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Jean Scott
Strategies for Livable Communities
Managing Partner
Jean Scott, the owner of Strategies for Livable Communities and Managing
Partner of SLC/LLC, specializes in communications, outreach, and consensus
building in public planning processes. She has 40 years of experience in managing
complex planning and public outreach processes, building collaborative
partnerships among diverse interests, and synthesizing complex planning issues
into language that is easy to digest and understand and provides a foundation
for action. Scott brings to a project the unique perspective of someone who has worked at the local, state, and
federal levels of government in the areas of planning, housing, and community and economic development,
and directed a civic- and business-led organization that convened, and worked to implement, a seven-county
regional visioning initiative in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Her work on outreach and communication
has been featured in presentations to groups such as the American Planning Association, the Florida Chamber
of Commerce Short Course on Growth Management and Environmental Permitting, and the Florida Chapter
of the American Planning Association (Florida APA). Her articles on best practices in Florida visioning, the
use of peer review panels in planning and visioning processes, and features of successful charrettes were published
in Florida Planning, the newsletter of Florida APA.
Stuart Sirota
TND Planning Group
Founding Principal
Stuart Sirota is the founding principal of TND Planning Group, a consulting
firm dedicated to the integration of sustainable transportation, land use, and civic
engagement. Stuart leads and participates in projects in the Mid-Atlantic and
throughout the U.S., helping communities become more pedestrian-, bicycle-,
and transit-friendly. He assists governments and community-based organizations
seeking to enhance livability through transformative change. Some of the areas in which he specializes include
designing “complete streets”, walkable community and corridor master plans, transit oriented development
planning, and safe routes to school programs. Before starting his firm, Stuart was a professional associate with
Parsons Brinckerhoff, where he led the land use-transportation integration group in Baltimore. Prior to that, he
was a senior planner with the Maryland Transit Administration, where he advanced initiatives to connect public
transit as a tool for community revitalization. Stuart is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners,
and was a 2003 Knight Fellow in Community Building at the University Of Miami School Of Architecture.
He was recently featured in the new book, “Becoming an Urban Planner” (American Planning Association
and Wiley Press, 2010), which profiles the innovative work of leading American planners.
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