Legislative Network

APA's Legislative Network is made up of legislative liaisons from each APA Chapter. If you are interested in federal or state legislation in your particular state you can contact your legislative liaison or other state's legislative liaisons through this network.

APA policy staff is already using the network to keep APA's chapters up to date on federal legislation important to planners. In addition, if action from APA members is needed to promote or to stop a particular bill, an alert is sent through the network asking members to contact their federal or state legislators.

Updated May 20, 2008

APA Legislative Liaison Directory

Alaska
Mitzi C. Barker, FAICP
Rural Alaska Cmty Action Program
P.O. Box 200908
Anchorage, AK 99520-0908
(P) 907-865-7370
(F) 907-222-1834
mbarker@ruralcap.com

Arizona
Rob Lane
Gammage & Burnham Law
2 North Central, 18 Floor
Phoenix, AZ 85004
rlane@gblaw.com

Arkansas
James G. Von Tunglen, AICP
Urban Planning Assoc Inc
P.O. Box 3482
Little Rock, AR 72203-3482
(P) 501-372-3232
(F) 501-375-1277
uplan@swbell.net

California
John E. Bridges, FAICP
EDAW
10985 Elderwood Rd
San Diego, CA 92131-1549
(P) 619-233-1454
(F) 619-233-0952
john.bridges@edaw.aecom.com

Sande George
Stefan/George Associates
925 L St, Ste 340
Sacramento, CA 95814-3703
(P) 916-443-5301
(F) 916-443-3494
sglobby@pacbell.net

Pete W. Parkinson, AICP
County of Sonoma
2555 Bennett Ridge Rd
Santa Rosa, CA 95404-9524
(P) 707-565-1925
(F) 707-565-1103
pparkins@sonoma-county.org

Colorado
Gilbert F. McNeish
Grimshaw & Harring
1700 Lincoln St., Ste 3800
Denver, CO 80203-4538
(P) 303-839-3800
(F) 303-839-3838
gmcneish@grimshawharring.com

Delaware
James M. Poling
State of Delaware
391 Lukens Dr DNREC-SIRB
New Castle, DE 19720-2769
(P) 302-395-2636
(F) 302-395-2601
Jim.Poling@state.de.us

Florida
Kimberly Glas-Castro, AICP
Ruden McClosky Smith Schuster
230 E Ilex Dr
Lake Park, FL 33403-2711
(P) 561-838-4542
(F) 561-514-3442
kim.glascastro@ruden.com

Georgia
James E. Shelby
City of Atlanta Dept Of Plng & Comm Devel
55 Trinity Ave Sw., Ste 1450
Atlanta, GA 30303-3534
(P) 404-330-6070
(F) 404-658-7638
jshelby@atlantaga.gov

Illinois
Sharon Caddigan, AICP
Village of Streamwood
301 E Irving Park Rd
Streamwood, IL 60107-3000
(P) 630-837-0200
(F) 630-837-5690
scaddigan@hotmail.com

Indiana
Philip D. Roth, AICP
Indianapolis MPO
8128 Tanager Ct
Indianapolis, IN 46256-1775
(P) 317-327-5149
(F) 317-327-5103
PROTH@Indygov.org

Iowa
Leslie T. Beck
Linn County Plng & Dev OFC
930 1st St, SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404-2164
(P) 319-892-5151
(F) 319-892-5155
les.beck@linncounty.org

Kansas
Dean Andrew
City of Salina Plng and Community Devel Dept
P.O. Box 736
Salina, KS 67402-0736
(P) 785-309-5720
(F) 785-309-5713
dean.andrew@salina.org

Kentucky
Robert Hewitt
Franklin County
104 Purebred Ct
Frankfort, KY 40601-5382
(P) 740-455-0617
(F) 740-452-2596
rhewitt@dcr.net

Louisiana
Stephen D. Villavaso, FAICP
Villavaso & Associates, LLC
6304 Beauregard Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70124
(P) 504-343-9096
svillavaso1@cox.net

Massachusetts
David A. Fields, AICP
Town of Burlington
36 Rangeway Rd
North Billerica, MA 01862-2121
(P) 781-270-1645
(F) 781-270-1608
afields@burlmass.org

Minnesota
Jean L. Coleman
CR Planning
2634 Vincent Ave., N
Minneapolis, MN 55411-1709
(P) 612-588-4904
(F) 612-588-2637
jcoleman@crplanning.com

Missouri
Scott B. Poor
White Goss Bowers March Schulte & Weisenfels
4510 Belleview, Ste. 300
Kansas City, MO 64111
(P) 816-502-4739
(F) 816-753-9201
spoor@whitegoss.com

National Capital
Lee A. Schoenecker, AICP
NCAC VP/Legislative Affairs
5543 30th Pl., NW
Washington, DC 20015-1209
(P) 202-686-8864
(F) 202-686-8864
lleeschoenecker@aol.com

New Jersey
Vito A. Gallo
17 Sheridan Rd
Summit, NJ 07901-1615
(P) 908-273-8927
vitoagallo@comcast.net

New Mexico
Joel C. Wooldridge, FAICP
1500 Indiana St., NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110-6914
joelanduffy@hotmail.com

New York Metro
Michael A. Levine AICP
Town of North Hempstead
220 Plandome Road
Manhasset, NY 11030
(P) 516-869-7753
(F) 516-869-7798
levinem@northhempstead.com

New York Upstate
Mark Castiglione
Hudson River Valley Greenway
Capitol Building, Room 254
Albany, NY 12224
(P) 518-473-3835
mark.castiglione@hudsongreenway.state.ny.us

Northern New England
Fred S. Dunnington
Town of Middlebury
94 Main St
Middlebury, VT 05753
(P) 802-388-8106
(F) 802-388-4364
fdunnington@town.middlebury.vt.us

Northern New England
Benjamin D. Frost, AICP
New Hampshire Housing
P.O. Box 5087
Manchester, NH 03108-5087
(P) 603-310-9361
(F) 603-488-0893
bfrost@nhhfa.org

Northern New England
Amanda L. Stearns, AICP
Town of Falmouth
271 Falmouth Road
Falmouth, ME 04105
(P) 207-781-5253
astearns@town.falmouth.me.us

Ohio
Christopher Gawronski
Mid Ohio Regional Plng Comm
111 Liberty Streeet #100
Columbus, OH 43215-5613
(P) 614-233-4166
(F) 614-621-2401
cgawronski@morpc.org

Oregon
Edward J. Sullivan
Garvey Schubert Barer
4004 NW Thurman St
Portland, OR 97210-1241
(P) 503-553-3106
(F) 503-248-9085
esullivan@gsblaw.com

Pennsylvania
Richard G. Bickel, AICP
Delaware Valley RPC
190 N Independence Mall W, Fl 8
Philadelphia, PA 19106-1508
(P) 215-238-2830
(F) 215-592-9125
rbickel@dvrpc.org

Tennessee
Warren W. Terry, AICP
Bill Terry & Assoc
4641 Villa Green Dr
Nashville, TN 37215-4331
(P) 615-665-1010
billterr@comcast.net

Utah
Wilford H. Sommerkorn
Davis Cnty Cmty & Econ Devel.
P.O. Box 618
Farmington, UT 84025-0618
(P) 801-451-3278
(F) 801-451-3281
wilf@co.davis.ut.us

Virginia
Jeryl R. Phillips, AICP
City of Norfolk
9068 River Crescent
Suffolk, VA 23433-1304
(P) 757-664-6771
jeryl.phillips@norfolk.gov

Washington
Esther Larsen
Spokane County
P.O. Box 18971
Spokane, WA 99228-0971
(P) 509-477-5709
(F) 509-477-2576
elarsen@spokanecounty.org

Josh D. Peters, AICP
Jefferson County
623 Sheridan St
Port Townsend, WA 98368-2439
(P) 360-385-9167
(F) 360-385-9234
jpeters@co.jefferson.wa.us

Wisconsin
Lisa Mackinnon
1000 Friends of Wisconsin
16 N Carroll St., Ste 810
Madison, WI 53703-2726
(P) 608-259-1000
(F) 608-259-1621
lmac@1kfriends.org

Bruce B. Wilson, AICP
1405 Club Circle
Middleton, WI 53562
wilsonplan@gmail.com

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