Members' 25-Year Reminiscences

Edward W. Kleeman, AICP

City of Coronado, California

Coronado, after degrees, internships, and short projects, provided me my first permanent job as a city planner. I started as an Assistant Planner with the City in February 1978, and joined AIP a few months before it merged with ASPO. I was hired to do the City's first "Local Coastal Program" to comply with the State's Coastal Act.

By 1983, with the LCP adopted, I was updating the City's General Plan, doing the City's environmental analysis and most of the City's other advance planning tasks. As my title changed to Associate Planner and then Senior Planner, my duties expanded to cover most local and regional planning issues.

Since my education had been in "related fields" and not "planning," I have always relied on APA and the Association of Environmental Professionals to provide through publications, conferences, and workshops, the information I needed to effectively serve Coronado.