Nicole Faghin is a coastal Management Specialist at Washington Sea Grant based at the University of Washington in Seattle and the Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma. Nicole is a trained land use and environmental planner and lawyer specializing in waterfront planning issues. She has 25 years experience as a project manager for a wide variety of complex land use planning and development projects for ports, industrial, commercial and municipal clients, with her primary focus on the shoreline arena. Nicole has taught courses at the UW Seattle in the Urban Planning Program and at UW Tacoma in the Urban Studies Program. She has been a guest lecturer with the UW School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and the Coastal Training Program. She is also teaches courses on Coastal Resiliency and Sea Level Rise and frequently lectures on these issues, receiving training from the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii. She currently manages the Green Shores for Homes project, a grant funded effort led by the City of Seattle and San Juan County and is coordinating a National Working Waterfronts and Waterways Symposium scheduled for March 2013 in Tacoma, Washington.

Peter Katich was an Urban Planner for the City of Tacoma for 31 years, serving as the city’s Land Use Administrator for the last 10 years managing the city’s land use permitting and environmental review functions prior to his retirement in 2008. Currently, Peter is a Senior Planner for the City of Gig Harbor where he has managed the update of the City’s Shoreline Master Program in addition to working on a variety of current and long range planning projects.

Nicole Faghin is a coastal Management Specialist at Washington Sea Grant based at the University of Washington in Seattle and the Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma. Nicole is a trained land use and environmental planner and lawyer specializing in waterfront planning issues. She has 25 years experience as a project manager for a wide variety of complex land use planning and development projects for ports, industrial, commercial and municipal clients, with her primary focus on the shoreline arena. Nicole has taught courses at the UW Seattle in the Urban Planning Program and at UW Tacoma in the Urban Studies Program. She has been a guest lecturer with the UW School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and the Coastal Training Program. She is also teaches courses on Coastal Resiliency and Sea Level Rise and frequently lectures on these issues, receiving training from the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii. She currently manages the Green Shores for Homes project, a grant funded effort led by the City of Seattle and San Juan County and is coordinating a National Working Waterfronts and Waterways Symposium scheduled for March 2013 in Tacoma, Washington.

Peter Katich was an Urban Planner for the City of Tacoma for 31 years, serving as the city’s Land Use Administrator for the last 10 years managing the city’s land use permitting and environmental review functions prior to his retirement in 2008. Currently, Peter is a Senior Planner for the City of Gig Harbor where he has managed the update of the City’s Shoreline Master Program in addition to working on a variety of current and long range planning projects.