Consultant Team
Robert Grow, Founding Chairman Emeritus, Envision Utah
John A. Fregonese, Fregonese Associates
David L. Kaylor, ATD Northwest
Kurt J. Shulte, Kimley-Horn
Steven Landau, Economic Development Research Group
Phil Callighan, Knorr Marketing
Lynn Wilson, Mead & Hunt
Doug Christensen, Mead & Hunt
Andrew McFarlane, Leelanau Communications
Jennifer Hutchinson, Leelanau Communications
Robert Grow, Strategic Visioning
Robert Grow holds degrees in engineering and law and has had a diverse career, including practicing law, being president of a large manufacturing company, chairing a national trade association, and being recognized as Utah's entrepreneur of the year.
Grow is founding chair emeritus of Envision Utah, a private/public quality growth partnership founded in 1997.
Envision Utah is widely recognized as one of the country's most successful public involvement efforts for the development of a broad-based, long-term growth strategy for a major metropolitan area. As a model for regional visioning efforts nationwide, Envision Utah has been recognized with the Urban Land Institute's Award for Excellence, the Alliance for Regional Stewardship's Gold Recognition Award, and the American Planning Association's Daniel Burnham Award.
Recently, Don Chen, executive director of Smart Growth America, a national coalition with goals similar to those of Envision Utah, said that Grow "[is] the father of one of the greatest stories in the smart growth movement."
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John A. Fregonese, Scenario Planning
As principal of Fregonese Associates, John Fregonese operates a full-service planning firm that specializes in visioning, comprehensive and small area planning, implementation strategies, and public involvement strategies.
Fregonese has been a planner for 30 years, during which he has earned the rare reputation of being able both to create an energizing vision for communities and to develop concrete, workable solutions to urban problems.
Fregonese is known for his work in Portland, Oregon, where he served as the Planning Director for five years of the regional government, Metro, and was the primary author of the regional growth concept known as Metro 2040. It is recognized nationally and has been the recipient of many national awards.
Since starting the firm in 1997, he has led a variety of planning projects, including some of the most nationally significant regional plans in recent decades. Fregonese was a key consultant in the Envision Utah process, an ongoing regional plan that has garnered national recognition.
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David L. Kaylor, Traffic Video Survey Specialist
David Kaylor has over 13 years of experience as a specialist in the traffic video survey business. He is responsible for sales and marketing of high speed video surveys, data collection, and equipment sales.
He has also been project manager for various O&D matching studies and for red light video validation and other classification studies.
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Kurt J. Schulte, AICP - Senior Planner, Traffic Modeling
Kurt Schulte brings 16 years of experience in the development of corridor studies, access management studies, redevelopment plans, corridor level-of- service analyses, bicycle and pedestrian plans, and travel-demand modeling for projects.
His experience includes a special emphasis on regional transportation planning, scenario planning, and alternative design analysis; environmental feasibility analysis, developing a GIS database system, and implementing public participation programs.
Schulte offers expertise in both land use and transportation planning as they relate to municipal infrastructure projects, and he specializes in creating the critical connection between land use and transportation components of redevelopment initiatives to position communities to attract sustainable development.
Kimley-Horn's view of transportation planning balances traffic performance against other desired qualities of the street, its retail friendliness, its walkability, and its role as a premiere public space of the community.
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Steven Landau, Economic Modeling
Steven Landau is Director of Strategy Planning at Economic Development Research Group. In the past 17 years, he has focused on economic development research, planning and practice.
Prior to joining EDR Group, he was the Director of Economic Research and Analysis for the U.Mass Donahue Institute, and before that he was the economic development program manager at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
Landau has served on numerous boards and advisory committees related to economic development, including an Economic Opportunity Committee, Brownfields Environmental Remediation Initiative, Center for Economic Development, Manufacturing Partnership and Economic Development Council, and has been a featured speaker at professional conferences and workshops.
He holds a Masters in City Planning degree from M.I.T. and a BA in US History from the Univ. of Massachusetts. His experience includes transportation and economic development and economic development opportunities analysis.
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Lynn Wilson, AICP, Community Planner
Lynn Wilson has 17 years of experience in community planning and development. She credits her comprehensive understanding of the field to her extensive professional experience which includes community master planning, land use and transportation planning, capital improvement and natural resource planning; park and recreation planning, open space and agricultural preservation and downtown planning and development.
Wilson is skilled in public participation techniques, grant strategies, research and professional writing, and Geographic Information System mapping.
Wilson brings solid knowledge of local government administration to her projects having worked as Planning and Development Administrator for the City of Williamston and Zoning Administrator for Watertown Township. This experience lends a unique perspective to her work and results in documents that are both understandable and effective.
She believes that effective land use planning is a benefit to community residents, developers, the environment and the economy.
Wilson is skilled at identifying common goals and building consensus among a variety of interests. She finds successful solutions emerge from a 'best practice' approach to community projects.
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Phil Callighan, Marketing Consultant
Phil Callighan joined Knorr Marketing from Chicago in 1993 to focus on strategic planning as well as provide Internet and Public Relations (PR) leadership for all of Knorr's clients.
At various times during his 25 years of agency experience, he has been a writer-producer, creative director, and president of agencies whose client roster has included Fortune 100 corporations as well as entrepreneurial ventures.
A member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), he has also supervised creation of award-winning PR campaigns and has built several brands with the power of PR. From writing feature articles and arranging speaking engagements, to planning news conferences and promoting executives as quotable media resources, Callighan excels at helping clients build and sustain a positive public image.
Locally, he volunteers as chairman of the Marketing Committee of the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Marketing Communications committee at Old Town Playhouse, and is a member of the Communications Committee of his church.
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Doug Christensen, PE, Project Leader
Doug Christensen is a project manager with 14 years of experience in development of transportation projects including bike paths, rural two-lane roadways, complex urban interstates, railroads, bridges, and airports.
His primary engineering responsibilities include traffic and drainage analysis, plan preparation, survey data, cost estimates, and right-of-way analysis. He is adept at coordinating public hearings and public involvement processes, geometric design, utility coordination, and securing environmental permits.
Christensen has served as manager for many projects that have required extensive public involvement and engagement activities including design workshops, public hearings, charettes, and context sensitive solutions.
Such projects include reconstruction of I-75 in downtown Detroit, the Huron-Clinton bike path, the US-131 "S-curve" in Grand Rapids, City of Fremont origin and destination study, reconstruction of the M-57/I-75 interchange in Clio, the M-104 corridor study and access management plan in Spring Lake, railroad upgrades in Chippewa County, and the Northwest Cargo Area at O'Hare International Airport.
In addition, Christensen has experience with the MDOT process for plan development and bid letting. He has been involved with more than 200 federally funded highway, bridge, and enhancement projects.
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Andrew McFarlane, Internet Architect
Andrew has overseen the development of hundreds of web sites and has extensive experience in coordinating the myriad specialties required for leading-edge web development. He excels in understanding the goals of the client and identifying the technologies, architecture and design necessary meet and exceed those goals.
He is a graduate of Michigan State University and has also built and managed several content-driven web sites focusing on northern Michigan and the state of Michigan as a whole. Andrew coordinates and directly oversees the web development team.
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Jennifer Hutchinson, Marketing & Outreach
With twenty years of marketing experience, Jennifer has provided professional public relations and outreach services to a variety of industries. Specializing in strategic planning and communications, her focus is on defining marketing and communications strategies fully from planning and implementation through tracking and reporting. Specialties include; public relations, media relations, event planning and publicity.
She holds an undergraduate degree in Advertising from Michigan State University and a Masters Degree in Technology from Eastern Michigan University. She offers proven strategies for identifying and implementing the most effective message and methods to reach out and engage all audiences within a campaign that includes a successful history of event planning and management.
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