Ms. Alecusan will moderate the discussion by: Eric Hazelton, Brownfield and Sustainability Specialist, Ohio Development Services Agency; Nathaniel Kaelin, Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program Manager, Ohio Development Services Agency; and Sandra Kosek-Sills, PhD, Environmental Specialist, Ohio Lake Erie Commission, Ohio Balanced Growth Program Diane Alecusan (MCRP, Ohio State University) is an Urban Revitalization Specialist, Ohio Development Services Agency

Kirby Date is at the Center for Community Planning and Development at Cleveland State University

Mark Barbash, an economic development consultant, will moderate a panel discussion between Bethany Dentler (Medina County Economic Development) and Rod Crider (Wayne County Economic Development)

Nancy Bowen, Assistant Professor and Field Specialist, Community Economics, Ohio State University Extension, will moderate the discussion between: Jonathan Ferbrache, LA, CPESC, Landscape Architect and Resource Specialist, Fairfield County Soil and Water Conservation District Denise King, Executive Director, Office of Farmland Preservation, Ohio Department of Agriculture Jill Clark, PhD, Assistant Professor, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University

Mr Bernstein will serve as moderator of the discussion between Eric Waggenbrenner (Wagenbrenner Development, Urban Residential Development) and Franz Geiger, NP Limited, Retail/Commercial/Office Development. Mr. Bernstein is President and Co-Founder, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois. Scott leads CNT’s work to understand and better disclose the economic value of resource use in urban communities, and helps craft strategies to capture the value of this efficiency productively and locally. Mr. Bernstein studied at Northwestern University, served on the research staff of its Center for Urban Affairs, taught at UCLA and was a founding Board member at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Center. He served on the President Clinton’s Council for Sustainable Development, where he co-chaired its task forces on Metropolitan Sustainable Communities and on Cross-Cutting Climate Strategies, and on other Federal advisory panels on global warming, development strategy, and science policy. Scott is a Fellow of the Center for State Innovation, a Board Member of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Congress for the New Urbanism, and works with governors, mayors and metropolitan organizations across the U.S.

President and Co-Founder, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois. Scott leads CNT’s work to understand and better disclose the economic value of resource use in urban communities, and helps craft strategies to capture the value of this efficiency productively and locally. Mr. Bernstein studied at Northwestern University, served on the research staff of its Center for Urban Affairs, taught at UCLA and was a founding Board member at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Center. He served on the President Clinton’s Council for Sustainable Development, where he co-chaired its task forces on Metropolitan Sustainable Communities and on Cross-Cutting Climate Strategies, and on other Federal advisory panels on global warming, development strategy, and science policy. Scott is a Fellow of the Center for State Innovation, a Board Member of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Congress for the New Urbanism, and works with governors, mayors and metropolitan organizations across the U.S.

Kirby Date, AICP, Center for Community Planning and Development, Cleveland State University, will moderate the discussion between: Todd Peetz, Planning Director, Portage County Regional Planning Commission Tom Stuart, Ohio Oil and Gas Association Shawn Bennett, Energy In Depth Ohio

Mr. Bise will be joined by Justin Goodwin (AICP, and Planner City of Dublin). Mr. Bise is Principal of Tischler-Bise of Bethesda, Maryland, has twenty years of fiscal, economic and planning experience and has conducted fiscal and infrastructure finance evaluations in twenty-seven states. Mr. Bise has developed models and applications used for evaluating multiple land use scenarios, specific development projects, annexations, urban service provision, tax-increment financing, and concurrency/adequate public facilities monitoring. Mr. Bise is a leading national figure in the calculation of impact fees, and has completed over 200 impact fee studies for local governments nationwide. In his six years as a planner at the local government level, he coordinated capital improvement plans, conducted market analyses and business development strategies, and developed comprehensive plans. Mr. Bise is the author of Fiscal Impact Analysis: Methodologies for Planners, a chapter on fiscal impact analysis in the book Planning and Urban Design Standards, and the ICMA IQ Report, Fiscal Impact Analysis: How Today’s Decisions Affect Tomorrow’s Budgets. Mr. Bise is currently on the Board of Directors of the Growth and Infrastructure Finance Consortium and recently Chaired the American Planning Association’s Paying for Growth Task Force.