APA Welcomes 2006 Congressional Fellow APA is pleased to announce the selection of a fellow for the 2006 APA Congressional Fellowship for Urban Planning & Community Livability. This year's fellow is Brad Cantor from New York. He will be working for the House Livable Communities Task Force, hosted by U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer. Brad Cantor In 1999, Cantor was a planning intern for Albany's downtown Albany Business Improvement District (BID) where he researched and assisted in the design of a marketing package for business recruitment and retention in the district. Later, he was a planning intern for the Bronx Borough President's Office, Department of Planning where he researched the Harlem River waterfront and made recommendations for its future prosperity based on relevant history, previous plans and studies, stakeholders, demographics, open space access, and zoning. For two years, Cantor worked as Planning Aide in the Suffolk County Planning Department in Hauppauge, New York. In this position, Cantor represented the planning department at various town and board meetings and assisted in the first county-wide affordable housing auction for prospective low-income homeowners. Since 2003, Cantor has worked as a research technician and planning consultant in Long Island where he has written planning reports on zoning and fire codes, sewage and wastewater disposal, and environmental impact. He has also performed research to calculate the socio-economic profile of various communities within the county in order to develop economic development plans for those lagging communities. Cantor has recently written a preliminary design report addressing affordable housing, community empowerment, and alternative transportation for East Patchogue, and is also working on projects for the Long Island Fund for Sustainable Development. Click here to read more about APA's Congressional Fellowships. |
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