Presenter Biographies

San Diego and Chicago, 2006

Land-Use Law After the Four Supreme Court Decisions of 2005

Jennifer Bradley

Jennifer Bradley is the Federalism Project director at Community Rights Counsel (CRC). At CRC, she promotes state and local land-use and environmental initiatives and defends the ability of state and local governments to act as laboratories of democracy.

Prior to joining CRC, Bradley was a senior policy analyst at the Brookings Institution's Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy, where she worked on metropolitan development and urban sprawl. Bradley is the author, with Douglas Kendall and Timothy Dowling, of The Good News About Takings, a new book from APA's Planners Press. A former journalist, she has written for The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, American Prospect, and Washington Monthly. Bradley graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. She was a Rhodes Scholar and has a master's degree from Oxford University and a bachelor's degree, with highest honors, from the University of Texas.

Tim Bates

Tim Bates assists clients in meeting requirements for land development, particularly planning, zoning, and wetlands regulations. He appears regularly before planning, zoning, and wetlands commissions throughout the State of Connecticut and has brought and defended numerous court appeals of these types of decisions, including several involving Connecticut 's Affordable Housing Appeals Act. He is also a member of Robinson & Cole's Coastal Resources Management Center.

Mr. Bates serves on and is a past chairman of the Planning and Zoning Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. He has spoken to bar members and to planning and zoning officials on subjects such as the appropriate conduct at hearings, the legal limitations and role of planning and zoning commissions, and the effect of Connecticut 's Affordable Housing Appeals Act. Mr. Bates also has experience in the general practice of law, and, as head of the firm's New London office, can support client needs in other areas of practice.

Mr. Bates received his B.A. from Yale College, where he served as editorial chairman of the Yale Daily News. He graduated from Columbia Law School and clerked for the Honorable Robert P. Anderson, senior judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is admitted to practice in Connecticut 's federal and state courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Claims. He is a James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.

Tax Policies and Techniques That Support Planning

Arthur C. Nelson

Arthur Chris Nelson, FAICP, is professor and director of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Center in Alexandria. He is also a senior fellow with the school's Metropolitan Institute. For the past 20 years, Nelson has conducted pioneering research in land-use planning, growth management, public-facility finance, and urban-development policy. He has made notable contributions to the areas of development impact fees, farmland and forestland preservation, urban containment, the preservation of small-town character in the face of urbanization, and, more recently, the effect of metropolitan governance structures on metropolitan economic development. Recently, he served as an expert on smart growth for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Numerous organizations — such as the National Science Foundation; National Academy of Sciences; U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, and Transportation; U.K. Department of the Environment; Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Fannie Mae Foundation; American Planning Association; National Association of Realtors; and the Brookings Institution — have sponsored Nelson's research. His research and practice has led to the publication of eight books and more than 150 scholarly and professional publications worldwide. His published works include Planner's Estimating Guide, Growth Management Principles & Practices, and A Practitioner's Guide to Development Impact Fees from APA's Planners Press, as well as Urban Containment in the United States from APA's Planning Advisory Service

Nelson has earned teacher of the year honors at two universities and researcher of the year honors at a third, and his students have won numerous national awards, including the national student project of the year award given by the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has also received numerous commendations for his professional continuing education programs, through which he has instructed more than 3,000 professionals in technical planning and facility financing since the late 1980s.

Paying for Economic Development

Steve Friedman

Stephen B. Friedman, AICP, President, SB Friedman & Company brings over 25 years of experience in real estate and development advisory services. He has authored several articles, spoken at many state and national association conferences, and served on several community assistance panels. In 1994, he served as series chairman for the Urban Land Institute Chicago District Council's "An Agenda for Growth of the Chicago Region." He is a member of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors, holds the AICP designation as a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and is a full member of the Urban Land Institute. He is the current chair of the ULI Chicago District Council. He was recently appointed to the University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Planning and Public Affairs Advisory Council and is a trustee of his undergraduate college. Education: B.A. from Goddard College; M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gary Blakely

Gary Blakely brings more than 20 years of professional commercial real estate experience to his role as Director of Financial Services for U.S. Equities. With his in-depth financial proficiency in feasibility studies, complex deal structuring, transaction analysis, strategic planning and development of various spreadsheet tools, Blakely is a valuable resource for the firm's clients as well as its four primary business groups. In addition to overseeing the firm's analysts, Blakely provides expertise on all complex financial analysis and transactions and is charged with developing and creating finance-related analytical tools.

Prior to joining U.S. Equities, Blakely was a senior vice president, finance and development, with The John Buck Company, a full-service real estate company based in Chicago. He was responsible for managing development, acquisition, disposition and recapitalization of projects ranging from a $175 million, 1,200-room convention hotel to a $145 million, 30-story office building.

Previous experience also includes director of investment analysis for Homart Development Company (now General Growth Properties), a regional shopping mall developer, manager and owner; manager of financial planning and analysis for GTE Realty Corporation; and real estate analyst for Xerox Realty Corporation. Blakely also served as an architectural intern with the firm of William C. Selvage Architects in Salt Lake City, Utah; and was a missionary volunteer in Mexico with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Blakely received a B.S. in Business Management, with a minor in architecture, from the University of Utah; an MBA, with a concentration in finance and management policy, from Northwestern University J.L. Kellogg Graduate of School of Management; and is fluent in Spanish.

Growing Green, Achieving Sustainability

Katherine Daniels

Katherine H. Daniels, AICP, received her bachelor's degree in conservation of natural resources from the University of California at Berkeley and her master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Oregon. She has worked for 1000 Friends of Oregon, the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, and a variety of other state, county, and not-for-profit organizations across the country, primarily on agricultural, water, environmental, and growth-management issues. A co-author of The Environmental Planning Handbook and adjunct professor of environmental planning at State University of New York at Albany, she is currently senior planner for the New York Planning Federation.

Tom Daniels

Tom Daniels is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches environmental planning, land-use planning, growth management, and land preservation. For nine years, Daniels managed the nationally recognized farmland-preservation program in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he now lives. His research interests include the connection between land use and water quality, land preservation for wildlife habitat, and growth management.

Daniels is the author of When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe, and co-author of Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms and Farmland, The Small Town Planning Handbook, and The Environmental Planning Handbook. He often serves as a consultant to state and local governments and land trusts on growth management and land preservation.