| Ray Quay is Assistant Director of Planning for Phoenix, Arizona, and previously served in the same capacity for the city of Arlington, Texas. Quay is the co-author (with Bruce McClendon) of Mastering Change: Winning Strategies for Effective City Planning (APA Planners Press 1988), and has prepared several articles for the PCJ. | Dealing With the Fear of Multi-Family Housing PCJ #23, Summer 1996 Telecommuting: Possible Futures for Urban & Rural Communities PCJ #12, Fall 1993 Good Communications; The Key to Good Customer Service PCJ #4, May/June 1992 Customer Service: What It Is & Why It's Important PCJ #1, Nov/Dec. 1991 |
| Suzanne Sutro Rhees, AICP, is a community planner with BRW Inc. in Minneapolis. She also edits "Planning Minnesota," the state's APA chapter newsletter, and is the author of "Reinventing the Village" (PAS Report No. 430, 1991). |
Gateways: Creating Civic Identity PCJ #21, Winter 1996 also reprinted in: 
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| The late Fred Riggins served as Chairman of the Phoenix, Arizona, Planning Commission. His "Suggested Do's & Don'ts" have been retitled in his honor. The "Riggins Rules" were brought to our attention by Bev Moody of the Arizona Dept. of Commerce. |
The "Riggins Rules": Suggested Do's & Don'ts for the Conduct of Public Hearings and the Deportment of Members of Boards, Commissions, & Other Bodies PCJ #13, Winter 1994 |
| Chris Robbins is an environmental planner, who also served as a member of the Northfield, Minnesota, Planning Commission. | A Nose for Nimbys PCJ #51, Summer 2003 |
| Richard J. Roddewig, MAI, CRE, is President of Clarion Associates, Inc. He is both a real estate analyst as well as a land use and zoning attorney. Richard is also a past Chair of the American Bar Association's Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee, and has written extensively on land use issues. | An Introduction to Takings Law (co-authored with Christopher Duerksen) PCJ #18, Spring 1995 also reprinted in: 
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| John Ronayne, Esq., is a partner in the Boston office of the law firm of Robinson & Cole. Ronayne has been active in the practice of real estate law for three decades. During that time, he has worked on transactions ranging from the acquisition and sale of existing commercial real estate to the acquisition and development of undeveloped property for commercial and residential purposes to commercial real estate lease transactions, representing both owners and tenants. Ronayne received his J.D., cum laude, from the Columbia University School of Law in 1969. He is a member of the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations, and the Massachusetts Real Estate Finance Association. | How Far is Too Far? PCJ #53, Winter 2004 |
| Joel S. Russell, Esq., is a land use planning consultant and attorney based in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was the founding executive director of the Dutchess (NY) Land Conservancy, and works with landowners, municipalities, developers, and land trusts on land planning, consensus building, and land use regulation. |
Overlay Zoning to Protect Surface Waters PCJ #54, Spring 2004 How Dimensional Standards Shape Residential Streets PCJ #50, Spring 2003 Land Trusts and Planning Commissions: Forging Strategic Alliances PCJ #34, Spring 1999 Diagnosing Your Community Before You Plan PCJ #26, Spring 1997 Rethinking Conventional Zoning PCJ #15, Summer 1994. Community Planning that Works (co-authored with Amy R. Naylor & Anne Tate) PCJ #8, Jan/Feb. 1993 |
| Donovan Rypkema is the author of numerous articles and publications, including The Economics of Historic Preservation: A Community Leader's Guide. He is Principal of Place Economics, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm specializing in the economic revitalization of downtowns and the redevelopment of historic properties. | Historic Preservation is Smart Growth PCJ #52, Fall 2003 also reprinted in: 
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| Brenda Lightner Scheer teaches in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to joining the faculty, she worked as an urban designer for the City of Boston, Massachusetts, and was a Loeb Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. | Urban Design: A Place in Planning PCJ #5, July/Aug. 1992 also reprinted in:
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| Irv Schiffman is a Professor of Political Science and former Director of the Master of Rural and Town Planning program at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Alternative Techniques for Managing Growth (Berkeley: University of California, Institute of Governmental Studies, 1990). Schiffman also holds a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law, and is former Chairman of the City of Chico Architectural Review Board. | The Property Rights Challenge: What's A Planner To Do? PCJ #21, Winter 1996 also reprinted in:
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| Keith Schneider is a journalist and editor, and writes from Benzie County, Michigan, where he also serves as Director of Program Development for the Michigan Land Use Institute, one of the nation's largest state-based land policy and advocacy organizations. | Farmland Protection: What's Behind the Growing Interest? PCJ #63, Summer 2006 |
| Tobin Scipione is a Massachusetts-based consultant who provides assistance in strategic planning and organizational development to non-profit organizations and state and local agencies. She also coordinates the Maine Safe Routes to School program and is former Executive Director of the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Prior to that, she served as a Program Coordinator for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission, also in Charlottesville. |
Preparing Successful Grant Proposals PCJ #56, Fall 2004 |
| Wayne Senville, is Publisher & Editor of the Planning Commissioners Journal. Before founding the PCJ in 1991, he was Director of Local & Regional Planning Assistance in the Vermont Department of Housing & Community Affairs. Senville also served from 1991 through 1999 as a member of the Burlington, Vermont, Planning Commission, including three years as its Chair. In 1999, he received the Northern New England Chapter of the APA's "citizen planner of the year" award. |
Crossing America: including Small Cities, Big Challenges; Rain to Recreation; First Suburbs; Village People; and Around Town PCJ #68, Fall 2007 Planning for Cemeteries (co-authored with Valerie Capels) PCJ #64, Fall 2006 Bright Ideas PCJ #61, Summer 2005; and PCJ #62, Fall 2005 Preservation Takes Center Stage (on reuse of historic theaters) -- included as part of PCJ #52, Fall 2003, Special Historic Preservation Issue |
| Lila Shapero, until becoming a state hearing officer in 2006, worked as a legal consultant and writer. Over the years Shapero has been involved with a variety of neighborhood-related issues, including housing and violence against women. She has also been an active member of the Ward 1 "neighborhood planning assembly" (a neighborhood association) on the east side of Burlington, Vermont, and served on the Burlington Electric Commission, which oversees the municipal utility. | Bowling Together: The Role of Neighborhood Associations PCJ #59, Summer 2005 |
| Robert J. Sitkowski, is a partner with the law firm of Freeborn & Peters, LLP in Chicago, Illinois, where his practice focuses on land use law, with a special emphasis on the legal aspects of smart growth and new urbanism. Sitkowski was previously with the Robinson & Cole law firm in Hartford, Connecticut. Beofre that, he worked as a city attorney and urban planner for local governments in Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. For five years before entering legal practice, he practiced architecture and urban design in Chicago and Pittsburgh. He is a registered architect, and a member of the AIA and AICP. | Procedural Due Process in Practice PCJ #31, Summer 1998 also reprinted in:
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| Kennedy Lawson Smith is a principal with the Community Land Use and Economics (CLUE) Group, a consulting firm specializing in downtown economic development. She served as director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's National Main Street Center from 1991 to 2004, and has worked with downtown, historic preservation, and civic organizations around the country. |
Downtown Economic Development PCJ #66, Spring 2007 Recycling Main Street PCJ #64, Fall 2006 Wanted: Downtown Grocery Stores PCJ #63, Summer 2006 What Makes a Town Center a Town Center PCJ #62, Spring 2006 The Supreme Court's Kelo Decision: Good News or Bad News for Downtowns? PCJ #60, Fall 2005 Downtown Hurdles PCJ #59, Summer 2005 Sizing Up Downtown PCJ #58, Spring 2005 Why Downtowns (Should) Matter to Planning Commissioners PCJ #57, Winter 2005
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| Amy Souza is a writer and editor living in Alexandria, Virginia. She has written on land use and environmental topics. |
Community Food Needs & Opportunities PCJ #63, Summer 2006 Planning for Dogs: Exercise vs. Restraint PCJ #55, Summer 2004
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| David Stauffer is a business and economics writer who focuses on land use in the Interior West. He is former planning board chair and current city planner for Red Lodge, Montana. |
Smart Messages PCJ #64, Fall 2006 Emerging Water Shortages Are No Mirage PCJ #54, Spring 2004
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| Debra Stein is the president of GCA Strategies, a San Francisco-based community relations firm specializing in controversial land use projects. She is the author of Making Community Meetings Work and Winning Community Support for Land Use Projects, both published by the Urban Land Institute. | Dealing With an Angry Public PCJ #37, Winter 2000
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| Ric Stephens is a Principal with Alpha Community Development, where he is responsible for community design services with an emphasis on green development. Ric has edited two books: the International Planning Organizations directory and the Plannerese Dictionary available from: |
What We Mean When We Say ... PCJ #68, Fall 2007. What We Mean When We Say ... PCJ #68, Fall 2007. Late Nights with the Commission PCJ #67, Summer 2007. Why are You a Planning Commissioner? PCJ #66, Spring 2007
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| John R. Stilgoe is the Robert & Lois Orchard Professor of Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard University. He is author of a number of books, including Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places; Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb; Common Landscape of America; and Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. | Teen Geography PCJ #19, Summer 1995 America's Joka-Machi PCJ #15, Summer 1994 Portals to Our National Heritage PCJ #11, Summer 1993 Walking Into Trouble: Planning and Physical Un-Fitness PCJ #4, May/June 1992 |
| Brian J. Sullivan, Esq. is a member of the Burlington, Vermont law firm of Burak Anderson & Melloni, PLC. He graduated from the University of Chicago with General and Special Honors and from Harvard Law School cum laude. Sullivan's areas of practice include environmental and land use law and telecommunications issues. He has represented communications providers, as well as municipalities, in a variety of environmental and land use matters. | The Telecommunications Act of 1996 PCJ #28, Fall 1997 |
| Evelyn F. Swimmer is a landscape architect and planner with the North East Regional Office of the National Park Service in Philadelphia. Her work involves providing design and technical assistance to local communities on developing plans for improving their river-related resources (under the federal Wild & Scenic Rivers Act) -- as well as trails, greenways, and parks.
Note from Wayne Senville, Editor, Planning Commissioners Journal: I had the privilege of working for several years (1983-1987) with Evelyn Swimmer and other planners in the National Park Service's Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. |
Sharing the Map: Public Involvement in Concept Planning (co-authored with Robert L. Potter) PCJ #6, Sept/Oct. 1992 |
| Anne Tate is an architect who also teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She served as the principal consultant for the planning & design charrette described in "Community Planning that Works." |
Community Planning that Works (co-authored with Amy R. Naylor & Joel Russell) PCJ #8, Jan/Feb. 1993 |
| Brent Thompson, an Ashland, Oregon, real estate investor and award winning building renvoator, served for 12 years on Ashland's Planning Commission and City Council. His travels to Europe and Latin America shaped his views on city management and land use issues. Thompson is a former editorial writer for the Ashland Daily Tidings, and has written numerous columns for Oregon publications on land use and transportation. He is a former president of the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy, and the Jackson County Citizens League (a Southern Oregon watchdog group). Currently he is on the advisory board of Alternatives to Growth Oregon, which questions the desirability of continued population growth in Oregon and the U.S. |
Sprawl Is Like the Weather PCJ #11, Summer 1993 |
| Tim Torma has worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 1995. He is a policy analyst in the Agency's Smart Growth Program. Torma's recent work has included projects related to environmental and health effects of school siting, and research and writing on school siting and planning issues. Torma has also been a contributing writer, editor, or reviewer on a wide range of growth-related publications, most recently Getting to Smart Growth II and Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community. |
Back to School for Planners PCJ #56, Fall 2004 |
| Hannah Twaddell is a Senior Transportation Planner in the Charlottesville, Virginia, office of Renaissance Planning Group. She has worked on transportation planning and public involvement projects in several states. With more than 16 years of experience in local planning, Twaddell previously served as Assistant Director of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (in Charlottesville) and as chief staff to the Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization. |
When Connecting Point A to Point B, What Happens to Point C? [on bypass highways] PCJ #68, Fall 2007. Fitting Roadways to Community Needs PCJ #67, Summer 2007. Let's Plan on Walking PCJ #65, Winter 2007. This Little Piggy Went to Market: The Journey from Farm to Table PCJ #63, Summer 2006. Corridors Through Our Communities PCJ #62, Spring 2006. No Such Thing as Free Parking PCJ #60, Fall 2005. Maneuvering the Money Maze PCJ #59, Summer 2005 Making the Connection PCJ #58, Spring 2005 The Future is Now: Mobility & Seniors PCJ #57, Winter 2005 Safe Routes to School PCJ #56, Fall 2004 The Deep Mystery of Traffic Congestion PCJ #55, Summer 2004 |