| 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 Planning for New Downtown Development PCJ #9, Mar/Apr. 1993 |
| Lynn Richards is the Acting Division Director for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Development, Community, and Environment Division. | Managing Stormwater Runoff: A Green Infrastructure Approach PCJ #73, Winter 2009 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| John Rozum, AICP, is the director of the Connecticut NEMO program. He regularly delivers workshops and training to Connecticut's 169 towns, assisting them to implement land use practices that protect water resources. Rozum holds a M.S. in Land Use Planning and in Ecology, both from the University of Arizona. He has also served on his town's planning and zoning commission and on the board of directors of the East Haddam Land Trust. | Taking Low Impact Development from Research to Regulations (co-authored with David Dickson) PCJ #73, Winter 2009 |
| Della Rucker, AICP, CEcD, is the Principal of Wise Economy Workshop, a consulting firm that assists local governments and nonprofit organizations with the information and processes for making wise planning and economic development decisions. Rucker previously served as Senior Planner and National Lead for Economic Development in the Cincinnati, Ohio, office of Jacobs Urban Design + Planning. |
Why Comprehensive Plans Gather Dust PCJ #83, Summer 2011 Welcome to the Tightrope Act PCJ #82, Spring 2011 The Wise Economy PCJ #79, Summer 2010 |
| 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. |
Building Your Planning Process From the Ground Up PCJ #77, Winter 2010 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jim Segedy is the Director of Community Planning for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. Before moving to Pittsburgh, Segedy worked for many years in Ball State University's Community Based Planning program, providing assistance to more than one hundred communities and many plan commissions (as planning commissions are called in Indiana). He also served on the Planning Commission in Delaware County, Indiana.
Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy is the Associate Director for River Restoration for American Rivers' Pittsburgh field office. Before moving to Pennsylvania, she spent over a decade as a circuit-riding planner for a regional planning organization serving the western fringe of Metropolitan Atlanta. |
Inviting Them In: Using Story as a Planning Tool PCJ #83, Summer 2011 The Value of Debriefing Meetings PCJ #82, Spring 2011. The Tee-Ball Approach to Development PCJ #81, Winter 2011. What Planners Wish Their Planning Commissioners Knew PCJ #80, Fall 2010 Smoothing the Rocky Road PCJ #79, Summer 2010 Think Regionally, Act Locally PCJ #78, Spring 2010 Stand by Your Plan PCJ #76, Fall 2009 Are We There Yet? PCJ #75, Summer 2009 How Do We Get There? PCJ #74, Spring 2009 Community Self-Assessment: A Way of Looking at the Whole Picture PCJ #73, Winter 2009 Where Do We Want to Go? PCJ #72, Fall 2008 This Plan's for You PCJ #71, Summer 2008 |
| 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 has also served from 1991-1999 and 2008-present 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. |
Why Getting Good Grades Isn't Always the Answer PCJ #80, Fall 2010 Enjoying Each Others’ Company PCJ #79, Summer 2010 Dealing With Contentious Public Hearings PCJ #77, Winter 2010 Libraries at the Heart of Our Communities PCJ #75, Summer 2009 Downtown Futures: including Like a Business Park with Amenities; Behind the Curtains; Coming Together, Coming Back; A River Runs Through It; Downtown Housing; Future Downtowns; and National-Local PCJ #69, Winter 2008 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 |
| Brett Sheckler is an economist with expertise in finance, governance, and strategic planning. He has worked with governments for more than a decade at the local, state, and federal level and founded Integrated Economics in Seattle, Washington. | Integrating Physical, Economic, & Fiscal Considerations in Community Planning PCJ #79, Summer 2010 (co-authored with Brian Murphy). |
| 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 |
| 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. |
Pattern Books: A Planning Tool PCJ #72, Fall 2008 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 freelance writer and chairman of the Yellowstone Business Partnership. He is also a former city planner, planning commission chair, and city council member in his home town of Red Lodge, Montana. |
Getting Our Arms Around "Externalities" PCJ #83, Summer 2010 Planning See "Conventional Wisdom" Turned on its Head PCJ #82, Spring 2011 Planners Central to a Changing American Dream PCJ #81, Winter 2011 What's "Sustainable"? PCJ #80, Fall 2010 New Ways to Weigh Economy vs. Environment PCJ #79, Summer 2010 Stop, Look, Loiter PCJ #78, Spring 2010 Smart Messages PCJ #64, Fall 2006 Emerging Water Shortages Are No Mirage PCJ #54, Spring 2004
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| The late Debra Stein was the president of GCA Strategies, a San Francisco-based community relations firm specializing in controversial land use projects. She authored 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 the Principal for Stephens Planning and Design LLC, a consulting firm specializing in master planning, international development, and tourism planning. He is also currently Chairman of the Beaverton Planning Commission. Stephens has edited two books: the International Planning Organizations directory and the Plannerese Dictionary available from trafford.com. |
Civic Responsibility PCJ #79, Summer 2010 Where's Art in Planning (click link for free .pdf download) PCJ #76, Fall 2009 The Nine Circles of Planning Commission Hell PCJ #75, Summer 2009 Where's Art in Planning (click link for free .pdf download) PCJ #76, Fall 2009 Different Perspectives PCJ #73, Winter 2009 Ten Things to Avoid PCJ #72, Fall 2008 Planning Commission Physics PCJ #71, Summer 2008. The Importance of Cookies PCJ #70, Spring 2008. 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 |
| Rich Stolz works at the Center for Community Change and is based out of Seattle, Washington. He has worked extensively in low-income and minority communities across the United States, on a range of issues, including welfare reform and job creation strategies, transportation equity and environmental justice, and comprehensive immigration reform. Stolz helped to found the Transportation Equity Network, organized the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, and recently managed the Reform Immigration FOR America Campaign. He has written several articles on transportation policy and social equity. | Transportation Planning, and Its Relationship to Community PCJ #45, Winter 2002 |
| 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 |
| The late Evelyn F. Swimmer worked for many years as a landscape architect and planner with the North East Regional Office of the National Park Service in Philadelphia. Her work involved 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 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 |
| Gary Toth works with the Project for Public Spaces as the Senior Director of Transportation Initiatives program and the primary instructor for the Streets As Places program. He worked for more than 30 years with the New Jersey Department of Transportation, where he spearheaded many innovative projects and programs to promote techniques such as context sensitive solutions, complete streets, transit-oriented development, and smart growth. |
Transportation Planning for Livable Communities: Measuring What Matters PCJ #80, Fall 2010 [co-authored with Hannah Twaddell] |
| Hannah Twaddell is principal of Twaddell Associates, LLC, a consulting practice specializing in community planning, public engagement, facilitation, and education. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, the firm provides planning, facilitation, and educational services to communities, government agencies, and private organizations across the U.S.
Prior to establishing Twaddell Associates, Hannah worked for nine years with Renaissance Planning Group and, prior to that, for 14 years with the Charlottesville-Albemarle, Virginia MPO/ Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission. Twaddell helped to update the National Highway Institute course on land use and transportation planning, and developed an AARP study and webinar on designing complete streets for older drivers and pedestrians. For the National Academies Transportation Research Board (TRB), she co-authored NCHRP 582: Best Practices to Enhance the Transportation-Land Use Connection in the Rural United States (2007). Many of Hannah Twaddell's articles listed on the right are also reprinted in our two Transportation Planning booklets: 
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Transportation Planning for Livable Communities: Measuring What Matters PCJ #80, Fall 2010 [co-authored with Gary Toth] 21st Century Transportation Planning Challenges PCJ #78, Spring 2010. Planning for Public Transportation in Rural Communities PCJ #76, Fall 2009. Growing Safer: Improving Roadways for Everyone PCJ #74, Spring 2009. The ABC's of TOD: Transit-Oriented Development PCJ #73, Winter 2009. Happy Trails: Greenways for Everyone PCJ #71, Summer 2008. Ready for Car Sharing? PCJ #70, Spring 2008. 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 |