Presenter Biographies

Chicago, June 2007

Effective Zoning Techniques

James Duncan, FAICP
Duncan is one of the nation's leading urban planning and growth management practitioners. During his four-decade-long career, he has served more than 200 cities, counties, regions, and states, creating a series of award-winning comprehensive plans and development codes. He is a past president of APA, a former vice-chair of APA's Chapter Presidents Council, and the co-author of the APA Planners Press book Growth Management Principles & Practices.

Christopher Duerksen
Duerksen is managing director of Clarion Associates of Colorado, LLC, a land use consulting firm. He has represented local governments, nonprofits, and the private sector in a variety of land-use and zoning matters and specializes in development code revisions, growth management planning, historic preservation, natural resource and scenic area protection strategies, airport-area development, and market development strategies. A co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Duerksen has written and spoken extensively on land use issues in Colorado and nationally.

Craig Richardson Richardson is a planner and lawyer with substantial national experience in implementing comprehensive plans, drafting development codes, developing growth management strategies, and planning capital facilities. As vice president of Clarion Associates, he directs the firm's North Carolina office and has served as a principal in the preparation of development codes for numerous cities and counties.

Urban Design and Site Planning

Richard Collier, AICP Collier is a principal with Land Concepts Group. He has more than 25 years of planning experience. A major focus of his work is environmentally sensitive solutions to planning and design assignments. He has created master and land-use plans for local and regional parks, open space, trail systems, national wildlife refuges, cultural resources, resource protection and conservation areas, nature centers, and school campuses.

Prakash Pinto Pinto is an urban designer and architect with more than 16 years of planning and architectural experience. He is currently the studio director for the SMWM Urban Design and Planning studio. He provides planning and urban design plans for a diverse range of projects at SMWM, including large scale land use plans, campus master plans, streetscape plans, and design guidelines encompassing issues of public access, urban design and open space. He brings broad experience in working with communities, diverse client groups, and consultants in a collaborative context and a strong commitment to sustainable planning practices.

The Transportation/Land Use Connection

Bruce S. Appleyard, AICP Appleyard is a senior transportation planner/urban designer with Dowling Associates while he pursues his Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley. Recognized as a national expert in coordinating transportation, land use, and urban design, Appleyard has more than 15 years of experience working with communities across the U.S. as an urban designer, neighborhood planner, planning commissioner, graduate instructor, and MPO technical advisor. He was recently named one of the first 10 Active Living Heroes by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Network.

Collaborative Growth Visioning

Thomas Sanchez Sanchez is associate professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center and fellow of the university's Metropolitan Institute. He was involved in Reality Check Washington, a visioning process that brought together 300 elected officials, environmental and civic advocates, and business leaders in Washington, D.C. His graduate planning studio class developed the guidebook Through the Eyes of the Community: A Guide to Collaborative Growth Visioning, which will be published by APA's Planning Advisory Service.

Sophie Lambert Lambert is a senior associate at the Urban Land Institute, where she manages and supports smart growth and regional visioning projects and was also involved in Reality Check Washington. She has worked as a planner in private practice and with the Environmental Protection Agency's smart growth office. While earning her master's degree in urban and regional planning at Virginia Tech, she participated in the development of Through the Eyes of the Community: A Guide to Collaborative Growth Visioning.