The Regional Geography of Employment

Bio: Jeffrey Tumlin is an owner and sustainability practice leader of Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, a San Francisco-based transportation planning and engineering firm that focuses on sustainable mobility. Over the past 19 years, he has led station area, downtown, citywide, and campus plans, and delivered various lectures and classes, in 20 U.S. states and five other countries. His major development projects have succeeded in reducing their traffic and CO2 emissions by as much as 40%, and accommodated many millions of square feet of growth with no net increase in motor vehicle traffic. These projects have won awards from the General Services Administration, American Planning Association, American Society of Landscape Architects, Congress for the New Urbanism, and Urban Land Institute.

Key Publications: Author of Sustainable Transportation: Tools for Creating Healthy, Vibrant and Resilient Communities, published by Wiley in February 2012.

Bio: Mr. Beutler is a Senior Associate at Calthorpe Associates. His work there has included US and international master planning and policy efforts for public, private, and non-profit entities. Calthorpe Associates' focus is the creation of sustainable places through the coordination of transportation, land use, and urban design.

Education: Mr. Beuter received his Master of City Planning from UC Berkeley. He completed his undergraduate studies in business management from Missouri State University.

Bio: Ms. Belzer is the founder and president of Strategic Economics, an urban and real estate economics firm in Berkeley, CA. She has 30 years experience working on economic issues ranging in scale from regional growth management to individual development projects, and regularly speaks and writes on the topic of transit-oriented development (TOD). Her work has helped position Strategic Economics as a national leader in innovative economics research techniques that guide local public policy decisions based on sound market principals while fostering sustainable communities and creating places with lasting value. Additionally, she was central to the creation of the Center for Transit Oriented Development (CTOD), a three way partnership that includes Reconnecting America and the Center for Neighborhood Technology. The CTOD is known for its high quality research and innovative approach to TOD implementation throughout the nation and with a diversity of clients. Ms. Belzer’s recent employment related work includes an in-depth analysis of employment trends and the business environment of the East Bay region to inform future policies and planning decisions; an identification of transportation and land use strategies that can increase the effectiveness of future high capacity, employee-serving transit corridors in the Phoenix, AZ region; and a strategic land use assessment that identifies how existing and planned transit networks can best connect to the San Francisco region’s emerging job centers.

Education: Ms. Belzer received her Master’s in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Pitzer College.

Key Publications: - Infrastructure Financing Options for Transit-Oriented Development, 2013 -Transit and Regional Economic Development, 2011 -TOD and Employment, 2011 -Transit Oriented Development: From Rhetoric to Reality, 2002 -Hidden in Plain Sight: Capturing the Demand for Housing Near Transit, 2004. -CDFI’s and TOD, 2010

Past Assignments: Ms. Belzer is president of the Board of Directors for Community Economics Inc., a non-profit organization specializing in affordable housing finance. She is regularly invited to serve as a featured speaker at conferences and has served on multiple Advisory Panels for the Urban Land Institute and as a resource team member for over ten Mayors Institutes for City Design sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.