Eric Damian Kelly, Ph.D., FAICP is a professor of Urban Planning at Ball State University and vice president of Duncan Associates, planning consultants. He is a frequent litigation consultant and expert witness on cases involving the regulation of signs, billboards and/or sex businesses. He has consulted with more than 100 local governments in more than 35 states. Since 1995, Kelly has been general editor of the 10-volume Matthew Bender set Zoning and Land Use Controls. He is author or co-author of six technical reports published in the Planning Advisory Service Reports series of the American Planning Association; those include Everything you always wanted to know about regulating sex businesses with Connie Cooper. Kelly is a past national president of the American Planning Association, and in 1999, he was inducted as one of the first 49 members of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Kelly holds Master of City Planning and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Union Institute

CONNIE B. COOPER, FAICP, former national president of the American Planning Association, has more than 35 years of experience in planning and community development at the state, county, and local levels. This has included extensive experience throughout the US as a principal participant in the areas of urban redevelopment, strategic planning; comprehensive planning; zoning; and regulation of sexually oriented businesses. Cooper has partnered with Eric Damian Kelly assisting cities and counties in crafting sexually oriented businesses regulation in Arlington (TX), Biloxi, Detroit, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Kenton-Campbell Counties (KY), Memphis, Palm Beach County, and Toledo. Cooper has partnered with Terry Morgan, with Goins, Underkofler, Crawford & Langdon, on sexually oriented business ordinances for Cedar Hill, Denison, Kennedale, and Waxahachie and Ellis County (Texas). Cooper is the co-author with Eric Kelly of the PAS report, Everything you always wanted to know about regulating sex businesses. She is the former national president of the American Planning Association, former president of the American Society of Consulting Planners and was inducted into the 2000 class of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners.