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Professional Charrette Team

Mark B. Apel
Mark holds a Masters Degree in International Affairs and a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Environmental Resource Management from Ohio University and Pennsylvania State University, respectively. His career in planning and environmental resources began as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco where he spent four years working with the Moroccan government’s Department of Waters and Forests. Back in the US, after completing his graduate degree, Mark worked for the National Park Service in their Mid-Atlantic Regional Office’s Division of Planning. There, he managed and facilitated a congressionally authorized Wild and Scenic River study that resulted in the designation of New Jersey’s first Wild and Scenic River. Mark has lived in Arizona for over 18 years and moved to Cochise County in 1990 to take a position as preserve manager for The Nature Conservancy’s Muleshoe Ranch. Mark has also done private consulting in environmental planning which landed him short-term consulting jobs back in Morocco, Madagascar, Honduras and in Arizona. Mark moved to Bisbee in 1997 and worked for the County’s Planning Department. for ten years where he successfully facilitated the adoption of water conservation plans, ordinances and other planning tools. Mark now works for the University of Arizona’s Cooperative Extension as an area extension agent, where he is developing and implementing Extension’s first outreach program in land use planning and sustainable development in southeastern Arizona. Mark lives with his wife and daughter in Bisbee – home of the lavender pit and electric beer.

EDUCATION
Ohio University, Athens, OH - Master of Arts in International Affairs/African Studies June, 1987
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA - Bachelor of Science in Environmental Resources Management May, 1982

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Arizona and American Planning Associations
Western Planners Association
National Association of Community Development Extension Agents
Association of Natural Resource Extension Agents
National Peace Corps Association

RECENT PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS
- 2007. Know Your Zoning in Backyards and Beyond: Rural Living in Arizona. Volume 1, Issue 3. p7.
- 2006. "Water Policy Planning-Cochise County's New Frontier." Phoenix: Arizona Planning Association Newsletter (November).
- Cochise County Planning Department. 2006. Sierra Vista Sub-watershed Water Conservation and Management Policy Plan. Bisbee: Cochise County (Conducted background research and wrote entire document).
- Cochise County Planning Department. 2005. Babocomari Area Plan. Bisbee: Cochise County. (Conducted background research and primary author of document).
- Upper San Pedro Partnership. 2005. 2005 Water Management and Conservation Plan. Bisbee: Cochise County. (As designated "plan writer" compiled contributions, authored chapters 3,4, 5 and 6 and edited all).
- Upper San Pedro Partnership. 2004. 2004 Water Management and Conservation Plan. Bisbee: Cochise County. (As designated "plan writer" compiled contributions, authored chapters 1,2,3,4, and 6 and edited all).
- Upper San Pedro Partnership. 2003. A Working Water Conservation Plan. Bisbee: Cochise County. (As designated "plan writer" compiled contributions, authored chapters 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7, and edited all).
- Cochise County Planning Department. 1998. Water Wise Guidelines for Developers. Bisbee: Cochise County. (Conducted background research and wrote all chapters except appendices).

COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Redington Natural Resources Conservation District Advisor, Cascabel, Arizona, 1991-1997
- Planning and Zoning Commissioner, City of Bisbee, Arizona, 2004-present

 

Maria Masque, Principal
Maria is a principal with The Planning Center and oversees the
community and regional planning division of the firm. In addition,
she coordinates outreach efforts, moderates high profile public
participation programs, and serves as quality control officer for
the long-range planning projects of the firm. She has 20 years of
experience working in the planning field. Maria has coordinated the preparation of more than 30 general plans; drafted regulations for more than 20 zoning codes, and prepared numerous redevelopment and revitalization plans, design guidelines, and planning studies. She has extensive comprehensive, general, and master plan, redevelopment, revitalization and preservation experience.

Maria’s strengths include land planning, urban design, economic development, rural planning, agricultural conversion, tribal and border town planning, and public participation programs. She has worked with many local governments, public agencies, and private entities both in Arizona and Florida and has strong growth management experience. Maria is well versed in Growing Smart and Growing Smarter Plus legislations. She is also bilingual (English and Spanish) and participates in the Arizona/Sonora, the Tucson Commerce Corridor, and the CANAMEX economic development programs. She received an award in 2005 for outstanding contributions to the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park and serves as member of the Tech Park Design Review Committee.

Education
MA, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, 1994
BA, Cultural Anthropology, University of Florida, 1987
College of Architecture, University of Florida, 1984–1986
(completed two years of course work)

Affiliations
American Planning Association (APA)
Arizona Chapter of the American Planning Association (AZAPA)
Pima County Sustainable Development Guidelines Committee Urban Land Institute (ULI)
Southern Arizona Homebuilders Association (SAHBA)
Metropolitan Pima Alliance (MPA)

- Queen Creek General Plan
Queen Creek, Arizona
- City of Bisbee General Plan Update
Bisbee, Arizona
- Douglas General Plan Update
Douglas, Arizona
- Saginaw Revitalization Plan
Bisbee, Arizona
- Northwest Marana Area Plan/General Plan Update
Marana, Arizona
- Davis-Monthan AFB Airfield Compatibility Study
Tucson, Arizona
- University of Arizona Science and Technology Park Master Plan and Development Guidelines
Tucson, Arizona
- West Sierra Vista Master Plan and Design Guidelines
Sierra Vista, Arizona
- Barrio Anita Revitalization Plan
Tucson, Arizona
- City of Palatka Historic Downtown Revitalization Plan
Palatka, Florida
- City of Crystal River Historic Downtown Redevelopment Plan
Crystal, Florida

 

Raquel Goodrich, Project Manager, Planner Division
Raquel is a project manager with The Planning Center. She is responsible for assisting with the preparation of comprehensive and general plans, housing studies, land use and zoning codes, and neighborhood and area plans. Raquel graduated from Unity College with a bachelors degree in Environmental Policy and from University of Maine with a masters degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Planning, Development and Environmental Sustainability. Prior to joining The Planning Center, she worked at the Maine Natural Areas Program, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, and the New Hampshire Sierra Club.

Raquel has more than 5 years of experience in public participation, including organizing and leading public events and workshops in regard to sprawl, smart growth, transportation and other land use planning issues. She has experience in meeting facilitation and served as the meeting facilitator on Maine’s Beginning with Habitat GIS Committee, a habitat-based landscape approach to land use planning.

Education
MPA, Public Administration, University of Maine, 2007
BS, Environmental Policy, Unity College, 2002
Great Meetings Facilitation Training, 2007

Registration/Certification
ESRI Certification in Introduction to GIS and GIS II, 2006

Affiliations
American Planning Association (APA)
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Kennebec Land Trust (KLT), Board Member

- Plum Creek Concept Plan Review
Northern Maine
- Concord 2020 Master Plan
Concord, New Hampshire
- Neighborhood Area Plan
Concord, New Hampshire
- University of Arizona Science and Technology Park
Tucson, Arizona
- City of Douglas Zoning Code Amendment
Douglas, Arizona
- Town of Queen Creek General Plan Update
Queen Creek, Arizona

 

Michael Dollin, RLA, ASLA, Principal and Owner since 1989
Urban designer, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, and educator are all titles used to describe Michael Dollin. An award winning landscape architect, Michael is a collaborator, facilitator and creative urbanist who resides and works in Central Arizona, in the Phoenix metropolitan region of the Sonoran Desert. With over twenty years of experience on a wide range of built and published projects, much of his work is in the public realm. Emphasizing integration of design and environment, his work consistently seeks to elevate the quality of the constructed world. Michael Dollin began his private practice in 1989 after a decade of work with leading multidisciplinary architecture, planning, engineering, and landscape architecture firms, working primarily in Arizona, Texas, and the Middle East. He constantly strives to bring a higher quality of design professionalism and environmental sensitivity to the urban environment, with a particular focus on desert cities. His belief that the urban, constructed environment is a living system, subject to both human and natural principles is the foundation of the work of the firm. Michael has signficant experience working with municipal entities and high profile projects. He is regularly sought out as an expert in Arizona Landscape Architecture. Michael has also been affiliated with Arizona State University as a faculty research associate since 1989 and the Joint Urban Design Program, now called Phoenix Urban Research Lab (PURL) at the ASU Downtown Center since 1991. Project work at the Phoenix Urban Research Lab includes pedestrian and streetscape studies for downtown Phoenix; planning and design charrettes and publications for many communities; and community outreach and research. He is currently an assistant clinical research professor in the College of Design.

Professional Licenses:
Landscape Architect
Arizona #18470
Nevada #730

EDUCATION
University of Arizona
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
May 1980

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Chairperson - Central Section ASLA; 2006-present
Member - City of Phoenix Architectural Appeals Board; 2002-present
Chairperson - Encanto Village Planning Committee; 1995-1997
President - Willo Village Planning Committee; 1994-1995
Member - Downtown Phoenix Partnership Streetscape Task Force; 1991-1992
Member - City of Phoenix Design Review Standards Committee; 1989-1992

ARTIST
Public artist, sculptor, painter and percussionist

WRITER
Landscape Architecture Magazine, Herberger Center
Press, Arizona Republic

EDUCATOR
Arizona State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design Assistant Clinical Professor; 2003-present
Faculty Research Associate; 1988-2002
Associate Director of the Joint Urban Design Program (now called Phoenix Urban Research Lab); 1991-present

SPEAKER
City of the 21st Century, 1999 APA Conference, Reinventing Neighborhoods; 1999-2001

 

Marcy McInelly, AIA - Urban Designer
Before founding Urbsworks in 1995, Marcy designed and managed architectural and urban design projects in New York City and Oregon at Skidmore Owings and Merrill and Fletcher Farr Ayotte. She served as an appointed member of the Portland Planning Commission from 1997 until May of 2002 and she is a founding member of the Portland metropolitan region Coalition for a Livable Future. Marcy enjoys the challenge of projects that have significant public involvement, regulatory and design components. She has significant experience managing and collaborating with teams of consultants, and she focuses her work on development implementation. Marcy is a frequent contributor to conferences and symposia that focus on urban design and transit-oriented development, speaking at local and national planning and transportation conferences for Congress for the New Urbanism, National APA and Oregon APA, the American Institute of Architects, 1000 Friends of Oregon and other groups. In 2004, she was appointed to chair the Transportation Task Force of the Congress for the New Urbanism, There she oversees the joint ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) and CNU street design manual for context sensitive design.

Relevant Experience
Metro Strategies for Innovative Design and Development Code, Portland, OR
East Hayden Island Plan, Bureau of Planning, Portland, OR
Damascus Comprehensive Plan, Damascus, OR

Projects while at Urbsworks
New Columbia Master Plan, Portland, OR
Comprehensive Plan Amendment and Zone Change for New Columbia Main Street/Housing Authority of Portland (a Transportation Growth Management Quick Response project), Portland, OR
Metro Habitats: Nature in Neighborhoods, Portland, OR
Bureau of Planning Infill Design for Multidwelling Sites, Portland, OR
I-205 MAX Station Area Evaluations and Work Program Recommendations, Portland, OR
Folsom Boulevard Specific Plan and Form-Based Code, Rancho Cordova, CA
Walnut Station Mixed Use Center Development Plan and Form-Based Code, Eugene, OR
Downtown Kenton Neighborhood Redevelopment Guide, Portland, OR
Fuller Road LRT Station Area Plan, Clackamas County, OR
Zoning Ordinance Update to Urban-form and Prototype-based Code, Palo Alto, CA
14 Essential Guidelines for Downtown Ridgefield, Ridgefield, WA
NorthWest Crossing Mixed-Use Neighborhood, Bend, OR
North Mountain Neighborhood Rezoning and Form-based Code , Ashland, OR
Martin Luther King Boulevard McDonald’s Mixed-Use Study and Zoning Amendments Report, Portland, OR

Education
B. Architecture, University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts

Registration
New York

Experience
SERA since 2007, founder of Urbsworks since 1995

Public Involvement
AIA Portland Chapter Downtown Urban Design Panel, Co-Chair, November 2006 to present
Technical Advisory Committee, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Recommended Practice, Context Sensitive Design for Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities, June 2004 to present
Metro Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) Alternate, May 2006 to present
Living Smart: A Catalogue of Small Lot House Plans, City of Portland Bureau of Development Services—Juror, Appointed Member, Project Advisory Team, October 2003 to present
Congress for the New Urbanism National Transportation Task Force Co-Chair, June 2003 to present

Presentations/Lectures/Conferences
Guest interview on “Sustainable Today”, Cable Access television program on Smart Growth and sustainable development. Aired April 7, 2007. www.sustainabletoday.org
Juror, Walla Walla Market Station architectural/urban design competition, 2007
“Design Principals 101”, Presenter, Form Based Code and Economic Development Training for Planners Workshop 2007, Oregon American Planning Association
Speaker, Congress for the New Urbanism Transportation Summit, London, UK, 2007

 

Michelle Marx - Urban Designer/Planner
Michelle recently completed her Master of Science in Community and Regional Planning at The University of Texas at Austin, where she focused on urban design and growth management. Her work has focused on creating pedestrian friendly, mixed-use, transit-oriented environments from the neighborhood to the regional level. Her recent professional experience includes work on neighborhood and downtown plans, streetscape plans, and design guidelines and form based codes. Previous to her planning career, she studied law and worked as a legislative analyst for the Texas House of Representatives.

Recent projects
Downtown Redmond Preliminary Development Plan, Redmond, OR
OR 43 Conceptual Streetscape Design Plan, West Linn, OR
City of Canby Downtown Design Standards, Canby, OR
City of Hayden Downtown Development and Design Standards, Hayden, ID
Folsom Boulevard Specific Area Plan Form-Based Code, Rancho Cordova, CA
PDOT LRT Station Area Planning Best Practices Assessment, Portland, OR
City of Redmond Highway Area Plan & Northwest Area Plan, Redmond, OR
Park Place Concept Plan, Oregon City, OR
Damascus Comprehensive Plan, Damascus, OR

Experience prior to SERA
City of Silverton Downtown Plan, Silverton OR
City of Logan City-wide Form-Based Code, Logan, UT

Education
M. S. Community and Regional Planning, University of Texas at Austin
B.A. English and French, University of Texas at Austin

Experience
SERA since 2006

 

Paul R. David - Professional Engineer – AZ # 43807
Qualifications
Professional Engineer – AZ # 43807
Safford District Development Engineer – manager of ADOT Safford District’s 5 year $100 million construction plan - Since 2005
Partnering Facilitator – 20 + construction workshop facilitations
Author of a successful National Scenic Byway application
ADOT Construction Inspector & Project Supervisor 2000 - 2005
Funeral Home, Vault & Monument Company Owner 1989 - 1998
Donor Program Manager – U of A College of A Medicine 1985 – 1989
Paramedic – David’s & Kord’s Ambulance 1980 - 1985

Education
Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering University of Arizona 1989
Southern Arizona Paramedic Training Program 1979
Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science 1977 AZ FD #509 & Emb. #682
Safford High School 1974

Interests
Affordable housing using alternative construction
Earth sheltered and hillside homes
Helping my grown children and 5 granddaughters reach their full potential
Native American economic development & social issues