Buck Moorhead is the principal of Buck Moorhead Architect, a Manhattan-based architectural firm, founded in 1984, focused on sustainable design. He is a licensed architect in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Over 28 years, the studio has designed and completed numerous projects throughout New York City and the region, including: large-scale re-use of existing buildings; residential, commercial, and institutional renovations; and new construction. He is an internationally Certified Passive House Designer (CPHD), working with the Passive House Institute in Germany, and is also North American Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC), working on projects that use 80%-90% less energy for heating and cooling. Buck is a founding partner of Building Consensus for Sustainability (BCS), a land use mediation and consensus building firm. BCS is presently working on ad-hoc regional collaborative efforts in the Upper Delaware River region, specifically around protecting water resources and forests. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, and studied painting and its role as a catalyst in architectural design at New York University’s Gallatin Division. His land-use education includes: the Pace Land Use Law Center LULA program, Ecological Land Planning and Green Infrastructure Design at Harvard, land use mediation and consensus building with the Consensus Building Institute and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and ad-hoc regional collaboration with the Public Policy Research Institute of the University of Montana. Buck assists the Pace Land Use Law Center in the training of local municipal officials and community opinion leaders throughout the region, including the mid-Hudson River valley and the Upper Delaware, specifically in the areas of collaborative processes and techniques.

George Rodenhausen is a partner in the firm and concentrates his practice in land use, municipal and environmental law. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, with a masters degree from NYU Law School, he has served as an attorney for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, vice president for environmental, health and safety affairs for a major multinational corporation, and land use, municipal and environmental attorney in private practice in New York and New Jersey. In addition to being an attorney, Mr. Rodenhausen is an AICP certified planner and a member of the American Planning Association. In his land use practice, Mr. Rodenhausen has represented citizen groups, not-for-profit organizations, developers, towns, villages, counties, and the State of New York, served as counsel to many municipal planning and zoning boards, and assisted municipalities as both lawyer and planner in the drafting of local land use and environmental laws, comprehensive plans and environmental review documents. He most recently served as Town Attorney of the Town of Hyde Park. In his land use practice, Mr. Rodenhausen has represented and assisted the Hudson River Valley Greenway Conservancy and Greenway Communities Council in developing and interpreting the original Greenway program and procedures, and represented and assisted the Dutchess County Department of Planning and Development in developing Greenway Connections, the first Greenway regional plan in the Hudson Valley. He also represents land trusts, historic sites and donors in the negotiation of conservation easements for the preservation of landscapes, farming and open space.

Seth McKee is Land Conservation Director for Scenic Hudson, Inc., based in Poughkeepsie, New York. Seth has led Scenic Hudson’s Land Acquisition Team since 2007, and has worked for the organization’s land conservation program since 1991. Seth has conserved thousands of acres of land for public enjoyment and natural resource protection, and has overseen the conservation of many more. He spearheaded the organization’s farmland protection initiative and in 2007 led the development of a new set of conservation priorities for Scenic Hudson. Seth has a Masters degree in Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining Scenic Hudson, he worked in land stewardship for The Nature Conservancy's North Carolina chapter, and in the 1980’s developed programs in Asia and the Pacific region for the U.S. Peace Corps. Seth is a member of the Advisory Board of the Land Trust Alliance’s New York Program. In his spare time, Seth is a member and former co-chair of the Town of New Paltz Clean Water and Open Space Protection Commission, and Chairman of the Conservation Committee of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference.

Since joining American Farmland Trust in 2001, David Haight has worked with more than 20 local governments to establish agricultural economic development and farmland protection plans. He aids state and federal legislators as they work on agricultural and land conservation legislation and has helped coordinate projects that have permanently protected more than 4,000 acres of New York farmland. Haight helped to author AFT’s Guide to Local Planning for Agriculture in New York and New York Agricultural Landowner Guide to Tax, Conservation, and Management Programs. His previous work experience includes evaluating the fiscal impact of land conservation for the Vermont Land Trust and work as an outdoor educator in New York’s Catskill Mountains. He holds a B.A. in environmental studies and political science from Binghamton University, an M.S. in natural resources planning from the University of Vermont, graduated from New York’s LEAD program and serves on the Land Trust Alliance New York Advisory Committee.

Ms. Levine is the head of Business Pursuit for Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital, responsible for screening of multifamily business for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The Business Pursuit Group is responsible for sizing, pricing and structuring of multifamily loans, submission to Freddie and Fannie for quotes and waiver approval, and issuance of applications to borrowers. She has worked at Wells Fargo and legacy companies since January 2008. Ms. Levine has 26 years of real estate finance experience, including 18 years specializing in GSE multifamily. Prior to Wells Fargo and legacy companies, she worked briefly at M&T Bank in the GSE group, and for 13 years in the Northeast Region of Freddie Mac. Her roles at Freddie Mac included Senior Underwriter, Manager, and Managing Director/Head of the Northeast Region for Production and Credit. Prior to Freddie Mac, she worked at MetLife Capital Credit making commercial real estate loans and equipment loans and leases, and at Sonnenblick Goldman, a real estate investment banking firm. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University.

Rick Schaupp, Senior Vice President, is the assistant portfolio manager for the Clarion Development Ventures II and III funds and Head of Sustainability at Clarion Partners. In these roles, he shares portfolio management responsibilities for the Clarion Development Ventures series of funds, and leads the firm’s efforts in running Clarion Partners’ assets as efficiently as possible and in a sustainable manner. At Clarion Partners, Rick has participated in the acquisition, asset management, and development management of over $1.5 billion of real estate and the restructuring of over $150 million of securitized loans. Under his guidance, the firm’s office portfolio has achieved an average Energy Star rating of 75 with over half of the portfolio achieving the Energy Star Label. In addition,13 assets have achieved LEED certification including two within Clarion Development Ventures. Rick joined Clarion Partners in 2005 and began working in the real estate industry in 1995.

Mr. Torre is responsible for arranging debt and equity for the firm's clients and creating and maintaining institutional relationships. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Torre spent eight years at Bank of America, most recently serving as a Managing Director of Northeast Originations for the Real Estate Structured Finance Group. During his tenure at Bank of America he was responsible for originating over $5 billion of loans for securitization. Prior to Bank of America, Mr. Torre spent eight years at the former Chase Manhattan Bank, where he began his career in commercial real estate finance. Mr. Torre holds a Bachelors degree from the College of Mount Saint Vincent.

Michael Weinstock is Group Vice President and a member of the Bank’s Senior Management Team. Michael is responsible for the M&T Bank’s Commercial Real Estate activities in the Tarrytown region, covering Connecticut, Westchester and Rockland. Prior to Commercial Real Estate Michael was a Group Manager for the Middle Market Lending Group in Tarrytown. Michael joined M&T in July 1996. Michael has been in banking for over 28 years. He was previously employed with Barclays and Peoples Bank. Michael Weinstock is the Chairman of March of Dimes Westchester / Rockland / Duchess / Putnam County Division and hosts the area’s largest local real estate event with over 500 attendees annually. Michael is also a member of the Foundation Board for the Jewish Home for the Elderly located in Fairfield and formerly President of its men’s club. Michael is also active with the Ridgefield Incubator without Walls supporting its new business initiative, and a contributor to Westchester County Business Journal 2011 “The Real State of the Real Estate”. Roundtable. Michael resides in Ridgefield, Connecticut with his wife Judy and two children, and is active in coaching and other community activities.

Dr. Arthur C. Nelson, FAICP, is Presidential Professor of City & Metropolitan Planning in the College of Architecture + Planning at the University of Utah, where he is also Director of the Metropolitan Research Center, Adjunct Professor of Finance in the David Eccles School of Business, and Director of the Master of Real Estate Development Program

Mary Mahon joined Westchester County in February 2010, as Special Assistant to the County Executive with responsibility for overseeing the implementation of the 2009 housing settlement. She is also the County’s Director of Real Estate. Mary is a lawyer, and formerly served as general counsel of the MTA and the Long Island Railroad. Prior to that, she was general counsel of New York City’s Community Development Agency, which administered HUD funded community development block grants to programs throughout New York City. Before entering the public sector, Mary spent ten years in the law department of Smith Barney where as vice president and director of law, she had responsibility for a wide range of regulatory issues. Mary and her family have lived in Westchester County for the past 15 years.

William G. Balter, has been involved in real estate development for more than 15 years. Prior to joining with Mr. Wilder to create Wilder Balter Partners, Mr. Balter founded and ran Balter Properties Inc. In the early to mid 1990's, BPI was very active in purchasing and repositioning bank owned real estate. In addition, BPI actively redeveloped several mixed use, commercial and industrial properties. Mr. Balter's focus over the last several years has been on developing luxury and affordable housing in Westchester County. Mr. Balter holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Skidmore College and a Masters of Science Degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University.

Don Elliott is a Senior Consultant in Clarion's Denver office. Mr. Elliott is a land use lawyer and city planner with 25 years of related experience. He has worked on a diverse array of projects in his career at Clarion, including: • Land development codes, • Growth management studies and regulations, • Sustainability implementation strategies. • Transferable development rights systems, • Impact fee analyses and ordinances, • International land use and governance systems, • Design standards and guidelines, and • Urban redevelopment evaluations. Mr. Elliott has served as project director for major zoning and development code revisions in Detroit, Philadelphia, Winnipeg, Duluth, Kalamazoo, Cedar Rapids, as well as numerous smaller cities and counties throughout the country. He has drafted award-winning land use regulations for Denver and Aurora, Colorado, Routt County, Colorado, and Pima County, Arizona, and has spoken and written extensively on a wide variety of land use and legal topics. Mr. Elliott has served as the Democracy and Governance Advisor for USAID/Uganda for two years, and has consulted completed land use reform consultancies in India, Russia, and Indonesia. Mr. Elliott is the author of A Better Way to Zone (Island Press 2008), co-author of The Citizen’s Guide to Planning (APA 2009), and the editor of Colorado Land Planning and Development Law. Prior to joining Clarion Associates, Mr. Elliott served as Project Director for the Denver Planning and Community Development Office and was responsible for the Gateway and Downtown Zoning Projects. He began his career practicing real estate law for the Denver law firm of Davis, Graham & Stubbs. Mr. Elliott holds a master's degree in city and regional planning from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a Bachelor of Science degree in urban and regional planning from Yale University. Mr. Elliott is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a past president of the Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association, and a member of the American, Colorado, and Denver Bar Associations.

January 1987-Present Member of the White Plains Housing Authority, Chairman since 1995 Chairman of the Housing Committee-African American Men of Westchester January 2000-June 2010 (Retired) Commissioner, Westchester County Department of Transportation Set policy, established the operating/capital budgets, and oversaw daily operations of the Bee Line Bus system, and the Westchester County Airport. The Bee Line has an annual budget of $200M, employees over 800 people through a public/private partnership, and carries 32M passengers a year, making it the largest non-MTA operation in New York, and the 35th largest in North America. Westchester County Airport handles over 2M passengers a year, is one of the top three busiest corporate airports in the country, and there are over 1,300 people employed at the airport, which generates close to $1B in economic benefit to the economies of Westchester and Fairfield counties. Mr. Salley was responsible for developing the operating/capital budget for the Airport, and overseeing the operation of the 400 people in a public/private partnership that provides the critical services on a daily basis. 1981-2000 Deputy Commissioner, Westchester County Department of Planning Oversaw and directed all housing and community development programs of the Department including Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), HOME, Section 8 Rental Assistance, Rental Rehabilitation, Lead Safe Westchester, Housing Implementation Fund, New Homes Land Acquisition, and all other related programs. During this time period the Department provided funding for over 2,500 new and rehabilitated affordable housing units. 1973-1981 Director of Community Development, Westchester County Department of Planning Responsible for all CDBG and housing related activates which generated over $15M to revitalize targeted communities throughout Westchester 1972-1973 Transportation Planner, Tri-State Regional Planning Commission Served as a Planner in the Transportation Section preparing agency position papers on various transportation projects in the region. 1971-1972 Planner, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Developed housing plans and implemented programs for the largest community based non-profit community development corporation in NYC. 19770-1971 Planner, New York City Planning Commission Staff Planner in the Economic Development Section responsible for data gathering and plan development for targeted communities in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Education William Penn University 1963-1967 Bachelors Degree-Economies and Urban Design/Architecture, Hunter College, City University of New York Graduate School of Urban Planning 1970-1972 Masters Degree-Urban and Regional Planning Professional Certifications and Memberships American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) American Planning Association (APA) Urban Land Institute Military Service First Lieutenant-United States Marine Corps 1967-1970

John Saccardi has 40 years of consulting experience with special expertise in comprehensive planning, zoning, housing and community development, land planning and enviromental analysis. 40 years of professional experience. For the past 35 years, directed comprehensive consulting services to the Nassau County Urban County CDBG program, the fourth largest program in the nation, and to various municipal CDBG programs in their continuing eff orts to upgrade neighborhoods and business areas and provide aff ordable housing opportunities for senior citizens and fi rst time homebuyers. Directed the fi rm’s urban design eff orts in the County’s downtown revitalization initiatives, covering 30 downtown areas. Directed all housing eff orts including preparation of the Consolidated Plan, Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, a Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness and an Affordable Housing Study. Directed the firm’s efforts in the preparation of the successful Empire Zone application. Post Graduate Studies, Public Administration, New York University, New School for Social Research, 1971 ❙ Bachelor of Science, Community Planning, University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture and Art, 1968 ❙ American Institute of Certified Planners

Ken Schwartz, AICP, is the Practice Leader for Planning at VHB/Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., an integrated planning and design services firm headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, with offices in White Plains, Hauppauge and New York City. An award-winning NCI Charrette Planner® with over 25 years of experience, Ken has worked with dozens of cities and towns, public agencies, institutions and private developers, leading projects through the community process while building a shared vision for large and complex redevelopment areas. He is a consensus builder who specializes in the public participation process and “getting to yes” with diverse groups of stakeholders. His work includes a reuse plan for the former Symmes Hospital in Arlington, MA.; a new zoning district to enable future development along 300 acres of underutilized industrial and commercial land in East Providence, R.I.; revitalization of a multi-block area adjacent to the busy Ronkonkoma Train Station on Long Island; planning and permitting for over 5 million square feet of mixed use development adjacent to a commuter rail and Amtrak Station in Westwood, MA.; and numerous comprehensive plans for cities and towns throughout the eastern seaboard. He is currently working on the reuse plan for the former Calverton Naval Weapons Reserve Plant in Riverhead, New York. Prior to joining VHB, Ken was the Director of Environmental Planning and Permitting for the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport). While at Massport, he advanced the $1.2 billion Logan Modernization Program and directed environmental planning and permitting for a variety of Massport development initiatives.

EDUCATION Tufts University, M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy, 1986. State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, B.S. in Resources Management, 1977. EXPERIENCE Senior Planner/Project Manager, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB), Watertown, MA (2005-present). Responsible for managing a variety of projects for municipal, state agency, and private clients such as: Zoning rewrites and updates, and the development of other land use regulations Preparing master and strategic plans, and plans for open space/recreation and housing. Preparing downtown and village center revitalization plans. Providing technical assistance to Zoning Boards of Appeal in review of affordable housing projects Project planning and development and coordination of permitting on federal, state, and local level. Also responsible for marketing of land use palnning services and responding to Requests for Proposals and building the planning practice at VHB. Director of Planning Services, McGregor & Associates, P.C., Boston, MA (1983-2005). Responsible for managing a variety of land use planning, environmental permitting, and zoning projects for public and private clients. Also responsible for marketing of land use planning services. Faculty Member, Environmental Law, Boston University Metropolitan College Legal Assistant Programs (1990-1993). Co-taught environmental law class for paralegals. Director of Planning, Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, Inc., Cambridge, MA (1982-1983). Developed and implemented work plan for community action agency; administered state and federal grant programs; researched regulatory changes to energy, health, and housing programs. Teaching Assistant, Tufts University, Medford, MA, Environmental Law (1982). Assisted environmental law professor by teaching a weekly seminar to supplement academic course. Energy and Consumer Education Project Director (Director of Planning – 1982), Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, Inc., Cambridge, MA (1980-1982). Directed project to educate multi-ethnic community about energy conservation and utility consumer rights; reported on grant programs to federal and state government funding agencies; reviewed new regulations as proposed. Project Coordinator, New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. Syracuse, NY (1977-1980). Developed and coordinated environmental, energy, and consumer projects for research and advocacy organization.

Victor Dover cofounded Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning in 1987 and serves as Principal-in-charge. Along with his partner Joseph Kohl, Mr. Dover’s practice focuses on the creation and restoration of real neighborhoods as the basis for sound communities. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech and a Master of Architecture degree from the Suburb & Town Design Program at the University of Miami. Mr. Dover lectures widely around the United States and internationally on the topics of livable communities and sustainable development. Mr. Dover was cited by Architecture magazine as being among ‘‘the country’s best urban designers and architects.’’ Work by Dover & Kohl has been published in Southern Living, Urban Land, Metropolitan Home, and featured on HGTV, National Public Radio, CNN’s Earthwatch, and in BusinessWeek magazine. Their projects are also profiled in a number of planning textbooks, including The New Urbanism by Peter Katz, Community by Design by Kenneth Hall, Form-Based Codes by Dan and Karen Parolek, Sustainable Urbanism by Doug Farr, and Retrofitting Suburbia by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson. With John Massengale, Mr. Dover has authored a new textbook on The Art of Street Design, scheduled for publication by John Wiley & Sons in spring of 2013. Victor Dover was National Chair of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) from 2010 – 2012 and was the Founding Chair of the CNU Florida Chapter, the first of its kind. He is a CNU-Accredited Professional. He was a key player in the creation of the Form-Based Codes Institute and the National Charrette Institute, both leading think tanks for sustainable urbanism and community-based planning. Victor is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and winner of the John Nolen Medal for Contributions to Urbanism. He served on the core committee setting sustainable urbanism certification standards for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development rating system (LEED-ND).

The Department of Law, headed by the Corporation Counsel, supervises and directs the legal affairs of the City of Syracuse. The Corporation Counsel provides legal advice to the Mayor, City Departments, and the Common Council, as well as representing City agencies, such as the Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. The Department takes an active role in the City's economic development activities, public works projects, real estate transactions, ordinances, local laws, and all other public undertakings.

Professor Lind taught history at Cleveland State, led nonprofit advocacy organizations for 13 years and practiced law in Cleveland for eight years before joining the clinical faculty at C-M Law. During his 16 years as a clinician, he supervised the Urban Development Law Clinic that provided legal services to nonprofit community development corporations in Cleveland’s neighborhoods. In 2005 he received the Michael R. White award for public service from the Cleveland Community Development Coalition. He pioneered in the use of Ohio’s residential public nuisance abatement statute by nonprofit developers who brought civil actions in the Cleveland Municipal Housing Court to abate blighted housing conditions. He was co-counsel in cases brought against big banks, Wells Fargo and Deutsche Bank, to require their compliance as homeowners with local housing maintenance codes using nuisance laws requiring homeowners to be responsible for the harm caused by their property. Professor Lind authored several law review articles prior to retirement and now writes, consults and lectures on community development law and public policy.

Michael J. Vatter, Esq. (Pace Law ’03) is the City of Newburgh Fire Chief with responsibility for planning, coordinating and directing the overall activities of the firefighting, fire prevention, and code compliance bureaus. Since 1992 he has also worked for New York State Office of Attorney General, the law firms of Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman, and Dicker, LLP and Drake, Loeb. Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba and Rodd, LLP, practicing municipal and land use law. In his current role, Mike leads a team of seventy that provides for the safety of the citizens of Newburgh through strong code enforcement and fire prevention activities. Mike is also the Chairperson of the City’s Distressed Property Task Force as well as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Newburgh Housing Development Fund Company, Inc. (The Land Bank.)

David Dixon FAIA is the principal-in-charge for Goody Clancy’s Planning and Urban Design practice. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded him its 2007 Thomas Jefferson Award for “a lifetime of … significant achievement in [creating]… livable neighborhoods, vibrant civic spaces, and vital downtowns ...” David’s work has won national awards from the American Planning Association (APA), AIA, American Society of Landscape Architects, Congress for the New Urbanism, International Downtown Association, and Society for College and University Planning. As 2003 President of the Boston Society of Architects, he chaired the “First National Conference on Density: Myth and Reality.” David is a co-author of Urban Design for an Urban Century (Wiley 2009), which the Boston Globe's architectural critical, Robert Campbell FAIA, described as "The wisest, clearest introduction I know to the art and science of designing cities" and writes on emerging urban issues for periodicals and books published by the AIA, APA, MIT Press, Urban Land Institute, and similar organizations. As chair of the AIA’s Regional and Urban Design Committee, David helped shape the AIA’s response to Hurricane Katrina and went on to prepare the post-Katrina Master Plan for New Orleans, where he continues to work. Additional current and recent work includes a new high density, mixed-use, walkable downtown for suburban Dublin (Ohio); breaking down the barriers between campus and community for urban universities including Drexel, Ohio State, and the Aga Khan Liberal Arts University in Karachi; growth strategies for innovation districts including Kendall Square (adjacent to MIT), East Franklinton near downtown Columbus (Ohio), and “U” districts adjacent to the University of Washington (Seattle); downtown plans for Wichita, Asheville (NC), and New Orleans; and “Choice Neighborhood” revitalization plans for Baltimore, Columbus, and San Antonio. David earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University, Master of Architecture from University of Pennsylvania, and Master of Urban Design from Harvard University

As a Vice President and Director of Design at Project for Public Spaces, Inc., Meg directs work on new town centers and mixed-use development, focusing on the design and management of public spaces in new developments. She also facilitates community workshops that engage the public in the planning process. Meg’s projects have ranged from master plans for new town centers and adaptive reuse of industrial sites, to waterfront and urban park designs. A registered architect and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, Meg Walker has a broad range of experience in architectural and urban design, as well as planning, in both the public and private sectors. Ms. Walker is also an experienced facilitator and accomplished public speaker. Ms. Walker first joined PPS in 1994 after fifteen years of architectural practice with the firms of James Stewart Polshek and Partners, Buttrick White and Burtis Architects, and her own partnership, Ryzinski Walker Architects. After five years as the Planning Director for the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Meg rejoined PPS in 2004.

As the Director of the Neighborhood Development program at the U.S. Green Building Council, Sophie Lambert oversees the vision and implementation of all aspects of the LEEDND program including outreach to local governments, providing resources and technical assistance to project teams to help them implement LEED-ND, and promoting the certification program to developers from the private and non-profit sectors. She brings over ten years of experience in smart growth and urban revitalization to the position. Before joining USGBC in 2008, Sophie held two different positions at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Sophie holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History from Smith College, a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Tech.

Dr. Arthur C. Nelson, FAICP, is Presidential Professor of City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah where he is also Director of the Metropolitan Research Center. For the past thirty years, Dr. Nelson has conducted pioneering research in growth management, urban containment, public facility finance, economic development, and metropolitan development patterns. He has written nearly nearly 20 books and more than 300 other works. Numerous organizations have sponsored Dr. Nelson's research such as the National Science Foundation; National Academy of Sciences; U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Commerce, and Transportation; Environmental Protection Agency; Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Fannie Mae; American Planning Association; National Association of Realtors; Urban Land Institute; and The Brookings Institution. Prior to academia, Dr. Nelson managed his own West Coast consultancy in planning and management, and continues to provide professional planning services. In 2000, his professional planning, education, and research accomplishments were recognized with election to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners. In 2000-01, he served HUD as an expert on smart growth and growth management for the Clinton and Bush Administrations. In this capacity, he helped expand HUD's university scholarship programs and create HUD's doctoral fellowship program. Dr. Nelson is or has been an editor of Housing Policy Debate, associate editor and a department editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, associate editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs, and is a member of numerous editorial boards such as the Journal of Planning Education and Research and the Journal of Planning Literature. Dr. Nelson has earned scholarship honors at Virginia Tech, several teaching honors and scholarship commendations at Georgia Tech, and researcher of the year honors at the University of New Orleans. His books have shaped the field of impact fees, growth management, and urban containment. Dr. Nelson's writings have won national awards and international distinction. His students have won numerous national awards including the national student project of the year award given by the American Institute of Certified Planners. Dr. Nelson's current work focuses on how demographic, economics, and housing preference choices will reshape America's metropolitan areas over the next generation.

DAVID KOORIS, AICP (Connecting the Region), is the Director of the Office of Planning and Economic Development for the City of Bridgeport, CT. He previously served as Vice President and Connecticut Director of the Regional Plan Association, an independent, not-for-profit regional planning organization, founded in 1922, that focuses on recommendations to improve the quality of life and economic competitiveness of a 31-county New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region.

Kevin Dwarka, Ph.D., is a New York City based urban planner specializing in land use, sustainable development, and transportation finance. For the past fifteen years, he has served a broad range of public and private sector clients in Israel and the United States. With particular expertise in transit-oriented development and public private partnerships, Dr. Dwarka has played a leading role in the regeneration of urban neighborhoods as green, affordable, accessible, and economically vibrant communities. Prior to forming his own planning consultancy in downtown Brooklyn, he held senior positions at Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, New York City Transit, and the Israel Union for Environmental Defense. He studied urban history at Columbia University, transportation at UC Berkeley, and land use at Pace School of Law. In May 2012, he received a doctoral degree in public policy from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His dissertation analyzed the global trend of financing urban light rail systems through private capital markets. An Adjunct Professor at Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs since 2010, Dr. Dwarka teaches undergraduate and graduate seminars in land use regulation, urban economic development, and sustainable cities. Outside of urban planning, he is an avid architectural photographer and actively engaged with the New Israel Fund’s ongoing efforts to promote social justice and equality for all Israelis.

Professor Nolon is the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law and teaches in the fields of property, land use, real estate, and environmental law. He is the Founder of and Faculty Liaison to the Land Use Law Center and is also Director of the law school's Kheel Center on the Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes. Professor Nolon received his JD degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the Barrister's Academic Honor Society. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to develop a frameworklaw for sustainable development in Argentina, and has served as a consultant to both President Carter's Council on Development Choices in the 1980s and President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development. He has held a visiting appointment at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies since 2001. Most recently, Professor Nolon received the American Planning Association’s (APA) 2009 National Planning Leadership Award for a Planning Advocate, and was appointed to the APA’s Amicus Curiae Committee and to the Editorial Board of the Metro New York Transit-Friendly Development Newsletter. Professor Nolon’s writings include over a dozen law review articles and a number of books published by the West Group, the Environmental Law Institute, Cambridge University Press, and McGraw Hill. He is a frequent guest speaker at national, state, and local conferences.

Mr. Cappello is a partner on the Land Use/Environmental and the Municipal Law Teams. His primary areas of practice have been land use and municipal law since 1988. Mr. Cappello has represented private developers in multi-phase and large-scale commercial, residential, educational and mixed-use land use applications. He has also served as attorney for planning boards and zoning board of appeals throughout Orange and Ulster counties. John is the lead partner in Jacobowitz and Gubits' "Green Team," which focuses on advising a wide array of clients (municipalities, developers, manufacturers and businesses both small and large) on the opportunities available in this emerging field of law. Mr. Cappello has presented programs in the Hudson Valley focused on steps local governments can take to encourage "green development" and create "green jobs." John has also made a number of presentations on zoning and land use issues throughout the state, focusing on providing workforce housing, encouraging transportation orientated development, overcoming obstacles in the land use approval process, and the impacts of the Landmaster v. Town of Montgomery Appellate Court exclusionary zoning decision successfully litigated by Jacobowitz and Gubits on land use practice in New York State. John also serves on the Orange County Citizens Foundation Land Use Committee and the Patterns for Progress Affordable Housing Committee. Active in several charitable and civic organizations, Mr. Cappello is Vice President of Orange County's Regional Economic Community Action Program, Inc. (RECAP) and as Trustee for the Josephine Louise Public Library. John has served as vice-president of Mid-Hudson Habitat for Humanity, and is currently on the site selection committee of the Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh. John completed a marathon for the Leukemia Society Team in Training Program, and is active in fund-raising efforts of the American Heart Association Orange/Sullivan Heart Walk. And is on the 10% Challenge Committee for Walden, Maybrook and Montgomery, New York.

Steven M. Silverberg is a partner in Silverberg Zalantis LLP. He has extensive experience in representing developers and municipalities in land use, zoning and environmental law matters including litigation and appeals in the New York State and Federal Courts. Starting his career as an assistant district attorney and then working as a town attorney, providing counsel in such diverse areas as land use, zoning, contracts, construction, telecommunications and employment law, prepared him for the services he continues to provide to businesses, municipalities and individuals. In addition to the approval process for residential and commercial development, he has negotiated complex development agreements and counseled clients in the financing of commercial projects. Steve serves as counsel to several corporations providing services ranging from corporate organization and shareholders agreements to employment litigation. He has also counseled clients through all stages of construction projects including drafting of construction contracts, as well as litigation and arbitration of construction claims. He has previously served as special counsel for the Village of Wesley Hills, the Town of Eastchester, the Village of Bronxville, the Greene County IDA, the Larchmont Public Library and the White Plains Housing Authority. Along with Kathy Zalantis, Steve is Planning and Zoning attorney for the Town of Haverstraw and serves as special counsel to the City of Mount Vernon City Council, City of White Plains City Council and the Villages of Pelham Manor, Mamaroneck, Suffern, Tarrytown and West Haverstraw. Previously, as attorney to the Town of Mamaroneck and Mamaroneck Village Attorney, he counseled all Town and Village boards and commissions. Steve has also served as counsel to the Town of Greenburgh Zoning Board of Appeals and the Greenburgh Housing Authority, and was a Deputy Town Attorney in the Town of Greenburgh. Steven M. Silverberg visit superlawyers.com Steve is a former Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School where he taught state and local government law. He is author of "Subdivisions and Site Plan Review", a chapter in Warren's Weed New York Real Property Law (Matthew Bender, 1990), co-author of the book Wetlands and Coastal Zone Regulation and Compliance (John Wiley & Sons, 1993) and a chapter in American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts 3d, Vol. 31, "Zoning Proof of Inverse Condemnation From Excessive Land Use Regulation" (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1995). He also continues to periodically contribute articles to various publications on subjects such as condemnation and RLUIPA and serves as a member of the Board of Editors of the New York Real Estate Law Reporter®. Since 2010 Steve has been named to Metro New York Super Lawyers and has received the highest possible attorney rating by the Martindale Hubbell and Avvo lawyer directories. Some of the reported cases he has either briefed or argued include: •Avon Group LLC v. Mosdos Chofetz Chaim, Inc.12-CV-3827 (ER) United State District Court (SDNY, 2012) •Edwards v. Davison, 941 N.Y.S.2d 873 (2d Dep't 2012) •South Liberty Partners LP v. Town of Haverstraw, 82 A.D.3d 956, 918 N.Y.S.2d 563 (2d Dep't 2011) • Matter of Vinrus Corp. v. Village of Pelham Manor Building Inspector, 66 A.D.3d 690, 885 N.Y.S.2d 444 (2d Dep't 2009) • Xavier Contracting LLC v. City of Rye, 29 A.D.3d 687, 815 N.Y.S.2d 638 (2d Dep't 2006) • Chambers v. Old Stone Hill, 1 N.Y.3d 424, 774 N.Y.S.2d 866 (2004) • Bronxville Field Club v. Irwin Davison, 305 A.D.2d 591, 759 N.Y.S.2d 382 (2d Dep't 2003) • Wickes v. Kaplan, 304 A.D.2d 769, 758 N.Y.S.2d 383 (2nd Dept. 2003) In addition, he served as chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the Westchester County Bar Association from 1998 to 2005, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Westchester Municipal Planning Federation from 2001 to 2008, Chair of the planning board of the Village of Piermont from 2008 to 2009, Trustee on the Piermont Village Board from 2010 to 2011, Chair of the Education Board of the American Bar Association Law Practice Management Section (LPM) from 2009 to 2010 and the governing Council of LPM from (2009 to 2012). Steve is a graduate of Brooklyn College and the N.Y.U. School of Law.

Mr. Spitzer concentrates his practice on a variety of issues involving environmental law, renewable energy, sustainable development, land use law, municipal law, and real estate development. His practice involves numerous renewable energy projects, including representing municipalities, developers, land owners, and financing entities. His work, from project inception through successful litigation, includes some of the largest wind farms in the eastern United States, and he has also worked on landfill, gas-to-energy, biomass, and solar projects. He recently successfully represented a municipality in a case of first impression concerning a municipality's right to regulate power generating facilities based on greenhouse gas emissions. A primary part of Mr. Spitzer's work focuses on NEPA review and compliance with federal environmental statutes. His work includes environmental assessments for large-scale telecommunications projects and renewable energy projects. He counsels agencies and private clients on compliance with historic preservation laws, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and other federal environmental statutes and regulations. His projects include coordinating responses among federal and state agencies as part of federal and state environmental assessments. He brings a strong background in municipal affairs from an earlier era in his career, when he served as finance director for a sizeable city in Arizona. Mr. Spitzer's general municipal practice involves a wide area of services. He regularly counsels municipal clients on budgeting, leasing, environmental, zoning, assessment, financial, and other matters. His litigation experience includes tax assessment matters, land use issues, financial matters, and other issues before administrative and judicial forums. He assists developers and communities in development projects, including obtaining financial assistance and complying with historic preservation guidelines. Mr. Spitzer has successfully represented clients in local governmental and judicial forums, including cases involving local zoning and development decisions. He has drafted laws for municipalities on issues ranging from enforcing zoning codes to regulations under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He is well versed in the requirements of the State Environmental Quality Review Act and has guided many communities through the environmental review process. He also counsels clients on historic preservation issues, budgeting, assessment, condemnation, creation of water and sewer districts, and grant writing, among other matters. Mr. Spitzer's practice also includes work in areas concerning the valuation of property. He represents property owners and municipalities in condemnation proceedings and tax assessment challenges, from the initial filing of claims through trial. His clients include municipal redevelopment agencies, developers, and taxpayers throughout New York State. Mr. Spitzer is involved in a variety of matters affecting the placement of telecommunications-industry facilities in local communities, including preparing applications, drafting local laws, guiding the environmental review process under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, and representing both the industry and communities on applications before zoning boards of appeals, planning boards, and other governing bodies. He has successfully litigated municipal telecommunication issues in both federal and state courts, including several issues of first impression in New York.