TEAM MEMBER: AVAILABLE

TEAM MEMBER: AVAILABLE

Dear friends,

I have done mostly pro-bono work over the last 5 years.  Now that the end of the pandemic is in sight, I mean, within a year, I want to do more planning work.

Please note I am available for consulting work or for roles on teams working on larger scale projects. I can help in writing and managing work programs and in the development and evaluation of alternatives.  If you want to bolster your team with experience I would love an opportunity to contribute.  Areas of special expertise:

• Development and evaluation of conceptual alternatives for land use and transportation projects;

• Public involvement;

• Historic preservation; 

• Teaching and workshops for staff, clients and public bodies; and,

• Municipal planning, zoning and development.

I have over 55 years of experience which includes:

• 7 years full time and 3 years part time teaching at the university level in planning and design;

• 13 years with an international planning and engineering firm where I was a vice president in charge of the community and environmental planning department, directing projects in 25 states and 4 foreign countries;

• Founder of an interdisciplinary consulting firm working with more than 70 units of local government in Illinois and preparing site plans, ordinances, comprehensive plans and conducting plan review services;

• Consulting Village Planner for several fast-growing cities and acting director of planning for 5 communities; 

• Member, board of directors of 5 not-for-profit corporations, chairman of the board for two; 

• Author of the book “Planning Connections – Human, Natural and Man Made” and a free e-book “Readings in Urban Planning and Design” with 60 papers (52 published) and over 250 illustrations;

• Demonstrated commitment to historic preservation including: Chairman of the first preservation committee in the Pullman community in Chicago, now a National Historic Landmark District; 9 years of service on the National Historic Resource Committee of the American Institute of Architects(AIA); project manager for the first State of Illinois Plan for Historic Preservation; and, Chairman of the AIA Illinois Historic Resource Committee;  and,

• Expert witness on 73 cases of land use, transportation, zoning and planning litigation.

Please contact me so we can discuss possible involvement in a proposal or project. 

Sincerely, Pete Pointner  FAICP, ALA, ITE 630-222-2424 or peteandei@att.net