Local Air Pollution Impacts and Land Use Planning

Session 5D | Thursday | 2:30 – 3:45 PM (PT)

About the Session

This session will explore the latest science related to localized air pollution generated around highways and airports, the implications for equitable land use planning, and what cities can do about it. Speakers will include researchers and planners who will share the latest science as well as case studies of local jurisdictions that are beginning to consider adaptations to planning practices that account for localized air pollution.

About the Moderator

Ian Crozier, AICP

MAKERS

Ian Crozier works with local governments around the state as a planner with MAKERS architecture and urban design. He is passionate about zoning and housing reform, equitable community and youth engagement, and sustainable cities. He is a 2017 graduate of UW's Master of Urban Planning program and was fortunate to receive a Valle scholarship to pursue four months of independent study of vernacular multifamily housing types in Copenhagen. Prior to pursuing planning Ian served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay. He grew up on Vashon Island, WA.

About the Speakers

Andrea Petzel, PHAICP

Broadview Planning

Andrea brings more than 15 years of demonstrated expertise in community-based planning, public engagement, strategic planning, and visioning for large and small communities. With her experience working at the policy nexus of health, sustainability, and the built environment, Andrea has led projects as diverse as implementing a controversial workforce development agreement to increase job prospects in underserved communities, conducting restroom feasibility assessments to address pressing public health concerns and facilitating a visioning process for changes to the criminal justice system. In addition to her work as a consultant, Andrea led multiple groundbreaking policy projects as a senior planner for the City of Seattle, including the development of Seattle's Urban Agriculture legislation, the nation's first comprehensive urban agriculture ordinances that helped increase access to local, healthy food. She continues this work serving on the Leadership Committee for the American Planning Association's Food Interest Group.

Rachel Miller

MAKERS

With 15 years of experience in urban design and community planning, Rachel has built a reputation as a leader in race and social justice initiatives and equitable planning work. She brings multidisciplinary thinking to develop equitable community plans, uses urban design to solve multiple challenges simultaneously, and distills complex information into actionable and community-owned plans. Seeking to elevate voices from traditionally underrepresented populations, Rachel strategizes and leads meaningful stakeholder engagement processes. Rachel has organized and/or presented numerous APA and Walkable Washington conference sessions, mostly centered on urban design and equitable development. Prior to joining MAKERS, she provided technical assistance and mapping analysis in the Seattle Community Planning and Development HUD office; interned in the City of Columbus, Ohio Planning Division; coordinated urban design visioning processes in Fairbanks and North Pole, Alaska; and managed community development projects as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa.

Kris Johnson

Public Health Seattle and King County

Kris Johnson, PhD, is a senior social research scientist with Public Health Seattle & King County's Assessment, Policy Development & Evaluation division. She currently leads an evaluation of community health worker deployment in addition to supporting a team of evaluators. Prior to joining King County, she taught prevention science, family theory and research methods at the University of Minnesota and conducted research for social service agencies in the United States, Australia and Canada to support child protection, adult protective service and other social service agencies. Johnson is committed to equitable evaluation and community-based research. In 2020, she studied and reported on airport-related pollution and community health.

Christine Bae

Christine Bae is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, Seattle. She received her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California. Her primary areas of interest are transportation and the environment; land use, growth management and urban sprawl; urban regeneration; environmental equity and justice; and international planning and globalization. She recently co-authored an article on measuring pedestrian exposure to PM2.5 in the Seattle, Washington, International District and teaches a course “Mega City Planning”, in which I lead a group of students to Seoul, South Korea for two weeks.

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