PCJ #33, Winter 1999 also reprinted in: 
Open Space Zoning: What It Is & Why It Works PCJ #5, July/Aug. 1992 also reprinted in:
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| Henry Arnold is a principal with Arnold Associates, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, in Princeton, New Jersey. The firm's practice focuses on urban sites, with special expertise in developing and using new urban tree planting techniques. Arnold studied forestry at Pennsylvania State University, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Landscape Architecture. He is the author of Trees in Urban Design, now in its second addition. |
Planning for Trees: Viewing Trees as an Integral Part of the Infrastructure PCJ #2, Jan/Feb. 1992 also reprinted in:
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| Mark Aumen, an environmental planner for Hull & Associates, Inc., has worked with the City of Springfield, Ohio in locating and obtaining funding for planning and redevelopment of selected brownfield properties. | Developing Brownfields, Not Greenfields (co-authored with Craig Kasper) PCJ #32, Fall 1998 |
| Carolyn Baldwin is an attorney with the law firm of Baldwin, Callen, Hogan & Kidd in Concord, New Hampshire. Her practice focuses on environmental and land use regulation. She has represented both applicants and opponents before local planning boards -- as well as municipalities whose decisions have been appealed. Baldwin has served on the Gilmanton Board of Selectmen (local governing body), as chairman of the Gilmanton Planning Board, and as a member and chairman of the Lakes Region Planning Commission. | Roundtable Discussion: Legal Issues Facing Planning Commissions & Zoning Boards PCJ #22, Spring 1996 also reprinted in: 
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| Timothy Bates, Esq., is a partner in the New London office of Robinson & Cole, LLP. He is the Connecticut State Chair of the International Municipal Lawyers Association and past Chair of the Planning and Zoning Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. He was formerly counsel to the Borough of Stonington, Connecticut. | McMansions & the Geometry of Zoning PCJ #66, Spring 2007 |
| Constance E. Beaumont has served since 1994 as the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Director for State & Local Policy. She is the author of How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities (and What Citizens Can Do About It); Smart States, Better Communities: How State Government Can Help Citizens Preserve Their Communities (1996); and Challenging Sprawl: Organizational Responses to a National Problem (1999). | Coping With Superstores PCJ #17, Winter 1995 |
| Bruce D. Bender is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Vermont Agency of Transportation. He is former Executive Director of the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Council, a regional planning commission with representatives from twenty-eight New Hampshire and four Vermont towns. Prior to this, Bender worked as a consultant in environmental planning throughout the northeastern states. He has also been a partner in a small manufacturing business. Having worked in both the public and private sectors, he is fascinated with the "creative tension between capitalism and social responsibility." |
Why Plan? -- A Note From the Trenches PCJ #2, Jan/Feb. 1992 |
| Pamela Blais is principal of Metropole Consultants, a Toronto-based planning company. Her work is aimed at assisting public and private sector clients to identify and understand urban change, and to develop effective strategies and policies in response. | How the Information Revolution Is Shaping Our Communities PCJ #24, Fall 1996 |
| Whit Blanton, AICP, is vice president of Renaissance Planning Group, an Orlando, Florida-based policy analysis and transportation planning consulting firm which assisted the Gainesville-Alachua County MTPO with its recent planning efforts. He also serves as Chair of the American Planning Association's Transportation Planning Division. | Integrating Land Use and Transportation PCJ #40, Fall 2000 also reprinted in: 
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| Carole R. Bloom is Director of the National Civic League's All-America City Award program. Previously, Carole worked as a neighborhood planner in the City of Littleton's Community Development Department. Before becoming a "professional" planner, Carole served for nine years on the Arapahoe County, Colorado, Planning Commission. She has been active in leadership training programs, including the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce Leadership Program, and the Littleton Leadership Retreat. | Developing Community Leadership PCJ #18, Spring 1995 |
| Michael Bodaken, is head of the National Housing Trust, which provides technical assistance to resident groups and nonprofit organizations interested in purchasing federally financed, affordable, multi-family housing developments. To date, the Trust has helped preserve over 3,600 affordable housing units. | Providing Affordable Housing (with Anne Heitlinger) PCJ #45, Winter 2002 |
| Terence R. Boga, Esq., is a shareholder in the law firm Richards, Watson & Gershon in their Los Angeles office, with a practice emphasizing First Amendment law. He is also the city attorney of the City of Westlake Village, California. | Zoning Adult Entertainment Businesses PCJ #51, Summer 2003
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| Elizabeth Brabec is President and found of Land Ethics, Inc., a firm which specializes in developing resource conservation strategies. She is also Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. As a landscape architect and attorney, Elizabeth has had over fifteen years experience in the field of resource and open space conservation. She was a contributing author to Randall Arendt's planning best sellers, Dealing With Change in the Connecticut River Valley and Rural by Design. She is presently focusing her research efforts on the conservation of open space. |
On the Value of Trees and Open Space PCJ #11, Summer 1993 |
| Carolyn L. Braun is planning director for the city of Anoka, Minnesota (population 17,500). Prior to this, she was a project planner with the city of Minnetonka, a suburb of Minneapolis-St.Paul. Braun has also served as a planning commissioner for thirteen years, eight as chair. |
Planning from Different Perspectives PCJ #24, Fall 1996 Memo to Planning Commissioners Subject: What Planners Do PCJ #55, Summer 2004 |
| David Brussat writes about architecture and urban planning for the Providence Journal, Rhode Island's major daily newspaper, and is a member of the Journal's editorial board. Most of his weekly columns address issues of design and development in Rhode Island's capital city, where he lives. | A Mix of Housing PCJ #23, Summer 1996 |
| Frank Bryan is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He has co-authored with John McClaughry The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale (Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 1989) -- a "radical" proposal for restructuring state and local government worth reading by anyone interested in local democracy, and is the author of Politics in the Rural States (Boulder: Westview Press, 1981). Bryan has also written for publications such as The New York Times and Newsweek. |
Rearranging the Deck Chairs PCJ #7, Nov/Dec. 1992 |
| Peter Buchsbaum, Esq., is a judge on the Superior Court in New Jersey. He formerly served as a partner in the law firm of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith, Ravin, Davis and Himmel, and was involved in land use and affordable housing law for over twenty years. Buchsbaum has been co-editor of State & Regional Comprehensive Planning: Implementing New Methods for Growth Management (American Bar Association 1993). | Transfer of Development Rights PCJ #31, Summer 1998 (accompanies feature article, Putting Growth In Its Place With Transfer of Development Rights) Changing Ways in the Suburbs PCJ #23, Summer 1996 |
| Steven R. Burt, AIA, served on the Planning and Zoning Commission for Sandy City, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, for nine years. He was a recipient, in 1990, of the Utah Chapter APA "Outstanding Achievement Award for Urban Design." He is a licensed architect and travels extensively throughout Asia and Europe as Vice President of Field Operations for Daw Technologies, Inc., providing Design/Build cleanrooms systems to the microelectronics industry. | Being a Planning Commissioner PCJ #24, Fall 1996 |