Bio: City Manager, City of Beaufort, SC. Served in City Management positions in Virginia and North Carolina. Adjunct Professor, SCAD, School of Building Arts
Education: BSc Appalachian State Universtity MBA Mercer University
Other Publications: Beaufort Micropolitan Manifesto, Urban Escapee Getting Our Heads out of the Sand, Creative Destruction of the Local Government Model
Past Assignments: Lecturer in OLLI Osher Learning Program, USCB-Beaufort Presented at SC and NC APA Conferences
Bio: Current: Managing Principal of The Lawrence Group Town Planners and Architects-Davidson,NC Office 2000-Present Town of Davidson Design Review Board Chairman, 2001-present Previously the Assistant Town Manager of the Town of Cornelius, NC
Education: 1996 Master of Public Administration - UNC Charlotte 1992 Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Past Assignments: Public Space in Downtowns, 2005 NC APA Conference, Fayetteville, NC Techniques of New Urbanism, 2005 NC APA Conference, Fayetteville, NC Strategies for Big Boxes, 2005 Tennessee Conference of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Transportation Engineering, Knoxville, TN Creating New Suburban Neighborhood of Lasting Value, 2005 Smart Growth is Smart Business Speaker Series, Buffalo, NY Designing Public Policy for Healthy Living, 2004 Healthy Communities Conference, Raleigh, NC Anatomy of Form-Based Codes, 2004 Missouri Statewide Planning Conference, St. Louis, MO Linking Planning Education and Planning Practice, 2004 NCAPA Conference, Asheville, NC Anatomy of New Urbanist Codes, 2004 CNU XII Conference, Chicago, IL Urban Design Codes, 2004 NCAPA Summer Institute, Raleigh NC Stakeholder Participation via the Charrette: Turning NIMBYs into CAMBYs, 2003 North Carolina Smart Growth Alliance Statewide Summit, Salisbury, NC Affordable Housing in the Upstate, 2003 Upstate Forever/Upstate Homebuilders Association Conference, Greenville, SC