• Vice-president and senior principal at EMC Planning Group in Monterey • Assisting public agencies with CEQA and NEPA compliance for 20 years • Former presenter, Association of Environmental Professionals CEQA Workshop • Contributing writer of Environmental Mitigation Handbook for California’s Coalition for Adequate School Housing • Member of the Emerging Issues Committee and former director of the Association of Environmental Professionals • B.S. degree, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo • Can be contacted at 831-649-1799 ext. 203 or wissler@emcplanning.com

Andrew Crabtree • Division manager with the City of San Jose Planning Division • Overseas CEQA compliance in San Jose • Focuses in the areas of long range land use planning, environmental sustainability and polices and CEQA implementation for a public agency • Project manager for the San Jose Comprehensive Plan Update • Member of AICP • Masters degree in city planning and bachelors degree in design, MIT; masters degree in urban design, University of Tokyo • Can be contacted at 408-535-7893 or andrew.crabtree@sanjoseca.gov

• Principal project manager with David J. Powers & Associates • More than 15 years experience implementing CEQA • Focuses on preparation of EIRs and initial studies in numerous Bay Area jurisdictions including San Jose, Santa Clara, Redwood City, Mountain View, Morgan Hill and several school districts • Prepared the EIR for the Santa Clara 2010 to 2035 General Plan Update • Former principal planner in the City of San Jose’s Department of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement, managing the city’s compliance with CEQA and NEPA, historic preservation, urban run-off/storm water quality and private sector green building programs • Master’s degree in city and regional planning, University of California, Berkeley; bachelor’s degree in geological and environmental sciences, Stanford University • Can be contacted at 408-248-3500, ext. 106 or adanielsen@davidjpowers.com

• Partner in the law firm of Berliner Cohen in San Jose in the Land Use and Public Law Department, specializing in land use law and litigation for more than 35 years • Represents both private and public clients in obtaining and litigating land use entitlements for major development projects • Assists in the preparation of EIRs and related CEQA documents, and has personally tried several dozen CEQA cases, including several that have become leading cases on appeal • Speaker/teacher in land use and civil litigation courses and writer of chapters in legal reference books on exactions and land use entitlements/CEQA compliance • Recognized as Northern California Super Lawyer • J.D. degree, articles editor of Stanford Law Review, Stanford Law School; A.M. degree in applied physics, Harvard University; B.A. degree in physics, high honors, Swarthmore College • Can be contacted at 408-286-5800 or alf@berliner.com

• Shareholder and director of the Silicon Valley Law Group • Responsible for the firm’s environmental practice • Focuses on environmental litigation and compliance, defends enforcement actions, experienced in hazardous material site cleanups, development of contaminated sites, CEQA, water law issues, and environmental insurance • Represents clients before federal, state and local regulatory and political entities involving a variety of land use, permitting and enforcement matters • Recognized as one of Northern California’s top 100 lawyers by Thomson Rueters • Member of the executive committee of the environmental section of the California Bar Association • J.D. degree, managing editor of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law; B.A. degree, with great distinction, San Jose State University