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Gwendolyn
<br />Hallsmith is
<br />Director of
<br />Planning &
<br />Community
<br />Development for the City of
<br />Montpelier, Vermont, and
<br />founder of Global Community
<br />Initiatives, a non-profit that
<br />supports municipal sustainable
<br />development initiatives. She’s
<br />also served as a city manager
<br />(Randolph, Vermont) and
<br />regional planning director
<br />(Franklin County, Massachu-
<br />setts).
<br />Hallsmith has written on
<br />social, economic, and
<br />environmental topics, and is
<br />wrapping up her fourth book,
<br />Intentional Cities, Intentional
<br />Economies, to be published by
<br />New Society Publishers.
<br />Dave Stauffer
<br />is a planning
<br />consultant,
<br />freelance writer,
<br />and chairman
<br />of the Yellowstone Business
<br />Partnership. He is also a
<br />former city planner, planning
<br />commission chair, and city
<br />council member in his home
<br />town of Red Lodge, Montana.
<br />Stauffer has previously written
<br />two articles for the PCJ: “Smart
<br />Messages,” in our Fall 2006
<br />issue, and “Emerging Water
<br />Shortages Are No Mirage,”
<br />published in Spring 2004.
<br />Wendy Grey,
<br />AICP, is principal
<br />of Wendy Grey
<br />Land Use
<br />Planning LLC
<br />which works with public,
<br />private, and non-profit clients.
<br />Prior to establishing her own
<br />firm in 2002, Grey spent 20
<br />years in the public sector
<br />dealing with development and
<br />growth management in Florida,
<br />Beth Humstone
<br />has worked as a
<br />planning
<br />consultant on a
<br />wide range of
<br />projects in rural communities
<br />and small towns. She’s an
<br />advisor to the National Trust for
<br />Historic Preservation and
<br />former Executive Director of the
<br />Vermont Forum on Sprawl
<br />(now Smart Growth Vermont).
<br />Humstone is also a past member
<br />of the Burlington, Vermont,
<br />Planning Commission, and
<br />former Chair of Vermont’s
<br />Housing & Conservation Trust
<br />Fund Board.
<br />In her “spare time,” Humstone
<br />co-authored Above and Beyond,
<br />Visualizing Change in Small
<br />Towns and Rural Areas, a book
<br />that we highly recommend.
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<br />PLANNING COMMISSIONERS JOURNAL / NUMBER 78 / SPRING 2010
<br />The public participation process for the new Comprehensive Plan
<br />didn’t gather the constituents Fred was hoping for.
<br />Our Contributing Writers
<br />Published in the PCJ courtesy of Paul Zucker, aka The Management Doctor.
<br />Drawing by Dean Vietor; caption by Joe Adkins. You can see Zucker Systems
<br />publications including their new cartoon book, Mis Management at:
<br />http://zuckersystems.com/public.html
<br />From PCJ Editor Wayne Senville:Just wanted to tell you a little
<br />about our new (and old) contributing writers. We think you’ll
<br />benefit from the variety of perspectives these very experienced and
<br />talented planners will bring.
<br />Jim Segedy, FAICP
<br />and Lisa
<br />Hollingsworth-
<br />Segedy, AICP have
<br />written for the
<br />PCJ since 2008.
<br />Jim is the
<br />Director of
<br />Community
<br />Planning for the
<br />Pennsylvania
<br />Environmental Council, and
<br />former head of Ball State
<br />University’s Community Based
<br />Planning program. Lisa is the
<br />Associate Director for River
<br />Restoration for American
<br />Rivers’ Pittsburgh field office.
<br />Before that she spent over ten
<br />years as a circuit-riding planner
<br />for a regional planning
<br />organization outside Atlanta.
<br />Hannah
<br />Twaddell has
<br />reported on
<br />transportation
<br />planning issues
<br />for the PCJ since 2004. She is
<br />a Principal Planner in the
<br />Charlottesville, Virginia, office
<br />of Renaissance Planning
<br />Group, with over 18 years’
<br />planning experience.
<br />Ric Stephens is a
<br />Senior Project
<br />Manager at
<br />Cogan Owens
<br />Cogan in
<br />Portland, Oregon, and Vice-
<br />Chair of the Beaverton,
<br />Oregon, Planning Commission.
<br />Stephens has written for the
<br />PCJ since 2007.
<br />including ten years as Planning
<br />Director for Tallahassee and
<br />Leon County. She’s also reported
<br />on planning issues for the
<br />Florida League of Cities.
<br />Carolyn Braun,
<br />AICP, is Planning
<br />Director for the
<br />City of Anoka,
<br />Minnesota, and
<br />Past President of the Minnesota
<br />Chapter of the American
<br />Planning Association. She holds
<br />a Masters of Public Affairs from
<br />the Hubert H. Humphrey
<br />Institute. Braun has also written
<br />two prior articles for the PCJ:
<br />“What Planners Do,” in our
<br />Summer 2004 issue and
<br />“Planning from Different
<br />Perspectives,” in our Fall 1996
<br />issue.
<br />For more about these
<br />talented planners, see our
<br />interviews posted on
<br />www.PlannersWeb.com.
<br />They will be joining:
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