Ben Campanelli heads AcquestCom, a communications site acquisition consulting firm which emphasizes working closely with government planning and zoning agencies when siting towers for industry clients. He has been involved with telecommunications issues the past fourteen years. Prior to that, he served in various positions with the City of Rochester, New York, including Deputy Commissioner of Buildings and Property Conservation. Campanelli is author of the Cellular Tower Guide, a resource manual for local officials, land-use planners and legal professionals on the wireless communication business and site acquisition process. Planning for Cellular Towers
PCJ #28, Fall 1997

Christopher J. Campbell serves in the Consumer Affairs and Public Information Division of the Vermont Department of Public Service. He previously worked as a project coordinator and independent consultant in community development and telecommunications. Taking on Telecommunications Planning in Your Community
PCJ #27, Summer 1997

Julie Campoli is a landscape architect and principal of Terra Firma Design, based in Burlington, Vermont. Campoli is also a member of the Burlington Development Review Board. Access Management: An Overview & Guide for Roadway Corridors (co-authored with Elizabeth Humstone)
PCJ #29, Winter 1998
also reprinted in:

Valerie Capels, AICP, is Town Administrator for the Town of Waitsfield, Vermont, and former Director of the Department of Planning and Community Development for the City of Montpelier, Vermont. Capels has a long-time interest in cemeteries and their role in our communities. Planning for Cemeteries (co-authored with Wayne Senville)
PCJ #64, Fall 2006

Sherry Plaster Carter, AICP, is Chief Planner in the City of Sarasota's Planning & Development Department, responsible for administration of Long Range Planning. Ms. Carter co-chairs (with her husband, Stanley Carter) Sarasota's CPTED program, and is co-author (with her husband) of Planning for Prevention, published by the Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute. She has many years' years' experience in planning and the related fields of real estate, banking and land development.

Stanley L. Carter is a Police Captain with the City of Sarasota's Public Safety Department, responsible for Special Projects and Long Range Planning. He has more than 25 years of law enforcement experience, including uniform patrol, investigations, narcotics, training, computer and telecommunications operations, crime prevention, and planning.

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in Sarasota, Florida
PCJ #16, Fall 1994

Michael Chandler is a planning consultant based in Richmond, Virginia. He is a former Professor and Community Planning Extension Specialist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, and co-founder of the Virginia Institute for Planning Commissioners. Chandler conducts planning commissioner training programs across the country, and is a frequent speaker at planning workshops. Michael Chandler's The Planning Commission At Work column has appeared in many issues of the Planning Commissioners Journal.
Also by Michael Chandler:
  • Zoning & Changing Lifestyles (with Greg Dale)
    PCJ #44, Fall 2001.
  • Zoning Basics (with Greg Dale)
    PCJ #42, Spring 2001.
  • The Planning Universe Poster
  • Joseph Coates is President of Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a Washington, D.C., research firm specializing in the study of the future. Coates has written, "Work in rural America," a report to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Technology. The Forces Shaping Our Communities
    PCJ #15, Summer 1994

    Thomas P. Cody, Esq., AICP, is a lawyer with Robinson & Cole in Hartford, Connecticut, focusing on land use and environmental matters. Prior to practicing law, Cody worked as a planner in the Denver, Colorado, area. He holds a law degree from William & Mary, and a masters in planning from the University of Colorado. The Supreme Court Takes on "Takings": v. South Carolina Coastal Council (co-authored with Dwight H. Merriam)
    PCJ #8, Jan/Feb. 1993

    Elaine Cogan, partner in the Portland, Oregon, planning and communications firm of Cogan Owens Cogan, is a consultant to many communities undertaking strategic planning or visioning processes. Cogan is the author of Now that You're on Board and Successful Public Meetings. Her column appears in each issue of the Planning Commissioners Journal. Cogan writes "The Effective Planning Commissioner" column appearing in each issue of the Planning Commissioners Journal. For a list of all of Cogan's columns for the PCJ.

    Abby J. Cohen, Esq., works part time for the National Child Care Information Center as the Region IX State Technical Assistance Specialist. She also works as an independent child care law and policy specialist. She has written and lectured extensively on child care legal issues, and is author of the Local Officials' Guide to Family Day Care Zoning published by the National League of Cities, and numerous other publications dealing with child care and zoning. Zoning for Family Day Care: Transforming a Stumbling Block Into a Building Block
    PCJ #3, Mar/Apr. 1992
    also reprinted in:

    Susan G. Connelly, Esq., AICP, is Vice President of Community Design for McStain Enterprises, Inc., a 35-year old "green" community developer and home builder based in Boulder, Colorado and is a member of the Boulder Urban Renewal Authority. She is a former deputy commissioner in the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development and a former Community Development Director for the Town of Vail, Colorado. Susan practiced land use and real estate law, including litigation, in Illinois and Florida for 13 years. Nonconforming Uses & Structures
    PCJ #2, Jan/Feb. 1992
    also reprinted in:

    James Constantine is the director of planning and research for the Princeton, New Jersey, office of Looney Ricks Kiss. Understanding & Making Use of People's Visual Preferences (co-authored with Anton C. Nelessen)
    PCJ #9, Mar/Apr. 1993
    also reprinted in:

    Clare Cooper Marcus is Professor Emerita in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught courses on social and psychological factors in the design of housing and public open space. She has written and lectured extensively on these topics, and is co-principal of the consulting firm Healing Landscapes in Berkeley.

    Among the books Clare Cooper Marcus has written are: House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home; Housing As If People Mattered: Site Design Guidelines for Medium-Density Family Housing (co-authored with Wendy Sarkissian, 1986); and Easter Hill Village: Some Social Implication of Design (1975). Clare is also co-editor (with Carolyn Francis) of the ASLA award-winning People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space (2nd Edition, 1998), and co-editor (with Marni Barnes) of Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations (1999).

    Considering Residents' Needs in Planning for Higher Density Housing
    PCJ #8, Jan/Feb. 1993

    James P. Cowan is a certified noise control engineer and manager of acoustical analysis for McCormick, Taylor & Associates, an engineering and environmental consulting firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also the author of Handbook of Environmental Acoustics, a reference book on community noise issues. Cowan has consulted on more than 100 acoustical projects nationwide, teaches acoustics courss at Drexel University, and has lectured extensively in his field. Community Noise: Dealing With a Growing Problem
    PCJ #14, Spring 1994

    Dr. David L. Crawford is Executive Director of the International Dark-Sky Association, and Astronomer Emeritus at the National Optical Astronomical Observatories, both based in Tucson, Arizona. He is active in many national and international organizations in both astronomy and in outdoor lighting. Understanding Light Pollution (companion article to Robert Prouse's Lighting Our Streets)
    PCJ #4, May/June 1992

    Timothy D. Crowe is a criminologist with over thirty years of experience in law enforcement, delinquency control, crime prevention, and architectural approaches to behavior management. He studied classics and architectural history in Florence, Italy, and holds a Master of Science degree in Criminology from Florida State University. He is author of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 2nd Edition, (Butterworth-Heinemann 2000). Understanding "CPTED"
    PCJ #16, Fall 1994

    Walter Cudnohufsky is a landscape architect and community planner, and principal of Walter Cudnohufsky Associates a six person firm in Ashfield, Massachusetts. He has worked in New England for many years on a wide range of community planning and design related projects, both for municipal and private clients.

    Cudnohufsky was also a founder of the Conway School of Landscape Design, and its director from 1972-1992. He also serves as a member of the Ashfield, Massachusetts, Planning Board. The Wendell Community Vision Project described in the PCJ article received an American Planning Association regional award for outstanding comprehensive planning in 1991.

    He has recently completed Vision planning work in Amherst, MA, Easthampton, MA, design guidelines for Downtown Northampton, MA and is currently working in Raynham, MA on a master plan, design guidelines and vision plan with Larry Koff Assocaites.

    Dreaming the Future: Community Vision Planning
    PCJ #11, Summer 1993

    C. Gregory Dale, AICP is a Principal with the planning and zoning firm of McBride Dale Clarion in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dale manages planning projects and conducts training for planning officials throughout the country. He is also a past president of the Ohio Chapter of the American Planning Association, and a frequent speaker at planning and zoning workshops throughout the country.

    Ethics & the Planning Commission reprints:
    cover of reprint set

    Dale is author of the Planning Commissioners Journal's "Ethics & the Planning Commission" and "Talking Transportation" columns.

    Many of Greg Dale's Ethics columns are available as reprints in:


    Also by Greg Dale:
  • A Question of Balance (on balancing community needs & property rights
    PCJ #60, Fall 2005.
  • The Impact of An Aging Population on Planning
    PCJ #57, Winter 2005.
  • Building a Sense of Community
    PCJ #55, Summer 2004.
  • Regional Approaches to Planning
    PCJ #53, Winter 2004.
  • Smart Growth
    PCJ #50, Spring 2003.
  • Zoning & Changing Lifestyles (with Michael Chandler)
    PCJ #44, Fall 2001.
  • Zoning Basics (with Michael Chandler)
    PCJ #42, Spring 2001.
  • Working With Consultants
    PCJ #33 Winter 1999 (part III); PCJ #32, Fall 1998 (part II); PCJ #29, Winter 1998 (part I).
  • Rene Davids is a partner in the architectural firm of Davids Killory. Both Daybreak Grove and Sunrise Place have received National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects, as well as other design awards. Designing Multi-Family Housing for Residential Neighborhoods: Sunrise Place & Daybreak Grove (co-authored with Christine Killory)
    PCJ #23, Summer 1996

    Christopher Duerksen is a land use attorney who directs the Denver office of Clarion Associates, Inc., a real estate and land use consulting firm. He is a former chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Land Use Planning & Zoning. An Introduction to Takings Law (co-authored with Richard Roddewig)
    PCJ #18, Spring 1995
    also reprinted in:

    Zoning for Aesthetics
    PCJ #7, Nov/Dec 1992

    Mary Helen Duke, AICP, Community Development Specialist, administers the Mountain Resource Center's "Economic Development Administration University Center Program (EDAUC)" at Western Carolina University, in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The EDAUC serves 28 counties in the Western part of the state, providing community development capacity building services to local governments and non-profits. Engaging Citizens in Planning
    PCJ #42, Spring 2001