Bright Futures in Planning?: A Conversation

Bio: Professor and Director, Institute for Community Planning Assistance / Center for Sustainable Communities, Department of Environmental Studies and Planning, Sonoma State University

Education: JD, University of California Hastings College of Law; MCP, University of California, Berkeley

Key Publications: Exactions and Impact Fees in California (Solano Press Books); Land Use Initiatives and Referenda in California (Solano Press Books) Growth Management and Aesthetic Regulation & Design Review chapters in California Land Use Practice (California Continuing Education of the Bar)

Past Assignments: University of California (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Davis) Extension: Planning and Zoning: Law and Practice; Planning Law and Legal Processes; Role of the Planning Commissioner; Design Review

Bio: President-Elect of the American Institute of Certified Planners; President of Teska Associates, Inc., a planning and landscape architecture firm in Evanston, IL (Chicago Metro); 35+ years professional practice in land use, redevelopment finance and sustainable community planning.

Education: BUP, University of Illinois; MUP, University of Wisconsin

Past Assignments: Recently presented Ethics Sessions at the Mississippi Chapter and Upper Midwest Planning Conferences.