Streeterville emerged from Lake Michigan in the mid-1880s through a combination of silt accumulation, landfill dumping, and squatting. Trace this neighborhood’s development and learn about the planning efforts that have shaped it through the years, including the Lakefront Plan of Chicago (1972), the Chicago Central Area Plan (2003), and the Chicago Central Area Action Plan (2009). Explore how Streeterville has successfully balanced residential and commercial development pressures with historic preservation. Transportation: Public, walking. Includes lunch.
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Chris M. Newcome
Urban/Environmental Planner
URS Corp.
Roopa Dandamudi, AICP
Urban Planner
URS Corporation
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Bio: Roopa Dandamudi, AICP is a transit and land use planner with a range of experience studying various transportation planning topics such as multi-modal planning, light rail, high speed rail, and BRT systems.She has worked with URS Corporation as a planner for 4 years. Her past experience includes working for a local municpality working in both long-range planning and current planning.
Education: Master of Planning, University of Southern California
Veronica Siranosian, AICP
Senior Urban and Environmental Planner
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Bio: Veronica Siranosian, AICP, LEED GA is a senior planner with URS Corporation. She is responsible for environmental analysis and development of long-range land use and transportation plans and ordinances that support livable communities. Ms. Siranosian previously worked as a planner for Los Angeles County, where she developed an APA award-winning community participation model and successfully completed vision plans, community plans, technical reports, and zoning ordinances.
Education: Master of Urban Planning, New York University Wagner School of Public Service Bachelor of Arts in International Development and Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Past Assignments: 2011 National APA Conference Mobile Workshop Speaker: From Oil Fields to Open Space- Tracing development of the Baldwin Hills.
Jennifer L. McNeil Dhadwal, AICP
Principal Urban Planner and Planning Department Lead
URS Corporation
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Bio: Principal Planner at URS Corporation and head of Chicago office's planning deparment. Specializes in land use and transportation plans, including TOD studies; multi-modal, multi-jurisdictional corridor plans; and transit feasiblity studies, alternative analyses and FTA funding processes.
Education: MUPP, Economic Development - University of Illinois at Chicago; BA, Economics - Vanderbilt University
Past Assignments: “Harlem Avenue Corridor Plan: Corridor Planning Across Municipal Boundaries.” Tuesdays at APA, Chicago IL, April 2012. http://www.planning.org/tuesdaysatapa/2012/chicago/apr.htm “Intergovernmental Planning: Conducting a Multi-Jurisdictional Planning Effort.” Illinois APA annual conference, Evanston IL, October 2011. “Linking Plans and Regulations: Transit Planning, Federal Funding, and Community Planning.” University of Illinois at Chicago, Guest Lecture to UPP555 course, December 2009. “Tools and Methods: Commercial Real Estate Market Analysis.” American Planning Association - Chicago Metro Section, January 2008. “Working with Municipal Staff, Board Members and Elected Officials to Support Comprehensive Plans.” Chaddick Institute of DePaul University, May 2007. “Innovative Portfolio Management at Chevron.” URS Environmental Technology and Management Seminar, Oakland, April 2007. “Economic Impact of Millennium Park.” Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit, Philadelphia, June 2006. “Economic Impact of Millennium Park.” Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce visit, Chicago, April 2006.
Jeromie Winsor, AICP
URS Corporation
Bradley H. Winick, AICP
Principal Urban Planner
URS Corporation
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Bio: Principal Urban Planner at URS, located in downtown Chicago. Also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. On the Board of AgeOptions (the suburban Cook County Area Agency on Aging).
Education: Master of Urban Planning & Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1985 Master of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1984 Bachelor of Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1980
Past Assignments: "Creating a Livable Lakefront by Putting (Disparate) Pieces Together" -- Upper Midwest Regional APA Planning Conference, September 29, 2005; "Building the Marquette Plan: From Strategy to Implementation" -- Indiana APA Planning Conference, November 18, 2005; "Planning at the Water's Edge" -- APA National Planning Conference, April 25, 2006; "The Chicago Lakefront Harbor Framework Plan meets The Chicago 2016 Summer Olympics" -- APA National Planning Conference, April 15, 2007; “Brownfield Redevelopment Planning: From the Macro Scale to the Site-Specific”, National Brownfield Association Conference, Market Driven Development: How Planning Fits In?, October 17, 2007; "No Little Plans for Chicago's Lakefront" -- Urban Waterfronts 25 Conference, November 3, 2007; “Reinventing Indiana’s Entire Lake Michigan Shoreline – The Marquette Plan”, APA National Conference, April 30, 2008
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