HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-13-22 City Commission Meeting - UDC Work Session Supplemental MaterialsUDC CONSULTANT TEAM PROFILES
Code Studio is an Austin, Texas-based firm which pursues planning and implementation work that yields
vibrant, mixed use, walkable communities through creative urban infill, incremental redevelopment and
transformational change. Founded in 2006, the firm is nationally renowned for its highly visual page layout,
simple graphics and easily understood and enforced text. The firm works across the United States completing
combined plan and code projects, as well as working on codes in places planned and designed by others.
Their approach focuses on translating planning and design concepts into regulatory language to create the
physical “place” envisioned by a community. When they craft new regulations, Code Studio believes they must
be fully understood by local citizens and property owners, be easily administered by local staff, produce a
predictable end result, and above all, fit within the existing legal and regulatory framework.
Founded in 1990, Logan Simpson employs more than 120 staff with a collection of more than 700 total (and
more than 50 award-winning) design and planning projects to their names. In both planning and design,
Logan Simpson strives to understand the relationships between the elements that create a sense of place
and the social fabric that creates a sense of community. The firm has developed land use code updates;
comprehensive plans; downtown plans; mobility, housing, and economic plans; and functional placemaking
opportunities for rural and urban, mountain and plains communities in Montana, Colorado, Utah, Idaho,
Wyoming, Florida, and Arizona. Their planners are experienced in drafting, revising, and updating a wide
variety of land use regulations, including zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, and special-purpose
regulations.
Interboro Partners is an award-winning design firm offering inventive and inclusive architecture, urban
design, and planning services. Their participatory, place-specific approach creates consensus around complex
projects ranging from buildings, parks, and open spaces to neighborhood, city, and regional plans. Interboro
is known for developing creative and fun engagement materials (which include interactive models, games,
newspapers, graphic novels, pop-up furniture, and even an ice cream truck), and for their ability to reach
audiences that are often marginalized or excluded from conventional planning and design processes. People
are empowered when they understand the often complex processes that make their environment. Interboro’s
team uses art and design in innovative ways to make urban planning and policy accessible, visible, and
negotiable by a wide audience.
Nina P. Williams is partner and founder of Wilson Williams. For over 15 years, Nina has practiced in local
government and zoning law, dealing with all aspects of land use, development, legislation, personnel
and government operations. She specializes in land use code diagnosis, analysis, revision and drafting to
implement planning goals. Nina Williams currently serves as designated Town and City Attorney for variety
of communities, as well as special counsel to other towns and cities, on zoning and planning matters. Nina
assists town and city managers, administrators, planners, community developers and clerks on a daily
basis. In addition to city councils and town boards, Nina advises numerous planning commissions, boards of
adjustment, zoning boards of appeals and variance boards.