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PCJ Staff & Editorial Board

Planning Commissioners Journal Staff:
Publisher & Editor:
Wayne Senville
Burlington, Vermont
General Manager:
Betsey Krumholz
Burlington, Vermont
Office Support:
Peggy Ellis-Green
Burlington, Vermont
P.O. Box 4295, Burlington, VT 05406
e-mail: info@plannersweb.com

Senvillemans4 Before founding the Planning Commissioners Journal in 1991, Senville served as Director of Local & Regional Planning Assistance for the Vermont Dept. of Housing & Community Affairs. He holds a Masters degree in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. degree from the University of Minnesota Law School.

Senville currently serves on the Burlington, Vermont, Planning Commission. He also was a commissioner from 1990 through 1999, including three years' service as Chair. He was 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.

Over the years, Senville has been involved in many local and neighborhood issues in Burlington, and organized the first citywide "Pedestrian Summit." In 2007, he was the recipient of the "Herb Bloomenthal Award," Burlington's highest annual honor for community activism.

During the Summer of 2007, Senville also spent six weeks traveling across the U.S. on Route 50 meeting with dozens of planners, planning commissioners, elected officials, and citizens. His more than 100 trip reports are available online.


Elizabeth M. Krumholz -- Manager

photo of Betsey Krumholz Betsey Krumholz is the Manager of the Planning Commissioners Journal. In addition to handling administrative matters, Krumholz is responsible for the series of reprint sets published by the PCJ. She also occasionally posts reports on the PlannersWeb site & blog (for one example of special interest to baseball lovers).

Krumholz was a member of the Burlington, Vermont, Planning Commission from 1993 to 1999, and served as the Commission's Chair. More recently, she has been a member of the Burlington School Board. Krumholz received her B.A. degree from Georgetown University.

In response to the frequent question of whether she is related to respected longtime planner Norman Krumholz, her answer is, "while I've met Professor Krumholz, my husband is from another branch of the Krumholz tree ... but who knows if you go back far enough!"


Planning Commissioners Journal
Editorial Advisory Board:
Larry Frey
Bradenton, Florida
Lee A. Krohn
Manchester, Vermont
*Wayne Lemmon
Somers, New York
-- we regret to note that Wayne died this January; he will be missed by us
Ross Moldoff
Salem, New Hampshire
Christine Brauer Mueller
Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Irv Schiffman
Chico, California
Dave Stauffer
Red Lodge, Montana
Barbara Sweet
Hyde Park, New York
Ilene Watson
Kelowna, British Columbia
Larry Pflueger (PCJ Asst. Editor)
Clearwater, Florida

Larry P. Frey

Larry Frey Larry P. Frey, AICP, is currently enjoying a sabbatical, which has included historic preservation research and travel to New Orleans, Key West, Georgia, Indiana, and the island of Antigua. Frey's past work has included serving as Director of Development for the City of Bradenton, Florida. He has over twelve years' public/private experience in planning and development, concentrating mostly on planning practices within coastal areas. Frey's areas of expertise include coastal zone management, downtown revitalization, visioning, and site plan review. He holds a Master's of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida where he focused on Urban Design.

Among the numerous studies, visioning documents, and reports Frey has prepared are, "7th Avenue, A Visual Perspective", "A Walk Around Historic Ybor Square", and "Citrus County Coastal Impacts from the March 1993 Winter Storm." As Frey puts it, "Planning is always exciting for me since it takes me anywhere from walking down a vibrant downtown street, to trudging through a pristine wetland, to spending a couple of days aboard an aircraft carrier at sea."


Lee A. Krohn

Lee A. Krohn, AICP is the Planning Director for the Town of Manchester, Vermont. Krohn earned a bachelor's degree from Franklin & Marshall College and a master's degree at Duke University, and graduated with the inaugural class of the Vermont Leadership Institute. He is a frequent instructor at local and statewide workshops, and has spoken nationwide on land use planning issues.

Krohn is former Chair of the Putney Planning Commission, past President of the Vermont Planners Association, and currently serves on the boards of the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, the Manchester Community Land Trust (now one year old), and the Equinox Preservation Trust. An award-winning photographer, Krohn has published images and essays in many different publications, and has become a successful wedding photographer.


The late Wayne Lemmon

Wayne Lemmon photo Wayne was a real estate economist, with a background in architecture and urban planning. He worked for The Baker Companies, one of the largest home and office builders in the New York City metropolitan area.

Wayne was the author of The New "Active Adult" Housing, in Issue 51 of the PCJ The Anti-Sprawl Mantra, in Issue 37 of the PCJ, and the The Market Analysis Workbook published by AMACOM in 1983, and gave many presentations on development economics at conferences of the APA and IDEA. Lemmon held degrees in Architecture from Cornell University, and Urban Planning from City College of New York.


Ross Moldoff

photo of Ross MoldoffRoss Moldoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in the Midwest (Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Columbus, Detroit). According to Moldoff, "Moving back to New Hampshire for my junior year of high school generated a strong interest in city planning. ... I was struck by the tremendous differences between Midwestern and New England landscapes and wanted to learn more about them." He majored in Environmental Studies and Economics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, then received a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. After brief stints at regional planning commissions in Dover and Exeter, New Hampshire, Moldoff came to Salem, New Hampshire as the Planning Director, where he has been for the past 17 years.

His professional interests focus on using better design to improve the quality of development and controlling strip development in particular. Moldoff has published several articles on this topic, including Controlling Strip Development in the Winter 2004 issue of the Planning Commissioners Journal.


Christine Brauer Mueller

photo of Chris MuellerChristine Brauer Mueller has attended Planning Commission, BZA, and County Commissioner meetings in Dearborn County, Indiana since 1995. Dearborn County is located in southeast Indiana and has become a bedroom community of Cincinnati, Ohio and the rapidly developing northern Kentucky region around the Greater Cincinnati Airport. During these years a small and diverse group of citizens from all over the county have formed a loose network that provides expertise to local citizens faced with planning issues in their neighborhoods. They strongly supported changes in the Planning and Zoning boards and the hiring of a planning director for the county.

Mueller holds a BS in Biology from Mount St. Joseph College and a MEd in Chemistry from Xavier University, both in Cincinnati. She taught junior high and senior high school for 5 years and introductory college science for 3 years. Mueller served on St. Lawrence School Board for 3 years, after her children graduated. While raising her 3 children she served as Business Manager for 13 years for what eventually became a 5-doctor internal medicine practice. Reading dry Medicare regulations prepared her well for the Indiana Code Laws for planning and zoning and local government.


Larry Pflueger

photo of Larry Pflueger Over the past several years, Pflueger has regularly assisted with the review of articles submitted for publication in the Planning Commissioners Journal.

Pflueger is a Principal Planner with the Pinellas (Florida) Planning Council. The Council provides a forum for representatives of Pinellas County's 24 cities and towns, the unincorporated county, and the Pinellas County School Board to address countywide land use issues. The thirteen members (some representing groups of communities) provide policy advice and recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners, who are authorized by the county charter to act as the Countywide Planning Authority (CPA).


Irving Schiffman

Irv Schiffman is a Professor of Political Science and the former Director of the Master's Program in Rural and Town Planning at California State University, Chico. He holds a doctorate from the University of California at Davis and a law degree from the New York University School of Law. He is the author of Alternative Techniques for Managing Growth, 2d Edition (University of California, Berkeley, Institute for Governmental Studies, 1999), and has conducted workshops and written extensively in the areas of planning, environmental policy, and land use implementation.

Schiffman also authored The Property Rights Challenge: What's a Planner to Do in PCJ #21 (Winter 1996). He has served as a member of the Chico, California, Planning Commission.


Dave Stauffer

Dave StaufferDavid Stauffer has served as city planner and development code administrator for the mountain resort town of Red Lodge, Montana. He headed the city’s planning and zoning commission, and today is a member of the Red Lodge City Council and its land use committee.

Dave is head of the consulting firm of Stauffer Bury Inc. His firm works with progressive developers to "identify and develop the messages that can help convince key audiences—decision-makers, the public, and potential buyers—that your progressive development is the right way to grow." Over the years, his clients have included The Rouse Company, Freddie Mac, Marriott International, and Prime Retail. Dave is the author of four books on corporate success published by John Wiley & Sons, and has written dozens of articles published by Harvard Business School Publishing, The Conference Board, The Wall Street Journal, and others.

For the Planning Commissioners Journal, Dave has authored Smart Messages (Fall 2006), and Emerging Water Shortages Are No Mirage (Spring 2004).


Barbara Sweet

Barbara Sweet serves on the Hyde Park, New York, Masterplan Committee and on the Hyde Park Crossroads Committee (whose intent is to spruce up the original four corner intersection with sidewalks, lighting and planters). She is also Secretary of the Town of Hyde Park Historical Society, and teaches Intro to Computers and Internet to folks 55 and older at Marist College.

Sweet retired from IBM where she worked as an Administrative Assistant to a Senior Engineer and his Staff. Her skills also include being an amateur radio operator.


Ilene Watson

photo of Ilene WatsonIlene Watson is a registered Landscape Architect in Canada and a registered Professional Planner in both the United States and Canada. She has a deep interest in site design, the planning process, and in communication. Watson has worked on projects ranging from comprehensive plans and neighbourhood master plans, to zoning bylaws and design guidelines. She is currently working for the Regional District of Central Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.

Watson has authored three articles for the Planning Commissioners Journal: An Introduction to Design Guidelines (PCJ #41, Winter 2001), An Introduction to Urban Design (PCJ #43, Summer 2001), and Listen! (PCJ #52, Summer 2003).


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