The Rebirth of Planning in Cincinnati

Bio: Alex Peppers is a City Planner with the Department of City Planning and Buildings at the City of Cincinnati and is Project Manager for the Cincinnati Form-Based Code. With over 5 years of municipal planning experience, his areas of specialization include comprehensive/long-range and strategic planning, zoning and coding, housing and neighborhood development, and environmental reviews. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Cincinnati and plans to take the AICP exam this year.

Education: University of Cincinnati, Bachelor of Urban Planning

Bio: Katherine Keough-Jurs is a Senior City Planner with the Department of City Planning and Buildings at the City of Cincinnati and is Project Manager for Plan Cincinnati, the City of Cincinnati’s first comprehensive plan in over 30 years. With more than 15 years of municipal planning experience, her areas of specialization include long-range and strategic planning, neighborhood development, land use analysis, demographic analysis, and GIS mapping and analysis. She holds a Masters degree in Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Bio: Jamie is a founding Principal of ACP Visioning+Planning, a community planning practice based in Columbus and New York. His work is focused on developing and facilitating planning processes that enable communities—leaders and general citizens alike— to think creatively about quality of place choices, considering the strong connections among emotional attachment, compact urbanism and economic prosperity. Over the past six years, Jamie’s firm has received top comprehensive planning awards in five different states: Pennsylvania, Hawaii, South Carolina, Ohio and Alabama. In addition to his professional practice, Jamie is an adjunct faculty member of City and Regional Planning at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University.

Bio: C. Gregory Dale, FAICP, is a founding Principal with McBride Dale Clarion in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Dale has extensive experience in planning, land use regulations, and implementation. He has managed planning projects in states throughout the country, including Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Colorado, Georgia, and Oklahoma. He has served in a number of leadership positions with planning and community organizations and is a regular speaker at national, state and local planning conferences and seminars. Mr. Dale’s responsibilities with MDC include managing planning projects and activities for both public and private sector clients throughout the Nation, including comprehensive plans, land use plans, and land use regulations. He speaks at numerous workshops and conferences for professional planners and planning commissions at the national, regional, state and local levels. He authors a feature column for the Planning Commissioner’s Journal, a national publication devoted to citizen planning board members. In the Spring of 2004, Mr. Dale was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners on the basis of individual achievement in the field of urban and rural planning at the American Planning Association’s (APA) National Planning Conference in Washington, D.C. Election to the Fellowship is granted to planners who have been longtime members of AICP and have demonstrated excellence in professional practice, teaching and mentoring, research, community service, leadership, and communication. Altogether, 46 planners from 25 states were inducted into the AICP College of Fellows in 2004. Mr. Dale has maintained membership in the following associations: Ohio Planning Conference Board of Trustees; American Planning Association, Secretary/Treasurer of Planning and Law Division, 1990-1992; American Planning Association, Executive Committee of Chapter President’s Council, past Member; and American Planning Association, Ohio Chapter, Past President. He is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners. Mr. Dale’s education is through University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, with a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning; and Georgetown College (Georgetown, KY) with a B.S., Political Science and Sociology, Cum Laude. Mr. Dale also has taught periodically at University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, as an Adjunct Professor of Planning; the Northern Kentucky University as an Instructor of Land Use Planning and Development; and the University of Cincinnati, College of Law as a Lecturer of Planning Law.