Bio: I am the Director of Planning and Community Environment for the City of Palo Alto, California. I have worked for the City for over 12 years as a planning consultant and staff member, including the past four years as Director. I have a total of more than 30 years of planning experience in California and Texas, including prior positions as director or administrator of planning departments in Woodside, Los Altos Hills, and Rancho Palos Verdes in California and Environmental Officer in Austin, Texas. Planning responsibilities have ccovered a wide range of topics and disciplines, particularly focused on zoning, environmental review, and transportation.
Education: Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning, University of California at Los Angeles, 1978. Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1974.
Key Publications: None
Other Publications: None
Past Assignments: None
Bio: Mr. Smiley is an urban designer and founding partner of BMS Design Group, a firm with offices in San Francisco and Nevada City, California. He has 40 years of professional experience on projects for both public and private clients throughout California, the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Prior to founding BMS Design Group in 1994, Mr. Smiley was a Principal with Sasaki Associates for several years, where he directed the firm's planning and urban design practice in the San Francisco and Dallas, Texas offices. Throughout his career, Mr. Smiley's work has focused on planning and design for urban waterfronts and neighborhoods, urban and suburban revitalization and transportation-related planning and design. In addition to his work as a private consultant, Mr. Smiley has been a Lecturer and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, where he has taught urban design courses in the Program on Urban Studies. He has also served as a member of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Design Review Board, a state agency, since 1997.
Education: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design (with Distinction)1981. University of Oregon, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, 1972
Key Publications: "Saving the Working City", Planning Magazine, January 2005. "East Meets West at Sagami Bay", Urban Land, July 1992. "Protection of Land for Agriculture: Policy Practice and Potential in New England". Published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1990
Past Assignments: Mr. Smiley has been a frequent speaker and lecturer at conferences and seminars, including speaking engagements and publications for national APA conferences in Boston; San Francisco; Washington, DC; Chicago and Orlando. He has also been a frequent speaker at state and regional conferences of APA, AIA and ASLA.
Bio: Director of Planning and Community Development for the Cit of San Antonio. Former Director of Planning for Fresno, CA, Deputy Director for Los Angeles, CA, Oklahoma City, OK, Topeka, KS, Norfolk, VA and Aurora, CO.
Education: MCP, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, BA, Tulane University of Louisiana
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