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Bio: Current work: Sessional lecturer in the Landscape Architecture department, and PhD student at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Current research focuses on visualization of landscape change for energy infrastructure. Previous work experience includes 20+ years of freelance illustration in the architecture, planning and development industry with a specialization in watercolor renderings.

Education: Masters of Planning, University of Guelph, 2009 Bachelor of Architecture, University of Waterloo, 1991 Bachelor of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, 1988

Other Publications: Illustrated bi-weekly newspaper column 'Sustainable City', Owen Sound Sun Times

Past Assignments: Illustration workshops: Digital and watercolour drawing and painting techniques for landscape architecture, urban design and planning. Drafting basics, 6 week introductory course. Colour and light in the landscape, en plein air techniques Design workshops: Retrofitting your home for Secondary Suites. Conference presentation: Envisioning Sustainability in your community: conveying sustainability principles in a newspaper column, Rural Development conference, Brandon Manitoba 2010.

Bio: Andy Boenau has a passion for promoting livability and economic vitality through the transportation and design process. His area of expertise can be described as “human-scale design”. Places that are created to accommodate people, regardless of their mode of travel. He enjoys translating complex transportation jargon into everyday language that is easily understood by community stakeholders and elected officials. Andy lives in Richmond, VA and works for Timmons Group, a Virginia-based planning and engineering company.

Education: BS in civil engineering from Virginia Tech

Key Publications: Andy is the host of Urbanism Speakeasy, a podcast about planning and designing places for people. Find out more at UrbanismSpeakeasy.com.

Other Publications: Andy has been published by many organizations and media outlets. These include the APA Kids Planning Toolbox blog, the Institute of Transportation Engineers magazine, the Urban Times, This Big City, and Sustainable Cities Collective.

Past Assignments: In the last year, Andy spoke for conferences and webinars including Congress for New Urbanism, APA, and Institute of Transportation Engineers.

Bio: Senior Planner for the Department of Planning and Development of McHenry County, Illinois

Education: Bachelors of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

Bio: Jason is a principal planner and urban designer for Arlington County, Virginia. His career has focused on restoring suburban communities into vital pedestrian places through community engagement and high-quality urban design solutions. He held previous planning and urban design positions in Overland Park, KS, Leesburg, VA and West Des Moines, IA. Jason is the current Past Chair of the APA Urban Design & Preservation Division and serves on the APA Emerging Trends and Community Planning Assistance Team task forces.

Education: Bachelor of science in community and regional planning and master's of community and regional planning from the College of Design at Iowa State University

Past Assignments: NATIONAL APA EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS 2013 / Chicago – (accepted) Building the Ideal Planning Department, Fast Funny Passionate I, & Speed Dating for Planners - 2011 / Boston – Planners Guide to Reinventing the Suburbs, The Evolution of Urban Form, Emerging Topics in Retrofitting Suburbia, Reinventing Suburban Corridors, On the Road - 2010 / New Orleans – The Great American Suburb & Urban Design Reclaimed - 2009 / Minneapolis – Urban Design in the 21st Century - 2008 / Las Vegas – Is a Form-based Code Right for Your Community? & Urban Designers as Social Planners - 2007 / Philadelphia – Livable Communities - 2006 / San Antonio – Community Design REGIONAL APA EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS 2006 / Cincinnati (OH, KY & IN) – Architectural Standards STATE APA EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS Virginia 2012 - Is a Form-Based Code Right for Your Community?, Retrofitting Suburban Corridors / Kansas 2010 – What Your Planning Professors Forgot to Teach You / Kansas & Iowa 2009 – Guiding Redevelopment with Form-based Codes / MO/KS 2008 – Form-based Code Mini-Course / Virginia 2008 – Form-based Code Mini-Course Virginia 2006 & 2007 – Form-based Codes & Architectural Standards Michigan 2006 – Design Guidelines & Sustainability National Building Museum 2006 – Sustainable Communities HUD Sustainable Housing Conference 2010 – Transformative Suburban Development

Bio: Scott Shuford is a certified planner with over 30 years of professional experience in all phases of short- and long-range planning, code enforcement, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and facilitation of strategic development and redevelopment. He current serves as the Development Services Director for Fayetteville, NC, the state’s sixth most populous city and home to U.S. Army facilities Fort Bragg and Pope Field. His experience includes service in senior planning positions in Onslow County, Asheville, Wilmington and Carolina Beach in North Carolina, and St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Brevard County in Florida, as well as a two-year stint as a private sector planning consultant.

Education: Mr. Shuford is a graduate from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with both Bachelor of Arts (1978) and Master of Regional Planning (1981) degrees.

Key Publications: PAS Report 558: Planning for a New Energy and Climate Future; 2010; co-author with Suzanne Rynne and Jan Mueller

Other Publications: APA's Climate Change Policy Guide; co-author

Past Assignments: Mr. Shuford is a frequent speaker on a variety of topics involving local government, including presentations at the 2008 through 2012 American Planning Association National Conferences, the 2010 Interagency Leadership Team Climate Change Adaptation Workshop, the 2010 EPA Region 4 Climate Change Adaptation Workshop, the 2009 NC Association of County Commissioners Annual Conference, and the 2008 Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Annual Conference.