Sustainable Plans and Codes - From Possibilities to Prescriptions

Session 7C | Thursday | 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM (PT)

About the Session

This session focuses on the art and hard work of blending climate, health, and environmental justice into land use plans and codes. Redmond's and Vancouver's Comprehensive Plan periodic updates have creatively engaged community members and developed land use/growth scenarios that put sustainability and inclusion at the forefront. The cities and consultants will demonstrate indices and metrics used both to create and evaluate the land use concepts; these metrics can help form a later monitoring plan. Redmond and Vancouver will also share how they moved from the big ideas and growth concepts around sustainability and inclusion into development codes.

About the Moderator

Lisa Grueter, AICP

Principal, BERK Consulting, Inc.

Lisa Grueter, AICP, Principal at BERK, leads the firm's planning practice. She has more than 35 years of experience in environmental and land use planning. Her expertise includes comprehensive and subarea planning under GMA and the SMA, and customized environmental documentation under SEPA including over three dozen planned action and programmatic EISs. She has led periodic updates for cities and counties in western and eastern Washington addressing urban and rural planning issues. She worked on a model climate element for the Department of Commerce and is working with multiple cities across the region to incorporate climate elements in their plan updates. She received a Master of City Planning from UC Berkeley.

About the Speakers

Beckye M Frey

Senior Long Range Planner

Beckye Frey is the Principal Planner in the City of Redmond's Long Range Planning Team. Beckye has 30 years of policy, plan, and regulation development; community engagement; environmental planning; and regional planning. Her passion lies in helping communities address the needs of those who have traditionally been left out of the planning process, with a particular focus on empowering community members with disabilities and finding ways to improve equity in the built environment.

Domenique Martinelli, AICP

Senior Long Range Planner, City of Vancouver

Domenique Martinelli, AICP, is a senior long-range planner with eight years of experience working in local government. She has a background in land use planning, working with land use codes, development regulations, and long range planning. She works for the City of Vancouver, Washington, playing a pivotal role in updating the City's Comprehensive Plan. She is passionate about systems thinking, urban design, and accessible methods to invite people in to help design policy and develop the future of their community.

Nicole McDermott, AICP

Vice President of Planning, WSP

Nicole McDermott is a vice president of planning with WSP, USA, based in the Vancouver, Washington, office. A professional planner for 17 years, she has worked for the last decade in the Pacific Northwest with local communities to envision and plan their futures. Her work focuses on long-range and comprehensive planning and policy development. She is the consultant team project manager for Our Vancouver and is working closely with the City to develop a plan that will meet the needs of this growing and changing community. Nicole holds a bachelor's degree in architecture and a master's in landscape architecture, both from Auburn University.

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