In an era of shrinking budgets, planners have a viable option for achieving their conservation goals—working closely with land trusts and other NGOs. This session explores how public planning agencies from Seattle to Nashville have partnered with private organizations to develop and implement metropolitan-scale conservation plans. Take home skills for creating public-private partnerships capable of achieving conservation goals that would not otherwise be possible.
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Ole M. Amundsen III
Strategic Conservation Program Manager
The Conservation Fund
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Bio: Ole Amundsen III is the manager of the Strategic Conservation Planning Program with The Conservation Fund. Ole brings over 20 years of experience in the environmental field and his skills in real estate, finance and conservation planning to help partners across the country reach their full potential. As a reflective practitioner, Ole is the author Strategic Conservation Planning, published by the Land Trust Alliance in 2011. Ole leads landscape scale conservation projects across the country for a focus on implementation. Before joining the Fund, Ole ran a success consulting practice and was a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. At Cornell, Ole taught several graduate level planning courses including “Strategic Conservation Planning”, that focus on creating Land Protection Plans for real land trust clients. Mr. Amundsen’s first workshop course at Cornell University won both the New York State American Planning Association award for outstanding plan and the national American Institute of Certified Planners outstanding project award for contributions of planning to contemporary issues. Ole has also served as the Assistant Director for Land Policy for Commonwealth of Massachusetts, worked as a contractor for the Department of Energy on risk assessment and wrote several of the regulations for the Clean Air Act Amendments while at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Education: Ole holds a BA in Government from Colby College and a MS in City Planning from MIT.
Key Publications: 1) Amundsen, Ole and Susan Culp, "Conservation in a Broader Context: Land Trusts and Land Use Planning", Saving Land, Land Trust Alliance, December 2012. 2) Amundsen, Ole, "Strategic Conservation Planning" Land Trust Alliance, 2011. 3)Amundsen, Ole. W.Allen and K. Hoellen. Green Infrastructure Planning: Recent Advances and Applications. Planners Advisory Service MEMO, American Planning Association, May/June 2009.
Past Assignments: 1)“Avoiding Random Acts of Conservation: Setting Priorities for People and Landscapes” Panelist at March 2013 Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Conference, Rocky Mountain Land Institute, Denver, Colorado. 2)"Stragetic Conservation and Water Resources" March 2013 webinar with the Land Trust Alliance. 3)"Strategic Conservation planning and Capital Campaigns", 2012 Regional Conservation Partners Network Conference hosted by Highstead and Wildland and Woodlands, in Concord, NH. 4) “Land Use Planning and Land Trusts Part I: A Primer for Entering the Fray” with Dr. Tom Daniels, 2012 Land Trust Alliance Rally, Salt Lake City, Utah. 5)“Strategic Conservation Planning Process and Lessons Learned” with Wink Hastings,at the 2012 Landscapes: Improving Conservation in the Northeast Mega-region Conference hosted by Regional Plan Association, New York, NY.
Thomas L. Daniels
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
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Bio: Professor, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
Education: B.A. in Economics - Harvard University M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics - University of Newcastle, UK Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics - Oregon State University
Key Publications: When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth on the Metropolitan Fringe (Island Press, 1998) The Environmental Planning Handbook (APA 2003) The Small Town Planning Handbook, 3rd ed. (APA 2007) The Planners Guide to CommunityViz (APA 2011)
Other Publications: Small Town Design: Getting It Right,Planning, June 2007, pp. 36-39. The Next Big Things, Planning, August-September, 2004.
Past Assignments: "St. Lucie County TDR Ordinance and New Urbanism Design," Congress for the New Urbanism, Philadelphia, PA, May 19, 2007. "Planning in the Rural-Urban Fringe," American Planning Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 15, 2007. “Managing When City and Country Collide,” Leading Edge Conference, Burlington, Ontario, Canada (Keynote address), October 4, 2006.
Richard Pruetz, FAICP
Consultant
Plng & Implementation Strategies
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Bio: Rick Pruetz is a self-employed planning consultant specializing in open space preservation, particularly through transfer of development rights (TDR). He has prepared TDR studies and/or ordinances for over 23 cities and counties and conducted over 70 TDR workshops and presentations in 26 states. He has been a professional planner since 1979, serving for over 14 years as the Asst. Community Development Director/City Planner of Burbank, California. Prior to that, he was a historic preservation/downtown revitalization planner with Waukesha, Wisconsin and an environmental planner with Camp Dresser McKee.
Education: Rick Pruetz received a Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 1979. He also holds a masters degree from Northwestern University and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
Key Publications: Lasting Value: Open Space Planning and Preservation Successes was published by the American Planning Association in 2012. The TDR Handbook: Designing and Implementing Transfer of Development Rights Programs (with Arthur C. Nelson and Doug Woodruff) was published by Island Press in 2012. Beyond Takings and Givings: Saving Natural Areas, Farmland and Historic Landmarks with Transfer of Development Rights and Density Transfer Charges was publsihed by Arje Press in 2003. He also authored two other books on TDR: Saved By Development (Arje Press 1977) and Putting TDR to Work in California (Solano Press, 1993). He co-wrote "TDRs and Other Market-Based Land Mechanisms" with William Fulton, Jan Mazurek and Chris Williamson, published by the Brookings Institution, June 2004.
Other Publications: “Is Your Community TDR-Ready?” with Noah Standridge, Zoning Practice, (American Planning Association), September 2009. “What Makes Transfer of Development Rights Work? – Success Factors From Research and Practice”, with Noah Standridge, Journal of the American Planning Association, Winter 2009. "TDR-Less TDR: A Transfer of Development Rights Approach That Custom Fits Transactions", PAS Memo, American Planning Association, August 2002. "Putting Growth in Its Place with TDR", Planning Commissioners Journal, Summer, 1998. "Viewpoint" (on the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's Suitum decision on TDR), Planning, APA, January 1998. TDR articles also published in Linkages, Environmental Monitor and APA's Commissioner.
Past Assignments: Rick Pruetz has made presentations on TDR at nine national APA conferences and over 70 of other locations including the following. - New Partners for Smart Growth National Conference, 2012, San Diego, CA. - American Farmland Trust National Conference, 2004, Lexington, KY - Urban Development Institute of Australia, 2004: Brisbane, Sydney, Perth - Mexico Insituto Nacional de Ecologia, 2003, Mexico City - Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, 2002, Denver
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