The Ethical Planning Practitioner

Bio: Associate professor and director, urban and regional planning program, East Carolina University. President, Jerry Weitz & Associates, Planning & Development Consultants.

Education: Doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.), urban studies, Portland State University; Master of City Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and History, Emory University; Associate of Arts, Oxford College of Emory University.

Key Publications: Sprawl Busting: State Programs to Guide Growth (1999) Jobs-Housing Balance (PAS Report) (2003) Smart Growth Audit (with Leora Waldner) (PAS Report) (2002) Where the Jobs are Going: Job Sprawl in U.S. Metropolitan Regions, 2001-2006 (with Tom Crawford). 2012. Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 78, No. 1.

Other Publications: Author of user guide to the Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook (2002)

Bio: Presently a partner in Orion Planning Group a planning, urban design and planning management firm based in Boulder, Colorado with offices around the country. Formerly Graham was the Director of the Boulder County Land Use Department, Boulder County, Colorado. Responsible for managing a department consisting of Planning; Geographic Information System; Building Safety and Inspection Services; and, Solid Waste, Household Hazardous Waste, and Recycling. Previous employment included Chief, Urban Design for the City of Dallas, Texas. I was responsible for urban design, historic preservation, and land use planning for the city including ongoing area land use, mixed use, land use/transit and housing studies. I was also the principal author of the Dallas Development Code and project director for the program to rezone all property within the 367 square miles of the city (National APA Award). Prior to that I was the principal of Billingsley Consultants, St. Louis, Missouri an urban design, planning and landscape architecture firm. Prior employment - Senior Planner, Team Four, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri and Principal, SFDG Consultants, Cincinnati, Ohio. Presently, President, AICP

Education: Master of Landscape Architecture, North Carolina State University Bachelor of Urban Planning, University of Cincinnati

Key Publications: RLUIPA Reader: Religious Land Uses, Zoning, and the Courts, co-author, an ABA/APA publication Top-to-Bottom Sustainability Analysis, co-authored with Dave Wortman, Planning July 2012

Past Assignments: 1999 APA Conference "Making Transfer of Development Rights Work" 2005 APA Conference "Planning for No Growth" 2006 APA Conference "Defending Alternative Theories of Land-Use Liability" 2006 APA Conference "Challenges in Managing Large-Lot Development" 2008 Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations “National Infrastructure Policy” 2008 EPA Region 6 & 8 Conference Sustainable Water Infrastructure “Framing the Issues” 2009 APA Conference “Becoming a Sole Proprietor Consulting Planner” 2009 APA Conference “Religion, Zoning and the Courts” 2010 APA Conference “Leadership Matters” 2010 APA Conference “Ethical Responsibility to Social Equity” 2010 APA Conference “Approaches to Retaining a Consultant”