Pasco County, FL - Urban Land Institute

As a developer and adviser, Maxwell is known for
visioning niche markets, sensitive place making,
green/sustainable strategies, and exceptional architecture
that create high value added commercial
and residential products. A trained architect
and urban planner, he is a licensed real estate and
mortgage broker, holds the American Institute of
Certified Planners designation, has earned awards
for preservation, industrial, and redevelopment
projects and earned a bachelor of arts, University
of Texas, and a master of planning, University of
Virginia.
Maxwell’s community/industry involvements include:
adjunct professor of business, Nova Southeastern
University MBA Real Estate Program;
full member ULI; ULI Florida/Caribbean District
Council Executive Committee; ULI Inner
City Council; co-vice chair, 2008 ULI Fall Meeting;
ULI Advisory Services panelist; Greater Miami
Urban League; and founder of New Urban
Development LLC, a not-for-profit affordable
housing company.
Mary Roberts
Pinole, California
Roberts is the community development director
for the city of Pinole, California where she is responsible
for all aspects of planning, zoning, and
redevelopment. Pinole is a city of 20,000 located in
the San Francisco Bay Area, on the shores of San
Pablo Bay in West Contra Costa County. She has
25 years of experience in land use, transportation,
housing, and economic development. Her background
spans the public, private, and non-profit
sectors. She has worked for large cities (Denver,
Colorado), small towns (Aspen, Colorado) and re-
gional agencies (San Francisco Bay Area Rapid
Transit District, BART).
Prior to Pinole, Roberts served as the as the director
of community development for the city of
Littleton, Colorado. A medium-sized suburb of
Denver, Littleton is home to 47,000 people. As
the executive director of the Aspen/Pitkin County
Housing Authority, Roberts managed an intergovernmental
agency charged with developing,
managing, and setting policy for affordable housing.
While at BART she led the organization’s
first strategic planning effort. This entailed examination
of management as well as operational systems.
She worked with the elected board and senior
staff to identify core service values, create a
vision for the agency’s future, and establish implementation
priorities.
Roberts also has experience working with advocacy
groups and citizen involvement. While at
the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, a regional
nonprofit group in the San Francisco area, she
worked with local volunteers to achieve a regional
trail system for an eight-county area. Educating
volunteers, decision makers, property owners, and
donors formed the basis of her work. As a consultant
in the private sector she has produced comprehensive,
special area, and neighborhood plans
as well as environmental assessments for development
projects.
Roberts holds a master’s degree in urban planning
from the University of Colorado at Denver, a
master’s degree in public administration from the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard,
and a bachelor’s degree in social sciences
from Illinois State University.
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