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Panel Members
Panel Chair
Jeffrey Lambert, AICP
Community Development Director, City of Ventura
Mr. Lambert is the Community Development Director for the City of
Ventura. He grew up on the East Coast and received his Bachelor of
Arts from Clark University in 1985. He received his Master of Planning
from USC in 1988 and his membership to the American Institute of
Certified Planners (AICP) in 1990. Mr. Lambert has an extensive
planning background; he started as a Planning Technician in March
1986 in West Hollywood. In 1988 he started working for a consultant
company representing clients on land use matters. Later he joined Kaiser
Permanente where he managed real estate assets, obtained approvals for
new and expanded medical facilities for the Southern California Region,
and represented the organization before local public bodies such as
planning commissions and city councils.
Panel Members
Karl Fielding
Environmental Planner, PBS&J
Mr. Fielding is an Environmental Planner with PBS&J, an environmental
consulting firm. He is responsible for conducting research and assisting
in the preparation of environmental documents and technical studies for
environmental impact reports. This research has ranged from analyzing
project-specific environmental issues to interpreting and applying local,
state, and federal land use policies and laws. Mr. Fielding has conducted
CEQA and NEPA research and analysis on a wide variety of projects,
including the California High-Speed Trail Project EIR/EIS, San Francisco
to San Jose Section; and the Exposition Corridor Transit Project Phase
2 for the Metro Exposition Line Construction Authority in Los Angeles,
California. Mr. Fielding is also an active member of the Association of
Environmental Professionals (AEP) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI),
having served as Programs Chair for ULI LA’s FutureBuild LA in 2009 and
currently serving as Program Director for FutureBuild LA in 2010.
Ehud Mouchly
Principal, READI, LLC
Mr. Mouchly is the owner of Los Angeles-based READI, LLC, a real estate
development and investment management company. He has over 30
years of experience in development, redevelopment, asset management
and financing of sustainable infill projects, workforce housing and
employer-assisted housing, master planned communities and mixed
use development. Over the years he has held senior management
positions with development organizations, home building companies and
consulting firms. He has been an active ULI member for many years and
has served as Council Chairman, Vice Chairman and District Council
Executive Committee member. He is an occasional author, instructor and
speaker on real estate matters in the U.S. and overseas, and serves as an
adjunct professor in the MRED program at USC.
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Walter Okitsu
Managing Director, Crain & Associates
Mr. Okitsu is the Managing Director for Crain & Associates and has
worked in the traffic engineering and transportation planning field for over
28 years. Crain & Associates specializes in transportation consulting
services related to land development and transportation improvement
projects. Mr. Okitsu holds an M.S. in Engineering from the University
of California, Berkeley, specializing in Transportation Engineering
(1981); a B.S. in Civil Engineering from California State University, Los
Angeles (1994); and a B.S. in Mathematics-Computer Science from the
University of California, Los Angeles (1979). Licenses and certifications
include: Professional Civil Engineer (C52655), State of California,
1994; Professional Traffic Engineer (T1406), State of California, 1985;
Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) certification from the
Transportation Professionals Certification Board; and Professional
Transportation Planner (PTP) certification from the Transportation
Professionals Certification Board.
Eric Olsen, AIA LEED AP
Principal, TCA (Thomas P. Cox: Architects, Inc.)
Mr. Olsen is a Partner in TCA’s Los Angeles-based office, specializing in
master planning, urban design, and architecture for high-density housing,
mixed-use, and TOD environments. Mr. Olsen is an award-winning
design architect, with projects recognized by the AIA and the Congress for
New Urbanism, among others. His 15-year experience at TCA includes
architectural team leadership from planning through construction of
a variety of high-density housing typologies and densities. Eric holds
a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and a master of architecture from
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His most recent project
is Westgate Pasadena, a sustainably designed, mixed-use TOD in Old
Pasadena.
Patricia Smith, ASLA, AICP
Principal, Patricia L. Smith
Ms. Smith is a principal at Patricia Smith and has more than 25 years
experience providing urban design, planning and landscape architecture
services to private and public sector clients. Her recent focus has been
on: urban design guidelines for existing urban environments where infill
development at higher intensity must be integrated into the existing
fabric and landscape improvements in the public domain as they relate to
adjacent development; streetscape improvements, including street trees
and other pedestrian amenities, pocket parks and landscaped medians;
parks; and school landscaping, converting asphalt to play fields and
natural landscaping. She has also worked with CRA/LA, and the City of
Los Angeles Departments of Planning, Transportation, and Public Works
to develop new street standards for downtown Los Angeles and a new
specific plan for Warner Center that combines development standards and
street standards to create “complete streets.”