About Me

Wayne Senville is publisher and editor of the Planning Commissioners Journal (since founding the PCJ in 1991) and principal editor of the PlannersWeb (since 1997). He served as a member of the Burlington, Vermont, Planning Commission from July 1990 through June 1999, including three years' service as Chair. Senville was also honored by the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association, and the Vermont Planners Association, as Citizen Planner of the Year in 1999.

Between 1988 and 1991, Senville was Director of Local & Regional Planning Assistance for the Vermont Dept. of Housing & Community Affairs. Before moving to Vermont, Senville served as a senior planner in the National Park Service Mid-Atlantic Regional Office in Philadelphia. During his time with the NPS, he had the fortune of working on numerous park planning and river corridor conservation projects, including the Pinelands National Reserve, the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the Upper Delaware River Management Plan (in NY and PA).

In a prior career as an attorney, Senville worked from 1982-83 for the law firm of Freilich, Leitner & Carlisle, handling a variety of land use matters; and as an appellate attorney for the now-extinct Interstate Commerce Commission, 1978-1981. Senville holds a Masters degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. degree from the University of Minnesota Law School.