Acknowledgements

MARC would like to thank the following committee members for giving of their time and talent to make “Creating Quality Places: Successful Communities By Design” a reality.

1999 Steering Committee

MICHAEL J. LALLY, Co-Chair, Council Member, Overland Park
WILLIAM QUITMEIER, Co-Chair, Mayor, City of Parkville
JEFF ALPERT, Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City, Alpert Companies
ROBERT BERKEBILE, BNIM Architects
LARRY BLICK, City of Independence
ARTHUR CHAMBERS, City of Olathe
CHUCK CIANCIARUSO, Chair, Urban Land Institute KC District Council, JE Dunn Construction
PAUL COPAKEN, Copaken White & Blitt
KENT CRIPPIN, Development Research Corp.
DR. JUDY DILTS, Liberty Planning Commission, William Jewell College
JULIE ELFVING (ex officio), US EPA Region 7
WILLIAM EPPERHEIMER , Wyandotte Health Foundation
SCOTT FRANCIS, Francis Families Foundation
LEONARD GRAHAM, Co-chair, KCMO FOCUS Plan, Taliaferro & Browne Consulting Engineers
COLLEEN HERNANDEZ, Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance
JONATHAN KEMPER, Commerce Bancshares, Inc.
CRAIG KENWORTHY, Johnson County Parks & Recreation Commission,
Merriam Planning & Zoning Commission, Swanson Midgley
WHITNEY KERR, SR., Whitney Kerr Real Estate
JOHN W. LANEY, Hall Family Foundations
VICKI NOTEIS, City of Kansas City, Missouri
SISSY REED, Council Member, City of Blue Springs
MUNRO RICHARDSON, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
JEWEL SCOTT, The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City
JIM SCOTT, AIA, AICP, Applied Urban Research Institute
JOHN SEGALE, Council Member, City of Shawnee
KITE SINGLETON, AIA, Chair , KCMO Brownfields Commission
MARGARET THOMAS, Midwest Research Institute
JOSEPH W. VAUGHT, Commissioner, Unified Government
DAVID WATKINS, City of Lenexa

Planning Professionals Advisory Committee

BARBARA BLAYLOCK, City of Gardner
STEVE CHINN, Stinson Mag & Fizzel
ZAC GRAVES, City of Harrisonville
DOUGLAS J. HERMES, City of Liberty
BOB MANN, Bridging the Gap
WILLIAM MEYER, City of Lenexa
LARRY MLNARIK, City of Independence
SKIP MOON, City of Overland Park
CORY SMITH, City of Grandview
KATHLEEN STEELE, U.S. Dept. HHS - Region VII
TIM TRUESDALE, City of Raytown
CAROLYN VELLAR, Northland Neighborhoods, Inc.
ERIC WADE, City of Merriam
KENNETH WATT, Metropolitan Energy Center
STACY SWEARINGEN WHITE, University of Kansas Graduate Program in Urban Planning

Policy Officials Advisory Committee

PEGGY DUNN, Mayor, City of Leawood
DIZA ESKRIDGE, Platte County Commission
CONI HADDEN, Council Member, City of Liberty
JACK HALLIGAN, Council Member, City of Overland Park
TERRY HOPPER SCHEIER, Overland Park Planning Commission
KAREN MESSERLI, Mayor, City of Lee's Summit
BRIAN MILLS, Cass County Commission
TROY NASH, Council Member, City of Kansas City, Missouri
NANCY VENNARD, Council Member, City of Prairie Village
JOAN WENDEL, Mayor, City of Roeland Park

Private Developers Advisory Committee

DANA GIBSON, Gibson & Company
MICHAEL LAUER, Freilich Leitner & Carlisle
STEVE MCDOWELL, BNIM Architects
ROBB MCKIM, Peckham Guyten Alber & Viets, Inc.
SCOTT MICHIE, Bucher Willis & Ratliff
DIANE MOEHLENBRINK, Metropolitan Kansas City Board of Realtors
TED MURRAY, Winbury Group
RACHEL REED NANCE, Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City
ORA REYNOLDS, Hunt Midwest
ERIK SARTORIUS, Johnson County Board of Realtors
CHARLIE SUNDERLAND, Ash Grove Cement Company
H. DARBY TROTTER, Faultless Starch/Bon Ami
TIM UNDERWOOD, Home Builders Association
RON YAFFE, J.C. Nichols Co.
BECKY ZAHNER, HNTB

MARC would also like to recognize the following special advisers for their contributions to this project:

Gianni Longo, ACP – Visioning and Planning, New York, New York
HNTB New Media, HNTB Urban Design and Planning, Kansas City, Missouri

The Creating Quality Places program is supported in part by a Sustainable Development Challenge Grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency, and a Transportation and Community and System Preservation Grant from the Federal Highway Administration.

 

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