facilitators:
- Chris Eaton
Chris
has worked in planning and development for over fifteen years. After working
for non-profit, public and private employers, she co-founded
Angelo Eaton & Associates in 1999. Her experience includes project
management and planning for growth management, land use, transportation
and development projects. She is an articulate and energetic representative
for clients in both the public and private sectors. Chris is recognized
as an excellentfacilitator and has helped various groups through challenging
policy anddesign issues such as mixed use master planning, Green Street
designs,Residential Infill ordinances, regional growth management compliance
andland use measures that implement Smart Development principles.
Chris is an alternate to Metro's Transportation Policy Advisory Committee(TPAC)
and recently completed a second term as a Board member of the OregonChapter
of the American Planning Association. She is a frequent speaker atlocal
and national conferences on a variety of topics. Recent presentationsincluded:
"Durham Quarry/Bridgeport Village Charrette - Green Infrastructurein
a Mixed Use Project" at the Tualatin Valley Water Quality Endowment
Fundannual conference, March 2002, and "How to Start a Consultant
Firm" at theNational American Planning Association annual conference
in Chicago, April 2002.
- Warren Byrd
Background:
Warren T. Byrd, Jr. has taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture
for over 20 years. He was chair of the department from 1986 to 1992. He
currently teaches design studios in the second and third year and courses
in plants and drawing. Mr. Byrd is involved in an active private practice,
heading a ten-person firm (Susan Nelson-Warren Byrd, Landscape Architects)
in Charlottesville, Virginia. This professional work includes public gardens
(botanic gardens and arboreta), parks, town planning, institutional site
planning, corporate (work/plan) environments and private gardens. Current
projects include Nike's European Headquarters in the Netherlands, park
and landscape development for a new town in Florida's panhandle, a new
panda exhibit for the National Zoo in Washington, DC, site planning and
landscape developement for several Ford Motor Company sites, sites and
landscape plans for the Sarah P. Duke Garden at Duke University, master
plans for the State Arboretum of Virginia, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum,
and Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, and numberous small and
large private gardens in New York, Connecticut, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Florida, Michigan and Virginia.
Mr. Byrd continues to publish articles, lectures, serves on awards juries and election panels and participates in design workshops for public planning initiatives throughout the country.