2018 Resilient Imperial Beach LCP/GP Update AECOM City of Imperial Beach 2018 Resilient Imperial Beach (RIB) Local Coastal Program (LCP) / General Plan (GP) Update

Prepared for City of Imperial Beach Ryan Wiggins February 28, 2017 410 West A Street, Suite 1200 San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 610-7718 [email protected] PROPOSAL FOR 2018 Resilient Imperial Beach LCP/GP Update AECOM City of Imperial Beach 2018 Resilient Imperial Beach (RIB) Local Coastal Program (LCP) / General Plan (GP) Update

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Cover Letter ��1

II. Proposer’s Strategic Plan ��3

III. Qualifications and Experience ��16

IV. List of Project Personnel ��27

V. Organization Chart ��65

VI. Insurance Coverage ��66

VII. Schedule of Rates ��67

Table of Contents | TOC I. Cover Letter

I. Cover Letter

2018 RESILIENT IMPERIAL BEACH LCP/GP UPDATE AECOM 619.610.7600 tel 401 West A Street, Suite 1200 619.610.7601 fax San Diego, CA 92101 www.aecom.com

February 28, 2017

Mr. James Nakagawa, AICP City Planner Community Development Department City of Imperial Beach 825 Imperial Beach Blvd. Imperial Beach, CA 91932

SUBJECT: 2018 Resilient Imperial Beach Local Coastal Program/General Plan Update

Dear Mr. Nakagawa,

The City of Imperial Beach has laid out an ambitious plan to update its Local Coastal Program (LCP)/ General Plan (GP) with a scope of work designed to comprehensively address climate change and resiliency, with a vision toward achieving long-term, positive change. AECOM would like to help the City in this quest to increase climate resiliency, become more sustainable, and enhance economic prosperity while respecting the community’s core values and principles. In order to achieve an updated LCP that is implementable and integrates into broader planning goals, the City needs a consultant team with strong land use planning and technical qualifications, specific experience with coastal adaptation planning and Coastal Commission consultation, scenario planning, climate and mobility expertise, and an in-depth knowledge of San Diego and the California legislative framework. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. (AECOM) is that team. Below we offer an overview of our project understanding, approach, and the skills and capacities our team brings to complete the work on time and on schedule. The City of Imperial Beach has taken a leadership role in preparing for climate change, and through the Resilient Imperial Beach LCP/GP work program, is seeking to continue its progress in achieving greater resiliency. The AECOM team has the experience and knowledge of these efforts to help the City position itself to take advantage of potential grant and incentive programs addressing energy efficiency, active transportation, smart growth, and hazard mitigation projects. AECOM’s team is well-equipped to provide technical assistance, strategic guidance and best practices insights to help ensure that the overall program meets the City’s goals. We have a wide range of coastal, climate, economic, and transportation planning experience, as well as a strong understanding of the local landscape. Yara Fisher, Principal-In-Charge, an experienced project manager who has prepared LCPs, CEQA documents, general plans, zoning ordinances and climate strategies during her nearly 19 years of experience at AECOM. Our Project Manager, Nancy Bragado, brings 30 years of local government planning experience, serving as Deputy Planning Director for the City of San Diego prior to joining AECOM. Nancy managed San Diego’s General Plan Update, played a critical leadership role in the development of the City’s Climate Action Plan, served as a lead author of the urban and infrastructure chapter of the Third National Climate Assessment: Climate Change Impacts in the United States, and was on the Steering Committee for the ICLEI Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategy for San Diego Bay report. Deputy Project Manager, Ryan Wiggins has over 10 years leading sustainability and climate policy, economics, and planning initiatives at the federal, state, regional, and local levels. This includes working with state agencies and other stakeholders to establish and manage California’s Cap-and- Trade climate change funding programs and private and public parties at the regional and municipal levels to successfully position themselves for millions of dollars in grant funding. He also has expertise in sustainable economic development strategies. Senior Advisor Claire Bonham-Carter is a leading national and international climate policy and planning expert who has led high-profile large and small climate planning projects including the development of the World Bank’s Climate Action for

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Urban Sustainability (CURB) Tool and award winning climate action and adaptation plans for cities and agencies throughout the state of California. Our team is made stronger with the addition of both Summit Environmental Group and Chen Ryan Associates. Summit Environmental Group has broad and deep experience in coastal policy, regulation, and effective engagement with the Coastal Commission, while Chen Ryan Associates has expertise in numerous aspects of multi-modal transportation planning and sustainability including Complete Streets and active transportation, transit-oriented neighborhoods, and greenhouse gas reduction. Additional information on relevant local, state, national, and international projects led by our team members is described within this proposal. We have included related project descriptions, references, staff billing rate schedule, and other items requested in the RFP. Key Project Objectives: A more resilient, sustainable, and economically prosperous community that maintains and enhances its core identity To help achieve these goals the core project deliverables will: • Contain a coherent and defensible policy framework that supports sustainable development, preservation and restoration of coastal resources, enhanced public access to the coastline, and consistency with the Coastal Act • Provide for local control of coastal regulation • Provide greater certainty to the development community and decision makers in matters of land use and infrastructure planning and development • Establish climate mitigation and adaptation policies that meet sustainability targets and achieve significant co-benefits • Include policies designed to promote investment in infrastructure and a built environment that protects and catalyzes economic growth • Support the long-term economic and fiscal health of Imperial Beach • Encourage the preservation and enhancement of Imperial Beach’s natural resources to further establish it as a destination for eco-minded visitors • Lay the foundation for enhanced mobility, connectivity, and access between the various neighborhoods of the city, the coastal zone, and the region as a whole • Promote better communication and collaboration between decision-makers and the community at large

The AECOM team is committed to helping Imperial Beach achieve these goals with superior technical expertise, efficiency, clear communication, thorough public engagement, and a commitment to cost-effectiveness. We look forward to the opportunity to further discuss how our team is ideally positioned to address the challenges and opportunities this project presents.

Sincerely,

William Anderson, Vice President Nancy Bragado 619-610-7708 619-610-7739 [email protected] [email protected]

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II. Proposer’s Strategic Plan

2018 RESILIENT IMPERIAL BEACH LCP/GP UPDATE AECOM City of Imperial Beach 2018 Resilient Imperial Beach (RIB) Local Coastal Program (LCP) / General Plan (GP) Update

II. PROPOSER’S STRATEGIC PLAN

AECOM has assembled a team that will deliver outstanding service and results to the City of Imperial Beach. Our team brings a wealth of coastal policy, general plan, public outreach and technical expertise, along with an in-depth The overriding goal for Imperial understanding of local government and Coastal Commission processes. We will collaborate with Beach shall be the retention of the City staff to develop the 2018 Resilient Imperial quality of life and atmosphere of a Beach (RIB) Local Coastal Program (LCP)/General Plan (GP) Update in a manner that defines the small beach-oriented town. City’s unique qualities and characteristics, Imperial Beach, General Plan & reflects local preferences and objectives, and Local Coastal Plan aligns with and implements the City’s long-term vision and values. The LCP/GP will be updated to develop policies that address all current topics project currently underway, and the legal and that are being addressed in LCP updates locally cost/benefit analysis forthcoming by the San and statewide that are funded though California Diego Climate Collaborative. Based on these Coastal Commission (CCC) LCP Planning Grants studies and our recent experience with similar (Rounds 1-3). Sea level rise analyses, vulnerability efforts, key issues that will be addressed in the assessments and adaptation planning are of LCP/GP include: coastal hazards, beach erosion, particular concern due to increased risk from sea level rise (SLR) resiliency and adaptation, storms, flooding, inundation and accelerated beach sand nourishment options, shoreline beach erosion. protection including sand retention devices, phased relocation of structures and infrastructure, There is a strong body of knowledge that provides wetlands ecosystems, public coastal access, an excellent basis for developing LCP/GP policies. redevelopment and new development, water Key resources include the 2016 City of Imperial quality, visual resource protection, no-cost Beach Sea Level Rise Assessment (IB SLR and lower-cost visitor-serving commercial and Assessment), the final CoSMoS 3.0 coastal hazard recreational uses, and environmental justice. mapping, the ICLEI Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategy for San Diego Bay (2012), the Climate Understanding and Resilience in the River Valley

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The RIB LCP/GP will also be drafted to be Coastal Act, can be supported by CCC staff, consistent with, and achieve co-benefits with and distinctly embodies Imperial Beach’s natural, regional, state, and federal initiatives, including social, and economic characteristics and long San Diego Forward: The Regional Plan, California term priorities. We will ensure that the plan is General Plan law, Coastal Act requirements, consistent and integrated with the City’s land use AB 1358, SB 743, and Federal Emergency vision as expressed in the General Plan and “Big Management Agency (FEMA)-mandated hazard Picture” vision document, and supportive of goals mitigation planning. The AECOM team has the resulting from the City’s 2005 Urban Waterfront experience and knowledge of these efforts to and Ecotourism Study and Palm Avenue Mixed help the City position itself to take advantage of Use & Commercial Corridor Master Plan, while potential grant and incentive programs addressing also remaining flexible to address refinements that energy efficiency, active transportation, smart may emerge through the course of the planning growth, and hazard mitigation projects. program through stakeholder outreach and/or direction provided by the City’s elected officials . In addition, a Climate Action Plan mitigation component will be incorporated into the LCP/ The Tasks outlined below are consistent GP work program to more fully address climate with those proposed for the LCP grant, and change impacts than a plan solely focused on supplemented to meet the City’s objectives to adaptation. Particular emphasis will be given more comprehensively address climate mitigation to policies that address climate adaptation and Complete Streets in its LCP/GP. The key and mitigation to maximize cost-efficiencies project challenges and our strategy/approach to and put Imperial Beach on strong footing to addressing them are summarized below. Unless compete for federal, state, and local grant funding otherwise noted, experience is drawn from opportunities. AECOM projects.

The RIB LCP/GP will be developed such that it implements key provisions of Chapter 3 of the

AECOM’S PROACTIVE APPROACH TO KEY PROJECT CHALLENGES

RELEVANT ISSUES SOLUTIONS BENEFITS EXPERIENCE LCP/GP UPDATE Local Coastal Programs, City of Solana Beach, San Clemente (Summit)

A focused policy update Up-to-date LCP and San Dieguito LCP, LUP, with mutually supportive climate mitigation- and Implementation Outdated LCP/General LCP/GP policies that related policies. GIS Plan (IP) Plan –data and policies integrate LCP and City mapping that will be over 24 years old goals, while clearly available for integration City of San Diego defining the roles of into and inform future General Plan and each. initiatives and analysis community plan updates*

City of San Diego Ocean Beach Community Plan/LCP *

*Nancy Bragado’s role was with the City of San Diego prior to joining AECOM. AECOM assisted the City with evaluating the impacts of its "City of Villages" General Plan, and is updating several of its community plans. Chen Ryan Associates is also involved in multiple community plan updates.

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RELEVANT ISSUES SOLUTIONS BENEFITS EXPERIENCE LCP/GP UPDATE (Continued...)

SANDAG Regional Transit Oriented Allows for a mobility Development (TOD) Circulation Element – Perform a policy update update without Strategy update per AB 1358 and using established data performing costly SB 743 sources model runs and Multiple general and intersection analysis community plan mobility elements (Chen Ryan)

San Dieguito LCP Selection of strategies Foster economic Supports resource Chula Vista Economic and policies that are development including protection, economic Development Strategy mutually beneficial and recreational- and eco- development, and support economic tourism coastal access goals Draft Port of San development goals Diego, Port Master Plan (PMPU)

The Checklist will Prepare policy audit, facilitate City Staff’s Draft Port of San Diego Ensure Internal and gaps analysis, and ability to effectively rely PMPU External Consistency consistency checklist. on the LUP for policy City of San Clemente guidance.

Provide a clear path to Solana Beach LCP – IP, Emphasize IP readability Clearly written development consistent San Dieguito LCP, LUP, and streamlining, with document with with Coastal Act, and and IP clear and consistent GIS mapping and character and feel of IB. implementation graphically rich format. Will “connect the dots” City of Long Beach of the IB Big Picture Downtown Plan

Include policies related Establishing a Address additional to other climate change framework for increased City of San Diego CAP (beyond SLR) adaptation effects including wildfire long term resiliency issue areas risks, heat, public health, to climate change City of La Mesa CAP energy use and drought. including SLR

Accurate and Bifurcate work into grant Project management transparent project City of Solana Beach eligible and non-eligible system allows for accounting and faster and City of San tasks. multiple invoices reimbursement to the Clemente LCP updates City from CCC

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RELEVANT ISSUES SOLUTIONS BENEFITS EXPERIENCE COASTAL HAZARDS Consult IB SLR Assessment (2016) to A clear understanding assess vulnerabilities Adapting to of potential effects will and review various Rising Tides: San allow the City to craft policy responses. Francisco Bay Area policies, programs, and Impacts of Sea Level Transportation Consult San Diego regulations to more Rise Vulnerability and Risk Climate Collaborative fully address them Assessment & Climate NOAA grant results for given uncertainties in Change Adaptation additional guidance SLR predictions and Pilot Project on assessing legal scenarios and risk management approaches. Draft Port of San Diego PMPU

Encinitas Rail Corridor Provide an effective A plan that is better Vision Plan public outreach plan Stakeholder informed and has that engages the FEMA Region IX Coordination and Public a higher potential general public as well as California Coastal Outreach for successful those most affected by Analysis and Mapping implementation impacts. Project SANDAG Travel Behavior Bike Audit (Chen Ryan )

Scope of Work 1.2. Refine Project Work Plan and Outline and Issues Analysis Report Task 1. Work Plan and Outline To ensure the scope of work accurately reflects the 1.1. Steering Committee Meeting with City’s objectives, the AECOM team will work with Consultant Team and Commission Staff staff to refine the approved Coastal Commission scope of work. A Refined Work Plan/Outline will To initiate the project, a kick-off meeting with key be prepared to identify the LUP/General Plan AECOM team members, Coastal Commission elements that need to be amended to meet the staff, LCP Steering Committee members and City Coastal Commission’s current guidance for LCPs. staff will be held. This meeting will help clarify goals This task includes development of an Issues and expectations for the project and establish the Analysis Report to identify key issues that need schedule for key milestones within the context to be addressed. We suggest preparing a matrix of the CCC LCP Planning Grant. Although not to facilitate the review of the City’s current LUP/ included in Task 1 of the RFP, we also suggest General Plan in comparison to the LCP Update meeting with SANDAG staff and University of Guide. San Diego Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC) representatives to initiate the Climate Action Plan Informed by the Issues Analysis Report, the component of the work. Following the meetings, Refined Work Plan will allocate resources AECOM will prepare meeting summaries. appropriately to address work program items where gaps have been identified. For example,

II. Proposer’s Strategic Plan | 6 AECOM City of Imperial Beach 2018 Resilient Imperial Beach (RIB) Local Coastal Program (LCP) / General Plan (GP) Update some elements of the LCP may require lower levels (through reallocation from other tasks) to allow for of effort to complete due to work already done as a a more thorough evaluation of project needs up part of the recently completed IB SLR Assessment front, which will result in cost savings for later tasks. and by USGS as part of the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMosS 3.0) development, Task 1 - Outcomes/Deliverables: while others may require a larger share of the work • Refined Work Plan and Outline program. The Refined Work Plan will clearly identify • Issues Analysis Report areas where data, policies, and other components are older and may therefore require more effort to updates. Task 2. Draft LUP

Development of the CAP component of the work 2.1. Steering Committee, Stakeholder, and program involves significant data collection. As CCC Coordination Meetings detailed above in Task 1.1, given the potentially high-level of effort related to the Climate Action The AECOM team will work closely with the Plan component of the work, we suggest the City from the outset of the planning process to addition of an additional meeting with EPIC and establish an outreach and communications plan SANDAG representatives to further inform the related to Steering Committee and Stakeholder Refined Work Plan. Importantly, this coordination meetings, including notices, schedules, and will facilitate an updated GHG inventory and topics. We will build upon lessons learned from forecast, leverage SANDAG and EPIC resources, the outreach conducted during the recently and to the extent feasible reduce the expenditure completed SLR Assessment. The AECOM team of City funds and any delays to the LCP work includes planners and outreach specialists with program. experience in traditional as well as innovative outreach tools. Our team also has specific In addition, given that the City is seeking to amend experience engag¬ing agency stakeholders, multiple elements of the General Plan that go including the Coastal Commission. beyond the typical scope of an LCP update, it will be necessary for our team and the City to Steering Committee Meetings collaboratively identify an approach for producing The Steering Committee, comprised of City an environmental document; whether that be a staff and representatives from a diverse range mitigated negative declaration or other option, that of groups as noted on page 7 of the RFP, will play meets environmental review requirements along a critical role in the program, providing ongoing with project budget and timeline parameters. This and specific feedback throughout the planning approach will also be vetted with local CCC staff process. The Steering Committee is anticipated managing the grant. to provide a tremendous base of technical and policy expertise, and a greater understanding of The Refined Work Plan/Outline will form the community dynamics, that will be an asset to the foundational framework for the development of project and increase the chances of successful the Local Coastal Program. It will also suggest implementation of the City’s long term land use efficiencies for delivery and review of deliverables vision. that will maximize the project budget and streamline communication and decision-making All Steering Committee meetings will have a processes. specific purpose and outcomes linked to key planning milestones. We recommend the following AECOM will provide a finalized timeline and budget Steering Committee Meetings during Task 2: that meets grant timeline requirements and contains specific deadlines, action items, meetings • Meeting 1: Identification of issues and and deliverables identified for each Subtask or challenges, and feedback on prioritization of group of Subtasks identified in the scope of work. adaptation strategies for modification into To facilitate grant quarterly progress reporting policies requirements, we will clearly bifurcate the work into • Meeting 2: Feedback on key draft policies, the respective grant (reimbursement) eligible and prior to development of the Administrative/ non-eligible categories. We recommend that the Review Draft LUP current budget allocation for Task 1 be increased

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• Meeting 3: Review and comment on Use Plan (LUP). The AECOM team will perform a Administrative/Review Draft LUP focused policy update to the City’s General Plan to address key City and Coastal Commission issues. Stakeholder Meetings Components of the City’s General Plan update In addition to engaging the Steering Committee, that are not included in the LCP (e.g., pertain to AECOM will lead stakeholder meetings to provide areas outside the Coastal zone) will be clearly additional opportunities for public input and review. differentiated. The composition of the Stakeholders group will include those listed on page 7 of the RFP, as well as 2.2.1. Apply Strategies from the IB SLR additional interested individuals and/or groups that Assessment may emerge through the outreach process. The IB SLR Assessment identified the anticipated Stakeholder meetings held early in a planning impacts of SLR on coastal and shoreline assets, process are critical for building relationships in the which include people, resources, and infrastructure outreach process, disseminate accurate information spanning both private and public property within about the project and participation opportunities, the City’s coastal zone. It performed detailed and quickly understand diverse perspectives of physical and economic analysis on the five on issues and opportunities. We recommend two adaptation strategies, listed below: stakeholder meetings during Task 2: • Protecting/armoring of the entire coastline • Meeting 1: Identification of issues and • Phased relocation (managed or planned challenges, and feedback on prioritization of retreat) adaptation strategies for modification into policies • “Business-as-usual” beach sand nourishment • Meeting 2: Feedback on key draft policies, prior to development of the Administrative/ • Hybrid sand dune and cobble berm Review Draft LUP approach • Five groins w/associated beach sand Participants will be invited to attend future public nourishment workshops and encouraged to help spread the word to encourage others to attend the The potential vulnerabilities and anticipated risks workshops. Our budget assumes stakeholder identified in the SLR assessment will be used to meetings will be held in a focus group format (e.g., develop LUP SLR policies. As recommended by not individual meetings with each stakeholder). the IB SLR Assessment, LUP policies will be drafted to decrease vulnerabilities, and increase Imperial Coastal Commission Coordination Beach’s resilience to climate change through As a part of project initiation, the AECOM team policies that address hybrid solutions, a phased- will meet with City Staff and Coastal Commission trigger approach, monitoring, inter-jurisdictional staff to discuss the recently completed adaptation collaboration, and alignment with the community’s report and proposed LCP work program. This vision and values. For each identified vulnerability will be followed by Steering Committee meetings area, AECOM will evaluate hybrid solutions that and Stakeholder engagement opportunities to address each of these components. A matrix will establish a common base of knowledge, identify be prepared summarizing issues and possible key areas and topics of concern, and clarify solutions for each area. This matrix will also help expectations at the beginning of the process. form the basis for targeted public outreach, to help 2.2. Develop Administrative/Review Draft Land identify and reach individuals and groups who are Use Plan most directly affected, and build upon prior input received through the IB SLR Assessment. To assist the City in the development of the RIB LCP/GP, AECOM will partner with Leslea Meyerhoff, 2.2.2. Policy Audit AICP, Principal with Summit, and Chen Ryan AECOM will perform a policy audit to ensure Associates. As 87 percent of the City is within consistency with other City planning documents. the Coastal Zone, the City’s General Plan will The AECOM team will review the existing adopted also serve as the Local Coastal Program Land General Plan and Bicycle Transportation Plan, the

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City’s 2005 Urban Waterfront and Ecotourism and benefits associated with implementation of Study, the Palm Avenue Master Plan, and a hybrid mix of SLR adaptation measures and other efforts as recommended by City staff. strategies. This information will help inform the Development of LCP/GP policies will also draw development of LUP policies and implementation upon: priorities. For this subtask, AECOM assumes that the San Diego Climate Collaborative cost/benefit –– California Coastal Commission Sea Level analysis will be completed and available for review. Rise Policy Guidance document (2015) and Local Coastal Program (LCP) Update Guide. 2.2.4. Mapping and Graphics

–– State of California climate change and Baseline maps will be prepared that will form the general plan-related legislation basis for all LCP/GP maps. A consistent format and –– Office of Planning & Research General Plan presentation of maps will enhance the readability guidelines, (currently in draft form, final and clarity of the LCP/GP. For this subtask version is forthcoming) AECOM assumes that maps prepared for the IB –– San Diego Forward: The Regional Plan, SLR Assessment will be available for import. In including the Sustainable Communities collaboration with City staff AECOM will identify Strategy and the Regional Transit Oriented the extent of maps that need to be updated and Development Strategy incorporated into the LCP/GP. As information is collected, AECOM will integrate the data into –– Additional SANDAG references and GIS and provide data layers to the City that will resources facilitate any future advance planning work. –– San Diego Climate Collaborative work products 2.2.5. Policy Development

The results of the Policy Audit will be provided in The update of the LCP Land Use Plan policies will a memorandum that will identify recommended be the heart of the RIB LCP/GP work program. new policy topics to be addressed in the LUP, and The Land Use Plan lays out the policy framework suggest where amendments to existing policy for addressing all planning and permitting that documents should be considered. Given that much occurs within the City’s coastal zone. This effort of the General Plan/LCP is over 24 years old, it is will integrate climate action planning, results anticipated that the work program will include a from the previous SLR and adaptation studies focused update to policies in multiple elements of (IB SLR Assessment, Climate Understanding & the General Plan. Resilience in the River Valley, and the ICLEI San Diego Bay strategy) and results of the 2005 2.2.3. Economic and Fiscal Impact Analysis and Urban Waterfront and Ecotourism Study, into an Alignment overall set of policies that set a long term vision for the City. The roles and relationship of the Policies and measures will only be effective if they LCP to the comprehensive General Plan will be are implementable. AECOM recognizes that the described. Components of the LCP work program, City’s status as a unique and accessible coastal including the mapping, data collection, and policy activity destination is a critical component of its development, will be used to provide a focused long-term economic development strategy and update to elements of the General Plan. fiscal prosperity. Maintenance and enhancement of its public beaches and pier, national wildlife The AECOM team will work with City staff refuge access, and small coastal community to prepare up to six focused policy papers character are a few of the critical assets that need describing specific and unique local conditions to be considered and accounted for. As such, and community interests that are the foundation of the AECOM team intends to build upon the San the City’s LUP policy/positions where the City and Diego Climate Collaborative cost/benefit analysis CCC staff may have differing viewpoints. For each currently in development, the City’s existing policy paper that is needed, we will summarize the ecotourism study, and the economic and fiscal nature of any disagreement between the City staff analysis done as a part of the IB SLR Assessment. and CCC staff including a reference to the relevant AECOM will supplement the previous work with section(s) of the Coastal Act and the LUP policy(s). estimates of potential economic and fiscal costs

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We have found this to be an effective approach to management strategies. Additionally our team clarifying local preferences and focusing in on key will prepare an assessment of potential GHG/VMT policies of primary interest for the City. reduction strategies in these policies using the California Air Pollution Control Officers Associates The City has called for the LCP work program (CAPCOA) resource document “Quantifying to support local economic development goals Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Measures.” For and include a climate action component. These additional detail on the Mobility approach, see components and supporting data will inform Attachment 1. development of the Land Use Element and LCP, and vice-versa. LCP policies will be advanced that AECOM will also propose policies that create protect and enhance economic and sustainability synergies with the City’s 2005 Urban Waterfront infrastructure and resources, including natural and Ecotourism Study and reinforce efforts to resources, reduce climate change impacts, reduce promote the City’s beaches and natural areas transaction costs and risk, and will define allowable as destinations for the eco-minded visitor and development to spur investments that mutually residents. reinforce economic development, climate action and SLR adaptation goals. The LCP will also be The preparation of the Draft LUP will synthesize mindful of implementation costs associated with the information gathered and work produced various SLR adaptation strategies and will strive for in all previous tasks. This task involves close efficiencies and co-benefits to minimize potential coordination with staff in the form of meetings and cost burdens for real estate and development that teleconferences. We will seek input from the CCC are consistent with the City’s General Plan and staff at strategic points during the development of LCP. Policies that address both climate adaptation the updated LUP. The AECOM team has developed and mitigation, such as Complete Streets, will be productive working relationships with key staff in emphasized in order to maximize cost-efficiencies. the San Diego District office of the CCC. Our recent local experience with the preparation of several The work plan will address the coastal resource LUP’s indicates that CCC staff will provide both protection and public coastal access policies informal input during meetings, as well as formal necessary to achieve the objectives of the Coastal input on submitted documents. Act while ensuring , local goals, policies and preferences are well articulated within the draft The AECOM team’s extensive public agency documents submitted to the CCC for review. The experience will help ensure the production AECOM team will follow the CCC’s LCP Update of an LUP that meets the City’s and Coastal Guide (2013) and SLR Guidance document , Commission’s goals, is aligned with the City’s specifically related to public access, recreation broader planning framework, and is responsive and visitor serving facilities, water quality to state and regional plans and initiatives. The protection, sensitive habitats and other natural completed plan will be designed to be easily resource protection, coastal hazards and coastal understood, consistently implementable, and scenic resources protection. aligned with City goals and objectives. The outcome of the LUP Update process will be Per direction in the RFP, additional analysis will be a comprehensively revised Draft LUP which spent on updating the Circulation component of addresses potential concerns through effective the LCP to address Complete Streets and support long term policies and land use planning, and Transit Oriented Development. The AECOM team positions Imperial Beach to be able to successfully will carefully craft policy language to address any/ compete for future grant regional, state and federal all identified deficiencies, and establish a path funding. toward achieving the vision of Imperial Beach as a community with a well-balanced mobility network. This includes a focus on research and policies that are critical to achieving Complete Streets, such as approaches addressing: reductions in vehicle miles travelled (VMT), person trip generation, new standards for quantifiable thresholds in urban/mixed use environments, traffic calming, transportation demand management, and parking

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2.3. Draft LUP review by Commission Staff and 2.6. Revise LUP Stakeholders The AECOM team will take the feedback provided AECOM will perform the following: by City staff and through the outreach process on the Draft LUP document prepared in Task 2.2 and • Provide an initial draft of the LUP for review by Task 2.3, to prepare a Revised Draft LUP. the Coastal Commission • Review and discuss Coastal Commission 2.7. Develop Coastal Act Consistency comments to draft LCP with project team, Checklist stakeholders, and Commission staff. Work A Coastal Act Consistency Checklist will be closely with City/Coastal Commission staff prepared to provide a clear crosswalk between on revisions to the draft LCP to ensure Coastal Act requirements and the City’s proposed consistency with the Coastal Act. LUP policies. The Checklist will be in the form of • Receive Coastal Commission preliminary a table that includes: numbered policy references, comments/suggested edits, review and policy descriptions, and associated Coastal Act discuss comments with City Staff, project section numbers. This will help facilitate Coastal team, stakeholders and Coastal Commission Commission review during the approval phase, • Conduct additional research based on City and serve to provide clear guidance to staff input or stakeholder input, if needed. and the development community as the LUP is implemented over time. • Revise and update the draft LCP based on subtasks above to ensure consistency with Task 2 - Outcomes/Deliverables: the Coastal Act. • Coastal Act Consistency Checklist, • Participate in monthly teleconference calls/ • Administrative/Review Draft LUP; meetings with Coastal Commission staff • Revised Draft LUP that addresses CCC Staff 2.4. Joint Council/TAC/DRB/PRC Study suggested edits. Session 1 - LUP

AECOM will present the Administrative/Review Task 3. Draft IP Draft LUP to a joint study session with the City Council, Tidelands Advisory Committee (TAC), The Implementation Plan includes the land use Design Review Board (DRB), and Parks & Recreation zoning and other regulations that conform with Commission (PRC). AECOM will take notes and and carry out the policies contained within the provide a meeting summary. LCP Land Use Plan. It will provide site-specific regulatory implementation language upon which 2.5. Public Workshop #1 – LUP Focus permit decisions are reviewed against. An effective IP is a powerful tool to incrementally implement the AECOM facilitators emphasize the simple City’s vision and goals, and reduce vulnerability presentation of technical information, as well from climate change impacts. as targeted discussion questions, to allow for meaningful feedback from the public. The 3.1. Steering Committee Meeting workshop program would be determined in consultation with the City. However, our initial Steering Committee meetings may be topical in recommendation is that the workshop agenda nature (e.g., meetings to discuss potential ESHA include the following elements: or coastal hazard development regulations) or to elicit feedback on successive drafts of the IP). We • A simple overview of the LCP (“what is an suggest that 3 Steering Committee meetings be LCP?”), and its requirements and benefits; held during Task 3. • A brief introduction into SLR vulnerabilities and key policies, and/or policies that represent a significant change from current City policy

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3.2. Develop Administrative/Review Draft IP and marine resources, coastal hazards, visual resources, and cultural resources AECOM will prepare zoning and specific among others--sometimes integrated into development regulations (and possible categorical zoning district regulations or sometimes exclusions) for coastal zone activities. The resultant comprising separate sections of the local Draft IP will emphasize readability and streamlined zoning code and applying wherever the permit review procedures. issue is present. Procedural standards and requirements for protection of resources and AECOM will review existing City Zoning and public access will be provided. These may Municipal Code regulations, City permit issuance include existing requirements for technical processes/fees, sample IPs, and CCC Guidance on studies or other procedures intended to the preparation of an updated IPs. We suggest that protect sensitive coastal resources. this information be used to develop an IP Approach and Outline Document as an interim deliverable ○○ Other regulations, such as for landscaping, for review with City Staff, the Coastal Commission, parking, signs, grading, subdivisions, etc., and additional stakeholders, as necessary. The IP that affect the kind, location, or intensity Approach and Outline Document may consist of of new development in the coastal zone. a matrix comparing updated LCP policies in one The IP will identify and reference existing column with the recommended corresponding regulations applicable to the LCP area, and implementation provisions in the other column. propose new regulations where needed to This will serve as a “gap analysis” identifying ensure that all LCP policies are addressed. where existing provisions will apply and where ○○ Procedures for processing coastal permits. additional standards and regulations may need to The IP will contain text and flow charts be developed. describing the application, permit review, and appeal process. A reference to any fees Implementation Plans vary widely from jurisdiction established by the City will be included within to jurisdiction depending upon the location, natural this section. setting, and complexity of issues. Consistent with the components recommended by the CCC’s ○○ Procedures for processing LCP LCP Update Guide: Introduction to Updating LCP amendments. The IP will contain text and Implementation Plan (IP) Procedures, Appendix A, flow charts describing the procedures for the updated IP will address the following: processing LCP amendments. The Draft IP will incorporate all of the components ○○ Land uses and their densities and related outlined above. standards, consistent with your coastal land use plan provisions, typically in the form of 3.3. Draft IP Review by Commission Staff, zoning district regulations. This portion of Stakeholders the IP will identify and reference the existing zoning district regulations and standards AECOM will meet with Coastal Commission applicable to the LCP. Existing zoning district staff to review the Draft IP. We will also hold a standards will be reviewed to identify which stakeholder meeting to elicit feedback on draft LCP policies are addressed and where gaps development regulations prior to submittal of the occur, as noted above. Draft IP to the CCC for review and processing. ○○ Land use and density locations, typically Specifically, we would elicit stakeholder feedback in the form of zoning maps. AECOM will use on those elements of the development regulations existing City zoning information from GIS to where there is flexibility in how a given policy is develop a Zoning Map and table summarizing implemented. Stakeholders will also be invited to the implementing land uses and densities, attend the public workshop on the Draft IP. and identifying any recommended changes. 3.4. Joint Study Session 2 - IP ○○ Substantive and procedural standards to implement all coastal land use policies, such AECOM will present the Administrative/Review as those implementing the required public Draft IP to a joint study session with the City access component and those governing Council, Tidelands Advisory Committee, Design environmentally sensitive habitats, biology Review Board, and Parks & Recreation Commission.

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3.5. Public Workshop # 2 - IP Focus • What are the long term priorities for the community? For zoning ordinance updates, workshop attendees typically have very specific questions about how • What SRL adaptation strategies most align they might be affected by zoning changes. We with the community’s vision for the future? recommend an open house format with stations We anticipate many of the same themes that around the room to avoid grandstanding, including emerged in the City’s 2000 Vision Plan “Imperial a welcome station, a process/timeline station, a Beach: The Big Picture” will be reinforced and station presenting key elements or changes under expanded upon in public outreach efforts for this the IP, and then a few duplicate stations (ideally project. In addition, we would expand outreach with interactive GIS) for property owners. This efforts to include online public comment on the station would allow AECOM to answer questions Draft LUP and Draft IP. The AECOM team includes about how specific properties might be affected by outreach specialists fluent in Spanish to conduct updated ESHA, scenic and visual, coastal hazards, bilingual outreach as necessary. shoreline and protective devices, public access and recreation, etc. Pop-up outreach efforts could be held at community events and popular gathering locations, 3.6. Revise IP such as farmers markets, the Imperial Beach Pier, Update Draft IP per City and Coastal Commission and the Sun & Sea Festival to generate a buzz comments and prepare a Revised Draft IP. about the project and encourage people to attend future workshops and/or provide their input online, 3.7. Develop LUP/IP Tracking Spreadsheet including through social media.

AECOM will build upon the consistency checklist 4.1. Route Proposed LCP Amendment for prepared in Task 2.7 and the matrix prepared Agency/Public Review in Subtask 3.2.1 to identify the implementing regulations associated with each LUP policy. The draft LCP and associated environmental document, if needed, will be routed for agency and Task 3 - Outcome/Deliverables public review. Preparation and adoption of a LCP, or an amendment thereto, is statutorily exempt from • Administrative/Review Draft IP (in Word) the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) • Revised Draft IP (in Word) that responds to pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15265. The CCC staff suggested edits LCP process is exempt because the criteria under • LUP-IP tracking matrix/spreadsheet the Coastal Act are the functional equivalent of the EIR process. See Santa Barbara County Flower & Nursery Growers Association v. County of Task 4. Agency/Public Review Santa Barbara, 121 Cal. App. 4th 864, 872 (2004). However, General Plan updates/amendments are Innovative Outreach Tools not exempt from CEQA. In order to accomplish We recommend supplementing the public the City’s program goals without triggering the workshops identified in Tasks 2 and 3 with online need for traffic impact modeling and a CEQA and pop-up (as-needed) outreach. These methods document, AECOM will work closely with the City are particularly effective at communicating at the beginning of the work program to establish information to those that might not typically attend parameters for the environmental scope of work, a formal workshop. Online input could also be and extent of anticipated required environmental helpful in aligning the LCP with the community’s review. The General Plan amendments and CAP vision. To kick off general public input on the LCP, will be drafted to be self-mitigating to the extent we would propose to solicit public feedback to the 1 possible. For this task, AECOM is assuming that an following questions : environmental impact report will not be required.

• What do you value most about Imperial Beach today that you want to maintain into the future?

1 Questions adapted from the Imperial Beach Sea Level Rise Assessment Report 2016. Questions would be refined and made more specific for online input.

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4.2. Review and Prepare Responses to support the City in bringing the Local Coastal Comments Program LUP and Implementation Plan to a Coastal Commission hearing, in accordance with the AECOM will review public comments on the project timeline. AECOM will incorporate City staff proposed LCP and conduct additional research and public hearing comments in the Final LCP for based on public input, if needed. We will prepare submittal to the CCC. responses to comments for distribution. Responses may group similar comments under Task 5 - Outcome/Deliverables consolidated subject headings. • Staff Reports for up to two City Council 4.3. Incorporate Comments and Finalize LCP meetings; for Local Adoption • Final draft LCP update policy and implementation components AECOM will revise and update the draft LCP based on stakeholder input, and ensure consistency • Tidelands Advisory, Design Review, Parks with the Coastal Act. The final package brought & Recreation, City Council, and California forward for local adoption will be well-vetted Coastal Commission staff report packages; through the outreach process, and meet project • Submittal package for adopted LCP/GP, objectives to implement the Coastal Act as well as including the final environmental document local preferences. (per the RPF budget allocation, shown on page 12). Task 4 - Outcome/Deliverables • Agency/Public Comment Summary Report Task 6. Project Management • Environmental document Achieving a successful outcome to the LCP • Revised LCP drafts reflecting stakeholder update is dependent on expertise and strong input project management skills, and direct and frequent coordination and communication with City Staff. Task 5. Final LCP (LUP and IP) and The AECOM team will maintain a close working Certification relationship with the City’s project manager to 5.1. Steering Committee meeting structure and ensure a productive LCP Update process. This process requires clear, thoughtful, A Steering Committee meeting will be held to and measured communication of project progress review the final LCP prior to holding public hearings, and issues, and the ability to arrive at appropriate with the objective of obtaining a recommendation strategies that can best support City priorities. of support for plan approval. We recommend close communication with the internal steering committee and others during the 5.2. Locally Adopt Amendments to LCP Policy development of LUP policies. AECOM recommends (LUP) and Implementation (IP) Components weekly conference calls and at least monthly in- person meetings with the City’s project manager. AECOM team members have extensive public agency experience, including preparing for and Near the beginning of the work program, we presenting reports to advisory boards, Planning recommend that one of the in-person meetings Commissions, and City Council’s. AECOM will be in the form of a tour with key members of prepare staff reports and agenda packet materials the consultant team and City staff, focusing on for public hearings, and participate in hearings for the Coastal Zone, key transportation corridors, the LCP approval process. vulnerable neighborhoods previously identified, and potential opportunity areas within the City. 5.3. Submit LCP Update Policy and Implementation Components to Coastal Commission for Certification

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6.1. Coordination with Commission Staff

The AECOM team recommends attending quarterly meetings with CCC staff as part of the grant coordination process, supplemented with monthly check-ins as needed. This ongoing coordination will help the City secure LCP certification.

6.2. Contract Management and Billing

AECOM brings strong project management supported by accounting and quality assurance tools that are integrated into each of our projects. Scheduling systems at AECOM are designed to allocate resources to meet all agreed-upon client due dates, regardless of their timing or the number of deadlines within a given period. AECOM has successfully completed numerous complex projects with demanding schedules that required attentive project management, coordination, and communication.

As the project manager, Ms. Bragado will also coordinate with the City to set up and maintain an overall project schedule that identifies key milestones and linkages between milestones, such that the internal relationships between tasks are clearly understood. Regular reviews of the schedule will be conducted to ensure there are no unexpected delays and to look for ways to adjust efforts, if needed.

AECOM uses a project cost accounting system designed specifically for environmental and planning consulting firms, and can generate invoices that distinguish between grant-funded and non-grant funded tasks. Each project manager reviews and updates their project plans and budgets on a monthly basis and project reports are submitted for project director review and approval.

The system has contributed to AECOM’s reputation for consistently completing projects within budget. AECOM strives to understand the client’s objectives in terms of quality and time, and how project components dovetail into the overall project schedule.

Task 6 Outcome/Deliverables • Quarterly reports • Progress reports to Commission staff

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III. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

AECOM is a southern California headquartered, global full-service consultancy, whose mission is to build a better world. With offices in San Diego, AECOM has worked on projects throughout the region, supplying detailed planning, design, and sustainability services to jurisdictions of all sizes.

AECOM has a long history of delivering innovative planning documents that are applicable to this project such as general and community plans, zoning plans and amendments, port master plans, downtown and transit-oriented development strategies, and environmental documents among others. Our team has prepared numerous technically acclaimed Local Coastal Programs (LCPs) under compressed timelines that address the unique circumstances of their individual communities. This includes successful and timely completion of CEQA documents.

We also have extensive experience with climate adaptation and mitigation, planning and implementation. Since 2007 AECOM has prepared or contributed to over 50 climate mitigation and Summit Environmental Group will apply their adaptation projects. And AECOM is the coastal planning and regulatory experience to the recognized leader statewide in sea level rise risk LCP and IP to ensure efficient and effective and vulnerability assessment with completed engagement with the Coastal Commission and projects in San Diego, Los Angeles, Long Beach, final planning documents that meet regulatory and San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Solano County, policy standards and requirements, including and San Jose at citywide and countywide scales. those pertinent to Coastal Act compliance. Finally, we have coastal experience in a variety of additional projects such as beach replenishment, With their transportation and mobility background natural resource preservation and enhancement, Chen Ryan Associates will review and draft and infrastructure and transportation planning. mobility policy language to address Complete Streets, active transportation, and Vehicle Miles Our team is made stronger with the addition of Travelled (VMT) and greenhouse gas (GHG) both Summit Environmental Group and Chen Ryan reductions as well as develop materials to put Associates. Summit Environmental Group has Imperial Beach on a competitive footing for related broad and deep experience in coastal policy, grants. regulation, and effective engagement with the Coastal Commission, while Chen Ryan Associates Our proposed project team, as further outlined in has expertise in numerous aspects of multi-modal part IV of this proposal, is multi-disciplinary, transportation planning and sustainability experienced, and has a track record of success. including complete streets and active Additionally, AECOM, Summit Environmental, and transportation, transit-oriented neighborhoods, Chen Ryan Associates have a history of working and greenhouse gas reduction. together efficiently to deliver high-quality and on-schedule projects.

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Experience Where it Counts CAP Experience San Diego County Water Authority, Climate The AECOM Team Along the San Diego Action Plan, EIR and Annual Report, San Diego Coastline County, CA

In the table below, we provide a sampling of our City of Santa Ana, Climate Action Plan CEQA team’s Local Coastal Program, sea level rise, Analysis, Orange County, CA general and community, zoning, climate County of San Diego, Climate Action Plan and mitigation and adaptation planning and other CEQA GHG Threshold Guidelines, San Diego experience along the San Diego coastline and County, CA beyond. City of La Mesa GHG Inventory, CAP, and General Plan EIR, LA Mesa, CA City of Mountain view, Mountain View LCP Experience Greenhous Gas Reduction Plan, Santa Clara San Dieguito LCP, LUP, and IP, San Diego County, CA County, CA PLaNYC GHG Mitigation Study & Economic Solana Beach LCP, Solana Beach, CA Assessment Local Coastal Program Grant Fee Study Sea Level Rise Experience Project, Solana Beach, CA Transportation Vulnerability and Risk City of Imperial Beach General Plan/Local Coastal Assessment and Climate Change Adaptation Program Amendments, Imperial Beach, CA Pilot Project (Adapting to Rising Tides), Alameda County, CA California Coastal Commission LCP Planning Grant Project Port of Long Beach Climate Adaptation and Coastal Resiliency Plan, Long Beach, CA Planning Experience Regional Transit-Oriented Development, Solano County Sea Level Rise Strategic Strategy and Readiness Toolkit, San Diego Program County, CA Other Coastal Experience Strategic Assessment of Implementation Port of San Diego Master Plan Update, San Strategies and Best Practices Options, Los Diego, CA Angeles, CA Coastal Storm Damage Reduction Project, City of Imperial Beach Commercial/Mixed-Use Encinitas-Solana Beach, CA Zoning Amendments, General Plan/Local City of Encinitas/City of Solana Beach, Shoreline Coastal Plan Amendments, and EIR, Imperial Beach Replenishment Project EIR/EIS, San Diego Beach, CA County, CA Palm Avenue Revitalization Plan, City of San Buena Vista Lagoon Enhancement Project EIR Diego, CA Carlsbad Corridor Realignment Project City of San Diego General Plan South Gate Comprehensive Zoning Code Update City of San Marcos Zoning Ordinance Update Sacramento County Development Code & Design Guidelines

*A Sampling of the AECOM Team's Collective Experience in LCP, Planning, CAP, Sea Level Rise, and other Local Coastal Programs

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Port of San Diego Master Plan Update (Draft) San Diego, CA

Client Project Manager: Jason Giffen (Assistant Vice-President) [email protected]; 619-686-6473 AECOM Team Member(s): Yara Fisher, Patty Anders, Bill Anderson

AECOM Team Project Manager Contact Info: Yara Fisher; [email protected]; 619-610-7794 uses as well as Baywide and Planning District Award Date: Dec. 2015 Completion Date: Aug. 2017 level policies to increase coastal access and recreation opportunities consistent with the AECOM’s team of community planners, District’s goals. A unique aspect of this effort economists, urban designers, coastal policy was developing a dynamic model to plan and planners, and mobility specialists worked on evaluate scenarios within each of the ten a comprehensive update to the Port’s Master Planning Districts. Plan. This work program builds upon an Key Features extensive stakeholder and strategic visioning process with the intent of developing a modern, • Land Use Plan update streamlined Port Master Plan document to • Climate change strategy & tools meet Coastal Act requirements as well as • Knowledge of statewide policies facilitate future project implementation. The • Community engagement updated Plan includes refined land and water

San Dieguito LCP, LUP, and IP San Diego County, CA

Client Project Manager: Noah Alvey, Land Use Planner, San Diego County, [email protected]; 858-964-8846

AECOM Team Member(s): Yara Fisher

AECOM Team Project Manager Contact Info: Yara Fisher; [email protected]; 619-610-7794 Award Date: Jan. 2016 Completion Date: Jun. 2017 public access and recreation, scenic/visual resources, archaeological/paleontological AECOM’s team of coastal and resiliency planners resources, water quality, agricultural resources, updated the existing 2011 LCP in conformance sensitive habitats, climate change, hazards, and with the California Coastal Act to reflect current steep slopes. Concurrently, AECOM also worked circumstances and new scientific information, closely with County staff to develop the including new understandings and concern for Implementation Plan for the LUP. the effects of climate change and sea-level rise. Key Features The project included analysis of the portion of the unincorporated County located within the • Land Use Plan update Coastal Zone (CZ) and the development of related • Climate change strategy & tools policy for: land use and development standards, • Knowledge of statewide policies

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Transportation Vulnerability and Risk Assessment & Climate Change Adaptation Pilot Project (Adapting to Rising Tides) Alameda County, CA

Client Project Manager: Wendy Goodfriend, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), 415-352-3646

AECOM Team Member(s): Claire Bonham-Carter; Justin Vandever Touchdown, Oakland Coliseum, and Hayward AECOM Team Project Manager Contact Info: Shoreline. Based on the results of the Claire Bonham-Carter; [email protected]; vulnerability assessment, AECOM developed a 415-955-2985 suite of adaptation strategies addressing the physical, informational, and governance-related Award Date: Feb. 2011 Completion Date: Dec. 2012 vulnerabilities of the selected assets. Physical strategies included conceptual designs for living The San Francisco Bay Area’s transportation levees and an offshore breakwater. Informational sector is expected to be impacted by sea level strategies included guidelines for conducting a rise, coastal storm surge, and extreme drainage study to address the joint issues of sea precipitation events by mid-century. To address level rise and increased precipitation storm climate-related impacts, the Metropolitan intensity for an area with complex drainage Transportation Commission (MTC), BCDC, patters and backwater flooding issues. Lastly, California Department of Transportation, District governance strategies included guidance on 4 (Caltrans) and San Francisco Bay Area Rapid mainstreaming climate change considerations Transit District (BART) partnered on two into transportation agency planning and collaborative subregional pilot projects. processes. AECOM led two pilot projects in Alameda County The work completed in support of the FHWA- that support BCDC’s larger Adapting to Rising funded pilots is being leveraged by the cities of Tides (ART) project, with a goal of increasing the Oakland and Berkeley in support of the preparedness and resilience of Bay Area Rockefeller Foundation 100-Resilient Cities communities to sea level rise and other climate program. The methodologies and framework are change-related impacts. AECOM, in collaboration also being used to support a similar project for with the MTC, Caltrans District 4, BART, and Caltrans in northern San Francisco Bay for BCDC, tested the conceptual climate change risk Highway 37 – the most low-lying and vulnerable assessment model developed by the Federal state transportation route in the larger Bay Area. High way Administration (FHWA) to assess Key Features climate change-related risks to transportation infrastructure. This was one of only five pilots • Land use plan across the U.S. testing this model. The lessons • Climate change strategy & tools learned from this effort helped to inform the • Knowledge of statewide policies second wave of FHWA-funded pilot studies. The initial pilot identified representative transportation assets at risk to sea level rise and storm surge. In the follow-on pilot project, AECOM conducted a detailed vulnerability assessment for transportation assets in three focus areas in Alameda County - the Bay Bridge

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Solana Beach Local Coastal Program Solana Beach, CA

Client Project Manager: Bill Chopyk, AICP, Community Development Director, City of Solana Beach, 858-720-2400

AECOM Team Member(s): Leslea Meyerhoff

AECOM Team Project Manager Contact Info: Leslea Meyerhoff; [email protected]; 760-804-9144

Award Date: Feb. 2015 Completion Date: Ongoing

Ms. Meyerhoff, founder and principal of Summit, is the City of Solana Beach’s Local Coastal Program manager and was responsible for preparing the City’s first Local Costal Program (LCP) Land Use Plan (LUP) in compliance with the California Coastal Act. This effort involved significant collaboration with key stakeholders including property owners, City Staff, Coastal Commission Staff and NGO’s. The City’s LUP was adopted by the City Council in 2013 after approval by the California Coastal Commission. Ms. Meyerhoff also managed the process to amend the LUP (LUPA) in 2014 and is managing a second LUP amendment submitted in April 2016. Current work efforts involve the development of the LCP Local Implementation Plan (LIP) and related changes to the City’s existing Municipal Code to reflect adopted LUP policies. The entire City is located with the Coastal Zone and therefore both the LUP as well as the LIP are applicable citywide.

Key Features

• Land use plan

• Knowledge of statewide policies

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Regional Transit-Oriented Development, Strategy and Readiness Toolkit San Diego, CA

Client Project Manager: Colleen Clemenson, Principal Planner, SANDAG, [email protected], 619-699-1944

AECOM Team Member(s): Yara Fisher

AECOM Team Project Manager Contact Info: Yara Fisher; [email protected]; 619-610-7794

Award Date: Feb. 2014 Completion Date: Dec. 2015 As part of the Regional TOD Strategy, AECOM was been responsible for developing the AECOM led the development of a Regional following work products: Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy to create and enhance communities and P Context Report (Draft): This report was employment centers near transit in the San Diego prepared to describe SANDAG’s related plans region. The Regional TOD Strategy was accepted and policies and the existing context of TOD in for inclusion as part of San Diego Forward: The the San Diego region. It includes a description of Regional Plan by the SANDAG Board of Directors how regional population, housing, and on September 25, 2015. San Diego Forward was employment growth trends are shaping adopted by the SANDAG Board on October 9, opportunities for TOD in the San Diego region. 2015. AECOM worked closely with SANDAG to prepare a quantitative analysis of the regional transit The Regional TOD Strategy identifies how system, to model accessibility to transit stations residential and commercial development projects by foot, bike, and car, and to estimate the existing can help meet the region’s projected population and future population and employment around and employment growth. It provides a broader each transit station. The context report also look at SANDAG’s Smart Growth Concept Map identifies example TOD projects in the San Diego and place type definitions and offers a set of Region. implementation actions to realize the vision of healthier, sustainable communities. P TOD Implementation Forum and Focus Groups: AECOM led the public outreach for the Regional One of the key ideas that emerged through TOD Strategy. During the Forum, AECOM leaders AECOM’s work on the Regional TOD Strategy is with extensive experience in TOD from that “TOD” is more than a collection of individual throughout the United States provided examples buildings near a transit station. Instead, “Transit of best-practices, lessons learned, and identified Oriented Communities” are places with tools to overcome barriers to implementing TOD. concentrated residential, commercial, and Forum attendees included participants from mixed-use development served by high-quality many jurisdictions in the San Diego region, transit. Transit-oriented communities provide representatives from MTS and NCTD, transportation choices that allow people to drive community-based organizations, and others. less, walk, ride bicycles, and take transit more. AECOM also led a series of focus groups Expanding the area typically considered as “TOD” organized to understand and get input on issues can also increase the potential for development related to transit, access to employment, and by expanding the range of building types that can other issues affecting the implementation of contribute to the area. TOD.

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Regional Transit-Oriented Development, Strategy and Readiness Toolkit (continued)

P White Papers: AECOM led the preparation of • Focus on implementation white papers that focus on key issues related to • Integrated with San Diego Forward: The the implementation of TOD in the San Diego Regional Plan region. The White Papers provided an overview of how the issue was a barrier or opportunity to TOD implementation. White Paper topics included:

• Urban Form, Density, and Land Use Regulation • Connections: Active Transportation and Mobility Management • Affordable Housing and Housing Choices • Infrastructure and Community Facilities • CEQA: Streamlining (SB 375) and Travel Forecasting (SB 743) • Readiness Criteria: Metrics for TOD in the San Diego TOD Readiness Model: After completing the Regional TOD Strategy, AECOM has begun preparing a TOD readiness model for SANDAG. The readiness model will build upon the Regional TOD Strategy by developing a user friendly decision support tool. SANDAG and stakeholders will be able to use TOD readiness criteria and available GIS information to adjust and calibrate weightages and priorities to generate TOD Readiness Index scores at the parcel level and then visualize and analyze sites and patterns using a publicly accessible web interface.

Key Features

• Linking smart growth and economic development • District approach to TOD

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projects and public facilities. Yara Fisher has City of La Mesa GHG played a leading role in this project. Inventory, CAP, and General Plan EIR La Mesa, CA

Client Project Manager: Howard Lee, Associate Planner, City of La Mesa, [email protected], 619-667-1185

AECOM Team Member(s): Yara Fisher

AECOM Team Project Manager Contact Info: Yara Fisher; [email protected] 619-610-7794

Award Date: Nov. 2015 Completion Date: Dec. 2016

As a follow on to the City’s General Plan Update, AECOM was selected to implement one of the programs from the General Plan – a CAP designed to reduce household transportation costs, take advantage of incentives for energy efficiency improvements, provide CEQA streamlining, as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions consistent with state mandates. AECOM provided a technical review of the City’s 2010 emissions inventory prepared by EPIC at the University of San Diego. We then developed future year emissions forecasts based on SANDAG regional growth estimates, including VMT forecasts from the regional traffic model and demographic growth projections. Based on the results of this analysis, we helped City staff to define a set of GHG reduction strategies that would be locally implementable and politically feasible. Following a presentation of initial CAP results to the Planning Commission, AECOM assisted the City in designing and implementing a community outreach event to solicit additional community input on the selected reduction strategies and implementation programs. Through this event, more than 200 participants provided their comments on the City’s climate planning efforts. Currently AECOM is leading a new phase of work on this climate action plan to develop a new longer- term reduction target and identify emission reduction strategies that would be necessary to achieve a 2035 rather than 2020 target. In addition to the climate action plan, the City has relied on the AECOM team for nimble, efficient, responsive, and high quality environmental technical work to support decision making and findings on new development

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Development of the Plan also involved a robust Palm Avenue community input process and engagement with Revitalization Plan public agencies such as the City of San Diego. City of San Diego, CA Collectively this project provides a robust roadmap for the City of San Diego to make progress towards a revitalized corridor and Client Project Manager: effectively compete for state and federal grants Nancy Graham, Senior Planner, City of San Diego, to augment local and regional funding. 619-236-6891

AECOM Team Member(s): Christine Babla

AECOM Team Project Manager Contact Info: Christine Babla; [email protected] 619-610-7705 Award Date: Mar. 2015 Completion Date: Jul. 2016

The Palm Avenue Revitalization Plan was funded through a grant from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The grant was awarded through the FY 2013-14 Environmental Justice Transportation Planning Grant Award. AECOM’s team led an effort to establish strategies for the evolution of Palm Avenue into a walkable, pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use corridor, and a complete street. Given that the Palm Avenue corridor is a Caltrans facility, it has been built to state design standards, which limits the strategies the City of San Diego can use to help facilitate the implementation of a more complete street. Ultimately, the strategies presented in the Plan build upon many of the City of San Diego’s existing plans and policies, as well as Caltrans “Main Streets” guidance, and integrates those of the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), and the City of Imperial Beach’s Palm Avenue Mixed Use & Commercial Corridor Master Plan (2012).

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As the City’s Deputy Planning Director, she City of San Diego General Plan oversaw preparation of comprehensive updates and Community Plan Updates to 14 community plans, of which ten have San Diego, CA been adopted to date, including the Ocean Beach Community Plan and LCP. Through her General Plan and community plan update work, Client Project Manager: she has a working knowledge of California’s Tom Tomlinson, City of San Diego General Plan requirements including: Complete 619-206-9151 Streets, SB 743 Transit-Oriented Development AECOM Team Member(s): and CEQ A issues; sustainability and transit Nancy Bragado (Prior to AECOM) oriented development; climate mitigation and adaptation planning; complete streets and AECOM Team Project Manager Contact Info: Nancy Bragado ; [email protected] active transportation; healthy communities; fire 619-610-7739 hazard planning; and economic development and environmental justice. Nancy has a Award Date: N/A Completion Date: N/A demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary high-performing teams, identify key issues, produce innovative plans, and develop creative • Community plan updates followed GPU, for solutions to controversial issues. Through communities of diverse scale and character her nearly 30-year municipal career she • Scopes of work comparable to general plans understands how local governments operate of smaller cities and has extensive interacting with community • Furthers the smart growth strategy set forth leaders, planning commissioners, and city in San Diego’s General Plan council members. • Plans address climate change mitigation and resiliency • Plans are implementation-oriented, including zoning and incentive programs • Program Environmental Impact Reports allow for future project streamlining

The City of San Diego completed a comprehensive update of its General Plan in 2008, then initiated a work program to begin updating community plans covering 52 planning areas. The City of San Diego uses community plans as components of its General Plan due to the City’s size (343 square miles) and population (1.3 million). San Diego’s community planning areas are diverse in character and scale, including older walkable neighborhoods, master planned suburban communities, and subregional employment centers with high residential densities.

Nancy Bragado, our proposed Principal- In-Charge, was the Project Manager for San Diego’s General Plan Update, which was the recipient of the American Planning Association’s 2010 Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan. Following General Plan adoption, Nancy played a key role in shaping the City’s community plan update program.

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City of San Diego Climate Action Plan San Diego, CA

Client Project Manager: Brian Schoenfisch, City of San Diego 619-533-6457 AECOM Team Member(s): Nancy Bragado (Prior to AECOM)

AECOM Team Project Manager Contact Info: Nancy Bragado ; [email protected] 619-610-7739

Award Date: N/A Completion Date: N/A

The City of San Diego’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) is a blueprint to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets and resiliency to climate change impacts. The CAP was unanimously adopted by the San Diego City Council in December 2015. It established five strategies to achieve GHG reduction targets for 2020 and 2035 from a 2010 baseline: 1) Energy& Water Efficient Buildings, 2) Clean & Renewable Energy, 3) Bicycling, Walking, Transit & Land Use, 4) Zero Waste (Gas & Waste Management), and 5) Climate Resiliency. The CAP was drafted to fit within a broader framework of sustainability, to further environmental, economic and equity goals.

As the City of San Diego’s Deputy Planning Director, Nancy Bragado was was a critical policy leader working with the Mayor ’s office to develop the CAP. She supervised the Project Manager, and participated in multiple working group sessions with other City departments and consultants, including the Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC), and Krout Associates. Following CAP adoption, Nancy was integrally involved in implementing the land use component through long-range planning efforts.

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At AECOM, we believe in bringing our best to the Deputy Planning Director for the City of San support every project. For the City of Imperial Diego. In that capacity she managed the city’s 29 Beach Local Coastal Program (LCP) General Plan member Long-Range Planning Division. She Update, we have assembled a highly qualified provided oversight and policy direction for the team of professionals and technical specialists General Plan and community plan update consisting of local and statewide staff, with program, equivalent to an LCP Land Use Plan, as integrated services in planning and zoning, well as other planning initiatives. Under her climate adaptation and mitigation, coastal policy leadership: and engineering, sea level rise, data management, conservation of ecological • Five community plans were adopted, resources and public access, and public including the Ocean Beach Community engagement. Our team combines this issue area Plan and LCP expertise with a history of local understanding • Four community plans received Planning and engagement on the local and regional level. Commission approval within a three-year time period Below are brief biographies of our key personnel, • Multiple grant-funded projects were grouped according to unique benefits they offer successfully carried out the City of Imperial Beach. • Several master plans to implement transit- oriented development, sustainability, active Nancy Bragado Project Manager transportation, and urban greening goals were completed Nancy brings 30 years of local Ms. Bragado’s successful municipal career government planning experience makes her sensitive to the City’s challenges and to the City, including General Plan, bottom line. Further, she is adept at aligning LCPs Local Coastal Program, sea level with long-range planning initiatives, and she will rise, and climate resiliency provide for an LCP that is implementable. planning work. Prior to joining AECOM, Ms. Bragado served as

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Long Beach, the County of Santa Clara, and the Yara Fisher Principal-in-Charge Capital Regional District in British Columbia. Claire manages AECOM’s partnership with the Yara Fisher has led teams Carbon Disclosure Project’s Global Cities developing comprehensive plans Program, and the Rockefeller Foundation 100 and environmental documents for Resilient Cities Program. a variety of local, regional, and private clients, with a focus on strategic and sustainable infill Ryan Wiggings Deputy Project Manager development within redevelopment project areas and the coastal Over the last 10 years Ryan has zone. Her experience ranges from general plans, worked extensively on federal, LCPs/LUPs, zoning ordinances, specific plans, state, and regional sustainability housing elements, and climate action plans/ policy, legislation, implementation, strategies to environmental documentation and and economic development. This climate change mitigation strategies. includes working with state agencies to establish specific She recently led the County of San Diego’s San grant and funding programs within the state’s Dieguito LCP, LUP, and IP Project, similar in scope cap-and-trade program. He has also worked with to Imperial Beach’s LCP/LUP Update and will local agencies and private stakeholders to bring this experience to bear. establish sustainability grant and funding programs and prepare applications that have Ms. Fisher’s leadership on local LCP and resulted in millions of dollars in grants for Implementation Plan projects makes her development of sustainable transit-oriented invaluable for overseeing, advising, and preparing development in communities throughout the the project team to resolve even the most state. He is currently working on a variety of unexpected challenges. projects that combine economic development and sustainability such as the Port of San Diego Claire Bonham-Carter Senior Advisor Master Plan Update and the Kearny Mesa Community Plan Update. Over the course of his different projects and experience Ryan has Claire is a Principal with AECOM successfully managed and directed the work of with 19 years of experience interdisciplinary teams to produce products that working on climate change address the critical sustainability issues planning and sustainable design agencies and partners face. and construction / sustainability strategy projects for a range of Patty Anders Land Use Plan public and private sector clients. Her experience spans policy planning for municipalities, as well as sustainability Patty Anders has more than 16 frameworks and feasibility studies for new and years of experience in land use existing mixed-use communities to minimize and environmental planning and impact from an environmental, social, and zoning, including along the San economic perspective. Diego coastline. Working in both the public and private sectors, She has worked on climate mitigation plans for a she has worked on current and number of U.S. cities including Seattle, Baltimore, advance planning projects, and zoning and New York, as well as many of the smaller ordinances, Specific Plan, General Plan, and LCP California cities and counties referenced in the updates. experience section. She also specializes in climate vulnerability and risk assessments and Having worked directly for the City of Encinitas, adaptation plans with a focus on transportation Ms. Anders understands the issues unique to with projects completed or underway for the San coastal communities including preservation of Francisco Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation the coast; public views and access; water quality; Commission, Los Angeles Metro, the Port of sand replenishment programs; coastal bluff

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preservation and restoration; and appropriate Ms. Meyerhoff is a certified land use and location, type, and intensity of development in coastal planner with more than 20 years of compliance with the California Coastal Act and professional experience as a CEQA practitioner certified LCP. and environmental planning and regulatory specialist, representing a variety of public Ms. Anders’ breadth of municipal planning and agencies throughout California, including the code experience combined with her policy Coastal Commission. Ms. Meyerhoff has managed planning experience will allow her to assist the the development of coastal programs, primarily City of Imperial Beach to comprehensively and infrastructure projects, including shoreline efficiently develop regulatory and policy protection and beach restoration projects, as well documents that are user friendly and streamlined as master planned communities. for both staff and the community. Having spent the majority of her career as a planning and environmental consultant and, Monique Chen Mobility/Transportation Lead early on, as a legislative aide for state and local Ms. Chen has over 18 years of experience officials on land use and environmental policy providing engineering and planning services development, Ms. Meyerhoff’s approach is to to the transportation industry, including both function as an extention of public agency staff to public and private sector clients. As a registered help lead the path to compliance, while serving traffic engineer, she has clients like the City of Imperial Beach’s best been responsible for project interests. management on numerous projects ranging from general Jason Paukovits CAP Lead plans, master plans, specific plans, mobility studies, corridor Jason Paukovits is an studies, transportation impact environmental analyst with over analysis, operational and demand 14 years experience including assessments to conceptual engineering. Specific work on Climate Action Plans, areas of experience and expertise include greenhouse gas inventories, and traffic engineering and operations, local and air quality and energy analysis. His regional transportation planning, smart growth climate work ranges from large planning, multimodal planning, development scale planning and implementation for agencies of specifications and cost estimates, and such as the Los Angeles County Metropolitan traffic impact studies. Monique has served as Transportation Authority to mid- and smaller- the Project Manager for several planning and scale projects such as the City of Santa Ana and engineering projects, such as the Downtown San the City of Mountain View. In addition to working Diego Mobility Plan, the National City General Plan with AECOM Jason has experience as a Mobility Element Update, and the County of San government employee managing transportation, Diego Mobility Element Update. air quality, and greenhouse gas policies and plans including the 2007 Regional Transportation Plan and Environmental Impact Report for Fresno Leslea Meyerhoff Coastal Policy County and the Congestion Mitigation and Air Leslea Meyerhoff has more than Quality grant program. 23 years of experience, primarily on projects located within the coastal zone, working for public agencies as an extension of staff. She has managed large multi-disciplinary teams of professionals on coastal and land use planning projects, and was the program manager for the City of Solana Beach Local Coastal Program and Land Use Plan and seven projects in Carlsbad, many in the Coastal Zone.

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The following table, lists the project personnel Organizational Chart, under “Section V” for more that will provide this support and expertise as project team details. needed. Please see the project team resumes in the following pages of this section, as well as the

LIST OF PROJECT PERSONNEL

Personnel Name Firm Project Role

Nancy Bragado AECOM Project Manager

Yara Fisher, AICP AECOM PIC

Claire Bonham-Carter, LEED AP AECOM Senior Advisor

Ryan Wiggins AECOM Deputy Project Manager

Darryl Hatheway AECOM Sea Level Rise Adaptation

Justin Vandever AECOM Sea Level Rise Adaptation

Aaron MacGregor AECOM Cost-Benefit Analysis

Jason Paukovits AECOM CAP

Paola Peña AECOM CAP

Krista Ellis, AEP AECOM Environmental Specialist

Patty Anders AECOM General Plan/Local Coastal Plan

Leslea Meyerhoff, AICP Summit Environmental Group* General Plan/Local Coastal Plan

Monique Chen, P.E. Chen Ryan Associates* GP Mobility Element

Andrew Prescott Chen Ryan Associates GP Mobility Element

Jane Fidman, LEED AP AECOM Public Engagement

Jessica Sisco, AICP, IAP2 AECOM Public Engagement

Christine Babla, AIA, AICP, LEED AP AECOM Implementation Plan

* Sub-consultants

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Nancy Bragado Project Manager

Firm Prior to joining AECOM, Ms. Bragado served as the Deputy AECOM Planning Director for the City of San Diego. In that capacity she managed the city’s 29 member Long-Range Planning Division. She Education provided oversight and policy direction for the community plan MPA, San Diego State University, update program, General Plan, and other planning initiatives. In 1990 the City of San Diego, community plans serve as the Local Coastal BA, Environmental Studies, Program Land Use Plan. Under her leadership five community University of California, Santa plans were adopted, including the Ocean Beach Community Barbara, 1984 Plan and Local Coastal Program, and an additional four received Professional Affiliations Planning Commission approval within a 3 year time period. She American Planning Association was responsible for long-range planning grant-funded projects, Local Government Commission including the Palm Avenue Revitalization Plan, and helped guide the completion of multiple plans to implement transit-oriented Years of Experience development, sustainability, active transportation, and urban 30 greening goals. References Ms. Bragado’s climate planning experience includes providing City of San Diego* management oversight and policy guidance for the City of San Climate Action Plan Diego’s Climate Action Plan. She also served as a lead author of Brian Schoenfisch, Principal the urban and infrastructure chapter of the Third National Climate Planner Assessment: Climate Change Impacts in the United States, on the [email protected] Steering Committee for the Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategy for 619-533-6457 San Diego Bay report, prepared by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, and was a member of the Technical Advisory Group for the San Diego Regional Vulnerability Assessment Report. In City of San Diego* addition, she represented the Planning Department at the San Community Plan Updates and Diego Climate Collaborative. grant projects Tom Tomlinson, Assistant In her role as Principal Planner with the City of San Diego, Ms. Planning Director Bragado managed the city’s comprehensive General Plan update, [email protected] which received the American Planning Association’s 2010 Daniel 619-533-3187 Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan. The General Plan has a strong sustainability focus and features the City of Villages strategy to focus future development into compact, walkable, *Prior to joining AECOM mixed-use centers that are linked by transit. After General Plan adoption she was responsible for General Plan implementation and monitoring, regional planning coordination and grant projects. Through her General Plan and community planning work, she has a working knowledge of California General Plan requirements including: SB 743 Transit-Oriented Development and CEQ A issues; sustainability and transit oriented development; climate mitigation and adaptation planning; complete streets and active transportation; healthy communities; hazard planning; and economic development and equity.

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Nancy Bragado (continued)

Ms. Bragado has a demonstrated ability to Additional projects with the City of San Diego lead multi-disciplinary high-performing teams, include: identify key issues, produce innovative plans, and develop creative solutions to controversial • Collaboration with public health officials issues. She worked with City of San Diego staff regarding active living, childhood obesity, and and the Mayor’s office to develop a data-driven healthy communities community plan update prioritization system • Secured a Healthy Communities grant and to more effectively serve communities in need, managed urban agriculture policy and code and conducted feedback sessions with staff amendments and consultants to develop and implement • Responsible for preparation of the General community plan update “lessons learned,” to Plan Monitoring Report achieve content and process improvements to the plan update program. She has extensive • Oversight of General Plan Action Plan experience preparing and presenting reports • Project manager for development of Transit- to the Planning Commission, City Council, and Oriented Development Design (TOD) community groups. Nancy represented the Guidelines, including consultant contract Planning Department at Planning Commission management hearings, San Diego Association of Governments planning director/manager meetings, and at • Led multi-disciplinary staff team in Community Planners Committee (a group development of commercial mixed use zones comprised of 41 community leaders) meetings. as a part of the city’s Land Development Code update. Created new zones designed to implement the TOD Guidelines. PROJECT EXPERIENCE Metropolitan Transit Development Board City of San Diego, Climate Action Plan, San (MTDB)/City of San Diego Liaison Diego, CA: Core policy team member and supervised project manager. • Advised the agency on transit-land use coordination issues affecting major programs City of San Diego Community Plan Update • Issued requests for qualifications/proposals Program, San Diego, CA: Provide oversight and managed consultant contract regarding for comprehensive updates to 14 community transit-joint development planning areas; ten have been adopted to date • Reviewed and commented on long range City of San Diego General Plan Update, San plans and development projects from the City Diego, CA: Project Manager responsible for a of San Diego and other jurisdictions comprehensive General Plan Update and EIR. • Co-authored a Local Government Commission handbook, “Building Livable City of San Diego Grant Program, SAn Diego, Communities, A Policymaker’s Guide to Infill CA: Oversaw 27 grant-funded projects with a Development,” 1995 with 2001 update value totaling over $16 million in awarded fund in • Presented on transit joint development FY 16 in several cities as a part of a nation-wide workshop series conducted by the Federal Transit Administration/American Public Transportation Association

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Yara Fisher, AICP Principal-in-Charge

Firm Yara Fisher has led teams developing comprehensive plans and AECOM environmental documents for a variety of local, regional, and private clients. Many of these projects have focused on strategic Education and sustainable infill development within redevelopment project MUP, Urban and Regional areas and the coastal zone. Her experience ranges from general Planning, University of California plans, LCPs/LUPs, zoning ordinances, specific plans, housing - Irvine, 1998 elements, and climate action plans/strategies to environmental BA, Political Science, University documentation and climate change mitigation strategies for a of California - San Diego, 1995 variety of private, local, and regional planning projects. Her environmental experience includes the preparation and Registrations/Certifications management of program- and project-level environmental impact Certified Planner reports, mitigated negative declarations, and other documents required under CEQA. Professional Affiliations American Institute of Certified PROJECT EXPERIENCE Planners American Planning Association Port of San Diego Master Plan Update, San Diego, CA: Project Women’s Environmental Council Manager for the recently initiated Port Master Plan update. Ms. Fisher is leading a team of community planners, economists, Years of Experience urban designers, coastal policy planners, and mobility experts to 17 comprehensively update the Port’s Master Plan. This work program builds upon an extensive stakeholder and strategic References visioning process with the intent of developing a modern, Coleen Clemenson, Principal streamlined Port Master Plan document to meet Coastal Act Planner, SANDAG requirements as well as facilitate future project implementation. [email protected] The updated Plan includes refined land and water uses as well as 619-699-1944 Baywide and District-level policies to increase coastal access and recreation opportunities consistent with the District’s goals. A unique aspect of this effort was developing a dynamic model to Vickie White, Senior Planner plan and evaluate scenarios within each of the Districts ten City of San Diego Planning Districts. [email protected] 619-533-3945 County of San Diego San Dieguito LCP, LUP, and IP, San Diego, CA: Project Director for the San Dieguito Local Coastal Program, Land Use Plan, and Implementation Plan for the County of San Diego. With this effort, Ms. Fisher oversaw a team of coastal and resiliency planners to update the existing 2011 LCP in conformance with the California Coastal Act to reflect current circumstances and new scientific information, including new understandings and concern for the effects of climate change and sea-level rise. The project included analysis of the portion of the unincorporated County located within the Coastal Zone (CZ) and the development of related policy for: land use and development standards, public access and recreation, scenic/visual resources, archaeological/paleontological resources, water quality,

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Yara Fisher, AICP (continued)

agricultural resources, sensitive habitats, climate updates to the Old Town and Midway Community change, hazards, and steep slopes. Concurrently, Plans. In the heart of San Diego, these AECOM also worked closely with County staff to Community Plan areas include regional develop the Implementation Plan for the LUP. destinations such as Lindbergh Field, Old Town Historic State Park, and the Sports Arena. City of La Mesa GHG Inventory, CAP, and Existing and future transportation and transit General Plan EIR, La Mesa, CA: Project Manager planning, creating linkages to historic resources for collaborative shared work approach with City and open spaces, and balancing regional needs staff preparing an updated GHG inventory, CAP, with those who live and work in the areas are key and Program EIR for their Centennial General considerations in the updates of these Plan. The work program included an update to Community Plan areas. The team for the the previously prepared International Council for Community Plan updates and EIR included a Local Government Initiatives (ICLEI) GHG multi-disciplinary group of outreach specialists, inventory, making refinements to the municipal urban designers, sustainability planners, land operations assumptions as well as addressing planners, historic designers, mobility experts, community wide emissions generated by and environmental resource specialists. The vehicular traffic, energy, and water use. The marriage of these specialties afforded a inventory was used to refine General Plan comprehensive approach to planning and policies related to the City’s sustainability goals environmental review for these two important as well as support the GHG emissions analysis areas of San Diego. within the Program EIR. Following adoption of the General Plan, Ms. Fisher as Project Director, City of Santa Ana Climate Action Plan and EIR, assisted the team with development of the City’s Santa Ana, CA: California Project Manager for first CAP. Santa Ana Climate Action Plan and EIR. As part of this effort, Ms. Fisher, in collaboration with ICLEI, City of San Marcos, General Plan, Zoning assisted the City of Santa Ana in preparing their Ordinance, and Program EIR, San Marcos, CA: first Climate Action Plan. As part of this process, As project manager, Ms. Fisher led a team of Ms. Fisher helped with the final development and community outreach specialists, sustainability design of the CAP document. She also oversaw planners, and environmental analysts in a the preparation of a focused MND for the CAP comprehensive update to this general plan and addressing transportation, land use, air quality, zoning ordinance. The program included an greenhouse gas emissions, and noise. extensive public outreach program, including a website, newsletters, a General Plan Advisory City of West Hollywood, General Plan, CAP, and Committee, youth outreach, and public Program EIR, West Hollywood, CA: Ms. Fisher workshops. The land use alternatives process helped lead a team to complete a Noise Element, was informed by the AECOM’s Sustainable Climate Action Plan (CAP), and Environmental Systems Integration Model (SSIM), which helped Impact Report for the City of West Hollywood. highlight key sustainability factors. As a tandem The CAP included strategies and performance process, the Zoning Ordinance was also updated indicators to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to reflect a form-based approach to development from both municipal and community-wide in targeted mixed use areas. A Program EIR was activities. The strategies aim to achieve prepared. The General Plan won a local and State greenhouse gas reductions though community APA award for comprehensive planning for a leadership and engagement, land use and small jurisdiction. community design, transportation and mobility, energy use and efficiency, water use and City of San Diego, Old Town and Midway efficiency, waste reduction and recycling, and Community Plan Updates and Program EIR, green space. San Diego, CA: Ms. Fisher helped lead parallel

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Claire Bonham-Carter, LEED AP Senior Advisor

Firm Claire Bonham-Carter is a Principal with AECOM with 19+ years of AECOM experience working on climate change planning and sustainable design and construction / sustainability strategy projects for a Education range of public and private sector clients. Her experience spans MA, Natural Sciences, University policy planning for municipalities, as well as sustainability of Cambridge, 1993 frameworks and feasibility studies for new and existing mixed-use communities to minimize impact from an environmental, social, Registrations/Certifications and economic perspective. She has worked on climate mitigation LEED Accredited Professional plans for a number of U.S. cities including Seattle, Baltimore, and Professional Affiliations New York, as well as many smaller California cities and counties. City and County of San Francisco She also specializes in climate vulnerability and risk assessments - Renewable Energy Task Force and adaptation plans with a focus on transportation with projects completed or underway for the San Francisco Bay Area’s Urban Land Institute - San Metropolitan Transportation Commission, LA Metro, the Port of Francisco Chapter Long Beach, the County of Santa Clara, and the Capital Regional EcoDistricts District in British Columbia. She manages AECOM’s partnership US Green Building Council - with the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Global Cities Program, and Northern California Chapter the Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities Program.

National Urban Land Institute PROJECT EXPERIENCE Years of Experience 20 CURB Tool – World Bank, Washington DC and Bloomberg Philanthropies, New York, C40 Group, New York, NY: Project References Director working for the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Stephen A. Hammer, PhD division of the World Bank, Bloomberg Philanthropies and C40, Lead Specialist Cities and AECOM is developing a climate action planning decision support Climate Change Global Urban tool that will allow city staff throughout the world identify and and DRM Unit Social, Urban, Rural prioritize GHG emission abatement interventions in the and Resilience Global Practice transportation, building energy, water, and waste sectors. The The World Bank Group CURB tool contains a city capacity assessment module that helps [email protected] city staff select interventions suited to their community and an 202-473-1220 intervention development module that allows staff to customize intervention implementation assumptions. The tool provides Alice Kennedy, Deputy estimates of GHG emission abatement potential, cost and savings, Commissioner and community co-benefits for each selected intervention. Division of Green, Healthy and Sustainable Homes, Department Santa Clara County, Silicon Valley 2.0 Project, CA: Technical of Housing and Community Advisor. AECOM assisted Santa Clara County in successfully Development securing grant funding for the project, which is a regional effort to [email protected] minimize the anticipated impacts of climate change and reduce 410-396-3474 the generation of local greenhouse gas emissions. AECOM prepared a regional climate action and adaptation plan; decision support tools for vulnerability assessment and community resilience, infrastructure investment, community health, and ecosystem benefits.

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Claire Bonham-Carter, LEED AP (continued)

PlaNYC, GHG Mitigation Study and Economic City of San Bernardino Energy Efficiency Assessment, New York City, NY: Project Consulting Services + CAP, CA: AECOM Manager. This project looked beyond the goals developed an Energy Efficiency Conservation and strategies of PlaNYC 2030, and its goal of Strategy (EECS) and a CAP for the City of San achieving a 30% GHG reduction by 2030, to an Bernardino. The EECS considered how best to 80% reduction by 2050. AECOM reviewed spend the Energy Efficiency Conservation Block whether such a reduction goal was technically Grant dollars allocated to San Bernardino to possible, at what societal cost, and what actions maximize energy savings, greenhouse gas would need to be taken in the next five years to reductions and job generation through investing make sure the City set the right course to in energy efficiency retrofits, renewable energy achieve it. AECOM also conducted an economic projects and appropriate land use planning impact analysis of GHG reducing policies within policies. AECOM’s work for the Climate Action PlaNYC 2030, using REMI to analyze Plan included an extensive public consultation construction, operations and maintenance, and process, GHG municipal inventory development, long-term productivity benefits accruing to the and identification and prioritization of carbon city’s economy, particularly focused on policies reduction measures through rigorous cost leading to energy reduction in buildings. benefit analysis.

City of Baltimore CAP, Baltimore, MD: Principal Metro, Vulnerability Assessment, CA: Principal- in Charge. The project includes quantifying the in-Charge for the development of a Climate likely GHG reduction potential of the City’s Vulnerability Assessment for Metro’s rail and bus current sustainability plan, developing new network assets. As part of this project AECOM strategies to reduce emissions in the has carried out a climate science review and transportation, land use, energy and water updated an asset inventory with identification of sectors as well as developing the first steps in a the most critical assets. A risk management comprehensive adaptation strategy. AECOM workshop with staff rated climate impact risks in worked with a large advisory committee made up terms of likelihood of occurring and of leaders of city departments and other local consequence of impact in order to prioritize stakeholders to ensure a highly relevant, potential adaptation solutions. targeted and acceptable plan is developed. This project leveraged an early version of AECOM’s Metro, Resiliency Indicator Framework CAP toolkit (which then went on to be developed Development, CA: Principal-in-Charge for into the CURB toolkit for the World Bank). AECOM’s resiliency indicator framework which focused on climate change for Metro’s Highways, City of Beaumont, Beaumont CAP, Beaumont, Regional Rail, and Transit programs. These CA: Project Director. Ms. Bonham-Carter led the indicators will be used to help prioritize and project developing a CAP for the City of evaluate climate adaptation implementation Beaumont. The project included development of priorities to ensure infrastructure resiliency and a GHG inventory; GHG projections; advising the maintain a state of good repair. Tasks included City on setting a GHG reduction target; completing a detailed literature review, identification of additional local policies and identifying resiliency principles, developing a programs that would contribute to achievement measurement framework, creating guidance for of the target; and recommendations of which using the indicators, and scoping future policies and programs to pursue based on an investigations. economic assessment of each of the policies and programs. Claire led tasks involved with completing the GHG inventory, GHG projections, target setting, and developing GHG reduction policies and programs for inclusion in the CAP.

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Ryan Wiggins Deputy Project Manager

Firm Ryan has more than 10 years experience in sustainability policy, AECOM planning, and economics nationally and here in California. Before recently joining AECOM he collaborated with state agencies and Education other stakeholders from the transportation, housing, MA, International Development, conservation, public health, business, and labor sectors to shape American University, 2007 California’s efforts to establish policy and funding frameworks MA, Natural Resources and for nearly 20 of the state’s sustainability grant programs under Sustainable Development, UN Cap-and-Trade. He also worked with municipalities, regional Mandated University for Peace, agencies, and the private sector to successfully design and 2007 submit projects for funding that meet state sustainability guidelines, including here in San Diego. Additionally, he has BA, International Relations, UC worked extensively on applying state climate policy to Regional Davis, 2004 Transportation Plans, Complete Streets, transit and transit- Years of Experience oriented development, and freight movement. While with AECOM 10 he has been focused on leading efforts to evaluate the environmental, social, and economic impacts – also known as References Triple Bottom Line Analysis – of planning efforts including the Allison Joe, Deputy Director Unified Port of San Diego Master Plan Update and the Kearny California Strategic Growth Mesa Community Plan Update. Council 916-322-2318 PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Lisa Hershey, Executive Director Unified Port of San Diego Master Plan Update, San Diego, CA: Housing California Ryan is leading efforts to conduct a Triple Bottom Line (TBL) [email protected] Analysis of the Port Master Plan Update. The TBL analysis focuses 916-287-9885 on economic, social, and environmental metrics, including evaluating how different policies and land and water uses will impact GHG emissions, energy and water use, mobility, and economic development. He is also leading the analysis of the economic and fiscal impacts of different land use scenarios to evaluate key metrics such as jobs, wages, and sales, and property tax revenues.

Kearny Mesa Community Plan Update, San Diego, CA Ryan is the Deputy Project Manager, the lead on economic special studies, and a TBL Analysis to evaluate the impact key community planning policies and frameworks will have on Kearny Mesa development and meeting the City of San Diego’s Climate Action Plan.

TransForm, Climate Policy Projects, CA Over the last several years he worked with state agencies and stakeholders throughout the state to design, implement, and monitor the California Climate Investments Program (CCIP) which

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distributes funds generated by cap-and-trade. and administered more than $20M worth of During this time he also worked with cities, government contracts. developers, and nonprofits to design and evaluate projects and quantify their GHG Center for Legal, Environmental, and Social reductions, co-benefits, and cost-effectiveness Action of Guatemala (CALAS), Conflict for submission to various competitive CCIP grant Resolution, Guatemala programs. Over 25 of the projects he worked on As the Field Program Coordinator, led efforts, received state CCIP funding. He also co-created along with indigenous leaders, to establish local and managed, Climate Benefits California, a site and regional development councils in to monitor and track climate investments in accordance with the 1996 Guatemalan Peace California and highlight best practices and Accords. Planned and carried out regional innovations. Finally, he worked directly with indigenous resource extraction conferences in agencies such as the Strategic Growth Council to order to assist indigenous leaders in their efforts craft the CCIP program guidelines that prioritized to create resource use frameworks that funding projects that integrated transportation, prioritized sustainable environmental and energy, and natural resources elements. economic development practices.

Transportation for America, Federal U.S. Navy, Search and Rescue and Missile Transportation Policy Projects, CA Systems Ryan managed a coalition of more than 100 Lead Search and Rescue Swimmer onboard the elected officials, labor, business, and USS-Jarrett, missile system technician. Master environmental groups to pass a $109 billion Helmsman, and anti-smuggling operator. Ryan federal transportation bill containing key policies deployed to the Persian Gulf twice in support of and funding frameworks that supported the U.N. Oil for Food Program and other key California’s efforts to invest in a multimodal, expeditions. low-carbon transportation system. He also led successful efforts to require reporting of the public health, economic, and safety impacts of federal transportation investments.

Communities for Clean Ports, Goods Movement Policy Projects, Los Angeles, CA Ryan directed implementation of campaign strategies to promote the deployment of 1,000 alternative-fueled trucks, and the success of the Clean Trucks Program and clean air policy at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. He also managed efforts to advance statewide regulations that have significantly reduced diesel pollution in the Southern California Air Basin.

Washington Maritime Shipping Corporation, Goods Movement Logistics, Washington, DC Drove a process inducing ocean carriers to identify and implement environmental initiatives to reduce air and water pollution in order to gain government USAID contracts. Wrote, managed,

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Darryl Hatheway, CFM Sea Level Rise Adaptation

Firm Mr. Hatheway has over 30 years of experience in the areas of AECOM coastal and oceanographic engineering on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts, and has conducted FEMA coastal flood insurance Education studies (FISs) with 2-D hurricane surge modeling, performed BS, Oceanographic Technology, coastal flood hazard identification and flood elevation Florida Institute of Technology, determinations, assessed coastal storm impacts on built 1976 environment, prepared 1-D transect analyses for dune erosion and wave effects, assisted with natural disaster damage assessments, AS, Environmental Technology, worked with state officials on coastal resource management Florida Institute of Technology, program development, provided support on coastal hazard 1976 mitigation plans. Registrations/Certifications Certified Floodplain Manager PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Professional Affiliations Federal Emergency Management Agency Sea Level Rise Association of State Floodplain Vulnerability Pilot Study, San Francisco, CA: Technical Manager. Managers The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requested Training an assessment of the flooding and erosion hazards associated Residential Coastal Construction with sea level rise along the open coast of San Francisco County. Mr. Hatheway is providing technical oversight of the project Years of Experience technical methodology to model increased wave runup and 35 overtopping of natural protective features and structures with multi-decadal projections of sea level rise. Upon successful References completion of the pilot study, FEMA plans expand the pilot study Ed Curtis, PE, CFM, FEMA into a large scale study of the entire California coast. This project Region IX, 1111 Broadway, includes coordination with other federal, State and private Suite 1200 agencies, including the USACE, USGS, Our Coasts Our Future, Oakland, CA 94607 NOAA, CA Ocean Protection Council, and others. 510-627-7207 Federal Emergency Management Agency - Headquarters, Mark Crowell, Physical Scientist, Impact of Climate Change on the National Flood Insurance Federal Insurance and Mitigation Program, Nationwide, United States: Coastal mapping review Administration (FIMA), DHS/ panel member and contribute to the climate change impacts FEMA study. The intergovernmental panel on climate change report will 400 C Street SW, Suite 313, be used to determine the various climate predictions that have Washington, DC 20472-3020, been performed for the US, and a Monte Carlo simulation will be 202-646-3432 used to determine the variability of those predictions.

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Region IX, RiskMAP Program - Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment Demonstration, Crescent City, CA: Technical manager and senior coastal scientist on the project that involves high level technical support and mapping for a probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment for Crescent City. The study results will be considered for revisions to FEMA flood inundation maps from potential

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earthquake sources that could generate a sea level rise on shoreline change rates of tsunami affecting the city. The project recession, including studies for 27 coastal investigates the flood hazards due to tsunamis counties (1996 to 1999), including shorelines of and will look at tsunamis generated by 27 Maine, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, different seismic sources, including the Cascadia North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Texas, Subduction Zone source off the coast of California (San Diego and Santa Cruz Counties), California, Oregon, and Washington. The tsunami Oregon, and Hawaii. Assisted in and managed the mapping will include wave runup and flood completion of a Glynn County, Georgia pilot inundation for both the 1%-annual-chance erosion hazard study and shoreline change (100- year) and 0.2%-annual-chance (500-year) mapping project (1999). More recently, in flood levels for Crescent City. Additional cooperation with the Heinz Center and FEMA, methodology assessments will be conducted to helped prepare a national plan to develop erosion compare technical approach by California hazard maps for the National Flood Insurance geologic survey for recent tsunami studies. Program.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Federal Emergency Management Agency - Headquarters, Improving Coastal Floodplain - Headquarters, Impact of Climate Change on Mapping, Nationwide, United States: Lead in the NFIP and Improving Coastal Floodplain primary frontal dune and coastal A Zone studies, Mapping, Nationwide, United States: Lead in directing study to evaluate FEMA’s coastal PFD primary frontal dunes and coastal A Zone policies and provide recommendations to studies, directing study to evaluate FEMA’s correct inequities in flood insurance and hazard coastal PFD policies and provide mapping that occur due to existing policies. recommendations to correct inequities in flood Coastal A Zone investigated a new coastal flood insurance and hazard mapping that occur due to insurance zone, which would better account for existing policies. Coastal A Zone study will the increased risk to property or loss of life in investigate a new coastal flood insurance zone, areas close to the shoreline and subject to wave which would better account for the increased hazards. risk to property or loss of life in areas close to the shoreline and subject to wave hazards. Also 22nd District Agricultural Association serve on the coastal mapping review panel, and Fairgrounds, Del Mar Fairgrounds Salt Marsh contribute to the climate change impacts study. Restoration Planning for South Parking Lot, The IPCC report will be used to determine the Del Mar, CA: Senior coastal scientist for the various climate predictions that have been project that involved providing technical support performed for the US, and a Monte Carlo on coastal hydrology for tidal inundation simulation will be used to determine the extremes along the north shore embankment of variability of those predictions. San Dieguito River and south parking lot of Del Mar Fairgrounds. Included conceptual design of salt marsh restoration activities that factor considerations of tidal fluctuations and extreme flood events from coastal flooding events propagating from Pacific Ocean through the tidal inlet and inland to project area.

Federal Emergency Management Agency, Erosions Hazard Study and Mapping, Various Locations, United States: Supported a 5-year FEMA effort to evaluate coastal erosion hazards and analyze long-term impacts of erosion and

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Justin Vandever Sea Level Rise Adaptation

Firm Mr. Vandever is a coastal engineer with ten years of consulting AECOM experience in coastal science, engineering, and climate change adaptation. His project experience includes climate change Education vulnerability and risk assessments, sea level rise inundation MS, Marine Science, Virginia mapping, coastal processes and flooding, design of coastal Institute of Marine Science, estuarine restoration and monitoring projects, and response of College of William and Mary, coastal and estuarine environments to sea level rise. Mr. Vandever 2007 has served as a quality reviewer and technical advisor on BS, Civil and Environmental numerous coastal flooding and climate change-related projects. Engineering, Cornell University, He has co-authored numerous technical articles related to climate 2004 change vulnerability, including sea level rise impacts in San Francisco Bay, effects of coastal erosion on the California coast, Coastal Engineering Certificate, and mitigating climate change through coastal wetland Old Dominion University, 2012 restoration and has presented at regional, nationwide, and Registrations/Certifications international coastal conferences. Mr. Vandever is an AECOM Professional Engineer (Civil), project manager, and was selected as one of the American Society California of Civil Engineers’ New Faces of Civil Engineering in 2013. Coastal Engineering Certificate PROJECT EXPERIENCE Professional Affiliations San Diego County Planning Department, Local Coastal Program American Society of Civil Update, San Diego, CA: Coastal Engineer. Supported the County Engineers of San Diego in a Land Use Plan update to incorporate American Shore and Beach consideration of sea level rise hazards into countywide planning Preservation Association efforts. Conducted a high level sea level rise and shoreline change American Geophysical Union vulnerability and risk assessment for resources and assets located within the county’s unincorporated coastal zone. Years of Experience 9 San Francisco Local Coastal Program Update. City and County of San Francisco, CA: Coastal lead. This amendment to the References existing (1986) Local Coastal Program will incorporate sea level rise and climate change impacts within the coastal zone along the Ed Curtis, PE, CFM, FEMA Pacific Coast shoreline and will incorporate many of the Region IX, 1111 Broadway, recommendations of the Ocean Beach Master Plan. AECOM Suite 1200 performed relevant sea level rise analyses and work with CCSF, Oakland, CA 94607 interagency groups, and the public to support a policy document 510-627-7207 amendment which addresses sea level impacts within the coastal zone. Wendy Goodfriend, Climate and Systems Program Manager, San Federal Emergency Management Agency - Region IX, Risk Map Francisco Department of the Program - Coastal Hazard Analysis and Mapping, Pacific Coast Environment and Sea Level Rise Pilot Study, CA: Technical lead on a team 1455 Market Street #1200, conducting tide frequency analysis, nearshore wave modeling, San Francisco, CA 94103 wave runup and overtopping, and coastal flood mapping for 415-355-5012 central California. Technical lead on sea level rise pilot study in City and County of San Francisco developing methodology to

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include effects of sea level rise in FEMA mapping sea level rise inundation maps, a shoreline products developed comparison of mapping vulnerability assessment, and conceptual design products between FEMA and Our Coast Our and cost estimates as part of a climate change Future. adaptation study. Led inundation mapping and vulnerability and risk assessment tasks. Port of Long Beach, Climate Adaptation and Coastal Resiliency Strategy, Long Beach, CA: Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) Coastal Engineer. Climate change and coastal Climate Change Training Toolkit: Project hazards are anticipated to cause direct or Manager. AECOM is assisting the USDN in indirect consequences to the port’s developing climate change training materials for infrastructure and operations in the future. A local municipalities to train their own staff in climate adaptation and coastal resiliency plan climate change resilience and preparedness. The was prepared for the port to enhance its focus of the training is on climate-driven changes infrastructure and operations. Provided coastal to coastal, riverine, and urban flooding and their engineering expertise in support of an evaluation impact on municipal infrastructure, services, of climate change impacts, assessment of risks ecosystems, and vulnerable populations. AECOM to the port, and preparation and implementation is preparing the training materials and will of a climate resiliency plan, including an conduct a training workshop for municipal staff evaluation of breakwater performance in to teach them how to deliver the training to their response to sea level rise. coworkers.

Orange County Public Works Department, Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Coastal Hazards Assessment, Edinger Ave San Francisco Bay Conservation and Bridge at Bolsa Chica Channel – Huntington Development Commission, Adapting to Rising Beach, CA: Technical Lead on coastal hazards Tides Pilot Project, Alameda County, CA: Sea assessment for a bridge replacement project at level rise modeling advisor. Collaborated with Edinger Avenue over Bolsa Chica Channel, in US Geological Survey and National Oceanic and Huntington Harbour. AECOM assessed riverine and Atmospheric Administration scientists to analyze coastal flood risk to the proposed bridge design in results of a 100-year hydrodynamic model consideration of future sea level rise. The coastal simulation of future bay conditions to estimate hazards assessment was completed in support of a daily tide and storm inundation levels for various Coastal Development Permit submitted to the sea level rise scenarios. The results were used to California Coastal Commission (CCC) and followed produce state of the art inundation maps to the CCC’s draft sea level rise guidance. assess the risk to transportation assets in the study area. The pilot study in San Francisco Bay Los Angeles Department of Public Works assisted regional and local transportation and Bureau of Engineering, Paseo del Mar White planning agencies to better understand the risk Point Landslide Restoration Geotechnical TO of sea level rise to transportation infrastructure. 14, Los Angeles, CA: Coastal Engineer. Conducted coastal wave runup study for existing and future conditions at site of bluff failure to inform development of conceptual design alternatives to stabilize the bluff and restore transportation infrastructure along the bluff top.

University of California - Davis, Highway 37 Sea Level Rise Study, Oakland, CA: Deputy project manager. AECOM provided technical services to Caltrans to develop a sea level rise vulnerability study of California Highway 37 in north San Francisco Bay. AECOM is developing

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Aaron McGregor Cost-Benefit Analysis

Firm Aaron McGregor specializes in applied public policy analysis. In his AECOM 10 years of experience in social science research and economic analysis, he has worked with government agencies, academic Education institutions, non-governmental organizations, and private entities. MA, Planning: Emphasis in Aaron’s work is rooted in understanding the relationships between Environmental Analysis and land use strategies in the built and natural environment and Policy, and Land Use Economics, changes in economic activity and well-being. A large portfolio University of California Los of Aaron’s work addresses the socio-economic impacts from a Angeles, 2010 changing climate, as well as the costs and benefits of adaptation BA, Political Science: Emphasis measures that can help communities manage these increasing in Political Economy, Westmont risks. He has participated as an advisor and technical lead on a College, 2007 number of climate change vulnerability and adaptation studies, co-authored articles and reports on these topics, presented his Professional Affiliations work at professional conferences and meetings, provided expert Board member of the California testimony, and sat on committees to inform public policy. Shore and Beach Preservation Before joining AECOM in 2016, Aaron worked for the U.S. Army Association Corps of Engineers, the California Ocean Science Trust, the State of Years of Experience California, and as an independent consultant. 10 As an economist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Aaron was a technical lead on large scale planning and engineering studies in References coastal and riverine environments. In this role, he applied rigorous Hilary Papendick, Climate economic, statistical and geospatial analysis techniques in support Change Program Manager of assessments addressing sea-level rise vulnerability, flood risk County of San Mateo management, ecosystem restoration, and deep draft navigation. [email protected] As an associate scientist with the California Ocean Science 650-363-4194 Trust, Aaron worked between the boundary of policy makers and researchers to support the production of useful and actionable Kelly Leo, Coastal Program scientific knowledge. His primary focus was the exchange of socio- Director economic information on issues ranging from climate change The Nature Conservancy vulnerability, to fisheries management and coastal economies. In [email protected] this capacity, Aaron participated on a number of policy bodies that 631- 806-8080 drafted guidance materials on climate change adaptation planning, as well as the organization and distribution of geospatial data resources to support natural resource decision-making. As an environmental economic researcher for the State of California, Aaron collaborated on some of the earliest work evaluating the potential economic effects of sea-level rise to California’s coastal ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. This work addressed increased hazard risks from a changing climate along the coast, the capacity of the natural and built environment to respond to these evolving conditions, and potential strategies and associated financing mechanisms to support adaptation in a manner that balances tradeoffs between the economy and the environment.

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PROJECT EXPERIENCE North of the Delta Off Stream Storage Investigation, CA: The objective of this work Financial Impacts of Sea Level Rise, Port of is to assess the financial feasibility of a multi- Los Angeles, CA: In response to the California billion dollar off-site water storage reservoir State Lands Commission requirement to assess that will support environmental as well as social the impact of seal level rise on granted trust and economic benefits. Aaron is evaluating lands, Aaron provided consultation and review the economic costs and benefits from various of the Port’s approach to the analysis of financial construction alternatives for recreation, impacts across multiple sea level rise scenarios. hydropower, urban and agricultural water supply, Temporary and permanent impacts are being refuges, fish populations, and flooding. He is assessed for damaged goods and infrastructure, also evaluating various financing mechanism and the value of lost use of Port lands is also being to support the capital investments required for considered. These impacts will be compared construction as well as the recurring operating to the estimated cost of adaptation measures and maintenance costs. 2016-present. to derive the benefits from adaptation actions. 2016-present. Flood Risk Management Feasibility Study, Pajaro River, CA*: The objective of this work Berkeley Energy Assurance Transformation, was to evaluate the costs and benefits of a Berkeley, CA: To inform the development of a range of proposed structural and non-structural clean energy community microgrid in Downtown engineering solutions to mitigate flood risks to a Berkeley, Aaron is evaluating various business mixed urban and agricultural community. Aaron models to procure, develop and operate conducted probabilistic risk assessments to prototype systems. This evaluation addresses identify the economic effects to agricultural potential microgrid revenue streams, financing production, buildings and infrastructure, and other vehicles, and organizational structures, and socio-economic variables. Aaron was the lead involves the estimation of the costs and economist on this study, requiring collaboration benefits of different technological prototypes. with the local community at risk, as well as the 2017-present. production and presentation of methods and findings for audiences with varying degrees of Citywide Storm Sewer System Master Plan, technical acumen. Aaron led similar studies for San Jose, CA: To inform capital improvement San Francisquito Creek and Corte Madera Creek. investments to the City of San Jose’s sewer 2015-2016. system, Aaron is leading a triple bottom line analysis (TBL) to evaluate identified San Mateo County Sea Level Rise Vulnerability environmental, social and financial costs Assessment, CA*: The objective of this and benefits. This investigation involves an assessment was to identify vulnerable assets on assessment of a suite of alternatives with varying the bay and coast side of the San Mateo County combinations of grey and green infrastructure peninsula, determine types of impacts, issue solutions. 2016-present. initial recommendations on adaptation measures, and improve flooding and sea level rise mapping. NASA Ames Master Plan, Mountain View, Aaron evaluated the economic vulnerability of CA: Aaron is evaluating capital investment critical county assets (e.g., transportation, health requirements, life-cycle costs, pro-forma/ care, wastewater) to sea level rise and erosion, cash-flow metrics, and potential public-private accounting for direct physical damages as partnerships to generate sustainable revenue well as effects to worker productivity, regional streams for ongoing rehabilitation and new employment and commercial and industrial development at the Ames Campus in support entities. 2015-2016. of their current 20-year master planning effort. 2016-present. *Indicates prior AECOM

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Jason Paukovits CAP

Firm Mr. Paukovits, with 14 years of experience, has a broad AECOM background in environmental analysis, project management, contract administration, regional planning, and project-specific Education review. Jason is an environmental analyst, currently specializing in MS, Public Policy, Duke CEQA and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) University, 2001 documentation and offering long-range planning and mitigation MS, Environmental Management, strategies associated with air quality, climate change, and energy Duke University, 2001 impacts. He has worked on a diverse range of construction, residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation projects. BS, Environmental Resource Management, Pennsylvania Through his work as both a consultant and government employee, State University, 1996 he has significant experience with agency coordination and local, state and federal environmental and planning regulations. Mr. BA, Psychology, Pennsylvania Paukovits managed air quality planning and policy development for State University, 1996 the eight San Joaquin Valley metropolitan planning organizations. Years of Experience Mr. Paukovits led development of the 2007 Regional Transportation 14 Plan for Fresno County, including management of the Environmental Impact Report (EIR), staff activities, and coordination with state and References federal agencies. Mr. Paukovits was also responsible for contract Todd Majcher administration, compliance with local, state and federal mandates, Lowe Enterprises conformity analyses, and management of the Congestion Mitigation Town and Country Project and Air Quality grant program. He coordinated the development of [email protected]; greenhouse gas policies for the Fresno Council of Governments 310-948-9647 with the California Attorney General’s office and local jurisdictions.

City of Santa Ana PROJECT EXPERIENCE Melanie G. McCann Climate Action Plan CEQA San Diego County Water Authority, Climate Action Plan Annual Analysis Report, San Diego County, CA: Analyst who is developing a [email protected] spreadsheet-based tool for tracking annual GHG emissions and 714-667-2746 completing the first annual report that tracks progress of the Climate Action Plan. City of Santa Ana, Climate Action Plan CEQA Analysis, Orange County, CA: Assistant project manager and climate change analyst who is developing the CEQA analysis for the City’s Climate Action Plan. Reviewed emission inventories and measures in the Climate Action Plan and developed environmental documents to meet CEQA requirements. San Diego County Water Authority, Climate Action Plan and EIR, San Diego County, CA: Analyst who revised the existing GHG inventory and projected future emissions for San Diego County Water Authority operational activities. Developed the air quality and global climate change sections of the EIR for the Master Plan Update and Climate Action Plan.

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County of San Diego, Climate Action Plan and Los Angeles County Department of Public CEQA GHG Threshold Guidelines, San Diego Works, Admiralty Way/Via Marina Intersection County, CA: Analyst who assisted in developing Improvements Project EIR, Los Angeles GHG emission thresholds for use in CEQA County, CA: Analyst who updated the air quality analyses for future projects. Estimated and global climate change EIR sections for emissions for various project types and proposed intersection improvements. Evaluated scenarios to recommend the significance the impacts of project construction and threshold and revised the County’s CEQA operations based on guidelines from the South guidelines. Coast Air Quality Management District. San Diego Association of Governments Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, (SANDAG) 2050 Regional Transportation Plan Lakeside Regional Park Project, Los Angeles (RTP)/Sustainable Communities Strategies County, CA: Analyst who estimated the criteria (SCS) EIR, San Diego, CA: Analyst who assisted in pollutant and GHG emissions for the proposed preparing the air quality and GHG sections of the project that includes baseball fields, soccer SANDAG 2050 RTP/SCS EIR. Key issues included fields, skate park and associated facilities. land use development, transportation emissions, Developed the technical sections for the EIR, compliance with SB 375, and mitigation measures including health risks associated with locating for the first RTP to include a SCS. park facilities within 500 feet of the Interstate 5 and 405 freeways. City of Mountain View, Mountain View Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan, Santa Clara Los Angeles County Department of Public County, CA: Global climate change analyst who Works, Topanga Underground Utility District revised the current GHG emissions inventory and Project, Los Angeles County, CA: Analyst who developed the future inventory for the developed the air quality and greenhouse gas Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan based on land sections for construction and relocation of uses included in the proposed City of Mountain overhead utility distribution lines underground. View General Plan. Evaluated the impacts of the project based on guidelines from the South Coast Air Quality Los Angeles County Metro, On-Call Management District. Environmental Contract, Los Angeles, CA: Analyst who developed the air quality and Orange County Parks Department, Santa Ana greenhouse gas analysis for the Metro Blue River Parkway Extension Project EIR, Orange Line Crossovers Initial Study-Mitigated County, CA: Analyst who developed the air Negative Declaration (MND). Developed the air quality and greenhouse gas sections for a quality and greenhouse gas analysis for the project to construct bikeway and hiking trails. North Hollywood Temporary Parking Lots Evaluated the impacts of the project based on project. Provided peer review of the fugitive dust guidance from the South Coast Air Quality control plan for the Crenshaw/Los Angeles Management District. International Airport Transit Corridor Project. Orange County Transportation Authority, Southern California Gas Company, Aliso Interstate 5 Improvement, Orange County, CA: Canyon Turbine Replacement, Los Angeles Analyst who developed the air quality technical County, CA: Air quality analyst who provided report, consistent with the Caltrans Standard mitigation monitoring support for construction of Environmental Reference, for a project that a turbine replacement project. Evaluated involved additional high- occupancy-vehicle construction equipment used on the project site, capacity in both directions and ramp reviewed material data sheets, and developed improvements. monthly emission estimates and reports for the South Coast Air Quality Management District and CPUC.

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Paola Peña CAP

Firm Ms. Peña is an air quality scientist with experience in preparing AECOM project-level air emissions inventories of criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gases. She provides air quality and climate change Education impact analysis for incorporation into environmental impact BS, Environmental Chemistry assessments in CEQA-related projects. Ms. Peña has experience – Environmental Systems, in applying California’s Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) Global Warming University of California, San Solutions Act of 2006 as well as the requirements of CEQA to air Diego quality and greenhouse gas projects through emissions modeling and spreadsheet calculations analysis. Her work with evaluating Professional Affiliations environmental impacts in relation to local, regional, and federal Association of Environmental regulations, allows her to understand air quality and climate change Professionals impacts for new development projects, and ensure development Years of Experience projects have assessed the associated air quality and greenhouse 4 gas issues.

References PROJECT EXPERIENCE Todd Majcher Citiplace Residential Development, CAP, San Diego, CA: Ensured Lowe Enterprises project consistency with the Climate Action Plan Consistency Town and Country Project Checklist for the City of San Diego. [email protected]; 310-948-9647 Woodland General Plan, Health Risk from Roadways Analysis, Woodland, California: Assisted in analyzing project-specific Kristofer Golder roadways based on associated traffic data and land use information Essex Property Trust, Inc. in accordance with Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Citiplace Front & Ash Management District Roadway Protocols. Development Project [email protected] Town & Country Resort and Convention Center Redevelopment 949-863-4268 Project, San Diego, CA: Ensured project consistency and applicability with the Climate Action Plan Consistency Checklist for the City of San Diego. Assisted in the development of criteria air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions estimates for the Final Environmental Impact Report.

Mile Square Regional Park Multi-Sport Facility, Air Quality/ GHG Analysis, Fountain Valley, CA: Developed the air quality and greenhouse gas emissions model for the Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration CEQA document for a recreational facility in Orange County.

Paseo Del Mar Permanent Restoration Project, Los Angeles, CA: Developed the criteria air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions estimates associated with construction activities for the proposed project that would restore a section of a roadway.

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Review of Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Assessments, Riverside County, CA: Assisted in the review of air quality and greenhouse gas documents including review of any assumptions, calculations, and formulas used for a variety of development projects pursuant to the CEQA.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Technical Memo, Imperial Valley, CA: Developed the greenhouse gas comparison analysis of different transportation fuels for the Imperial Valley College/San Diego State University Transit Shuttle Analysis in Imperial Valley. The analysis was used to plan, design and schedule potential transit services suitable for the specific route needs and requirements.

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Krista Ellis, AEP CEQA

Firm Ms. Ellis’ experience lies in environmental research and analysis, AECOM data management, and quality control. She has over 19 years of academic study and presentation of environmental topics, Education emphasizing planning, regulatory, permitting, and social MS, Environmental Studies, environmental issues. As a communications specialist, Ms. Ellis California State University, has expertise in translating environmental and scientific data into Fullerton, 1997 layman’s terms, monitoring contracts, and writing newsletters, BA, Environmental Studies and brochures, and preparing various types of reports. Krista is the Geography (Double Major), co-founder and previous Chairwoman of the San Diego AECOM University of California at Santa Gender Diversity Committee. Barbara, 1994 PROJECT EXPERIENCE Registrations/Certifications CA/Associate Environmental County of San Diego, Planning and Development Services, Local Professional (AEP)/ #3165 Coastal Program Update: Ms. Ellis participated as a key member of the AECOM team, leading implementation of client and Coastal Years of Experience Commission comment revisions, coordinating team members, 19 performing environmental research, and revising draft Existing Conditions and Land Use Plan documents. References Marc Cass, Assoc. DBIA, Project 22nd District Agricultural Association, Revised Del Mar Manager-Entitlements, County Fairgrounds Master Plan EIR: Ms. Ellis is leading the AECOM of San Diego, team to revise a Master Plan EIR. Her role is client liaison, team [email protected] leader, quality control, author, and project coordinator. She is 858-694-2047 managing multiple subconsultants and working with the client and Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney to complete this CEQA effort. Current tasks include coordinating multiple draft submittals Dustin Fuller, Supervising and responding to DOJ review comments. Future tasks will include Environmental Planner, 22nd management of revised EIR preparation for public circulation, District Agricultural Association responding to comments, and preparation of the final revised EIR. [email protected] 858-792-4212 San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Decommissioning and Demolition Project: Ms. Ellis is providing as-needed regulatory support on the SONGS project, including on- call expertise for environmental and permitting issues.

County of San Diego; Assessor, Recorder, and County Clerk’s Project; Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration: Ms. Ellis was the lead CEQA analyst for this project. Her role included client coordination, permitting and environmental research, team management, authoring CEQA documents, assessing permitting requirements, and project scheduling.

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Krista Ellis, AEP (continued)

Constellation Solar, Phase I and Phase II Site Caltrans Interstate 805 Improvement Project- Environmental Due Diligence: Ms. Ellis acted North and South Segment: Ms. Ellis assisted as the technical lead for this project, performing with the overall management of the California desktop research and evaluation regarding Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)/National the applicability of federal, state and/or local Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance for environmental permits and approvals. This work a proposed Caltrans project that will add high- was performed for 10 potential solar sites and occupancy vehicle/bus rapid transit lanes and resulted in the development of summary tables, direct access ramps to Interstate 805 in San which documented the research findings. Diego County. She created a Microsoft Project schedule to track environmental and engineering City of San Diego, Sustainable Groundwater tasks; interacted with Caltrans and cooperating Management Plan (SGMA), San Diego, CA: agencies; managed and produced Land Use, Ms. Ellis is acting as the Public Outreach lead Socioeconomics, and Cumulative Impacts for this project. Her role includes providing sections of the environmental document; drafted expertise to the client regarding early stakeholder and coordinated supporting resource input for engagement. Tasks have included client meetings the Initial Study and Preliminary Environmental and communication, stakeholder outreach, and Study (PES); and created and maintained a oversight of a public outreach subconsultant. communication matrix. Future tasks will include on-going public outreach meetings, communication and coordination with San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, local and state agencies. Local agency/district Environmental Assessment: Ms. Ellis managed stakeholders include Sweetwater Authority, Otay the EA for the transport of the decommissioned Water District, Cal Am Water Agency, U.S. Navy, Unit 1 reactor at SONGS. She coordinated with County of San Diego, and Cities of Imperial Beach, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton as the Lead Coronado and San Diego. Agency. Ms. Ellis authored the Noise, Air, and Water sections of the EA. Teras Resources, Inc. - Cahuilla Phase 3 Exploratory Drilling: Krista performed as High Desert Power Project Environmental the technical lead for the environmental Compliance: Ms. Ellis managed the environmental documentation and permitting of exploratory compliance of the 32-mile gas pipeline associated drilling on tribal and public land. Her role included with the High Desert Power Project. She managed refining the Initial Study and supporting technical a matrix of permit conditions and agency reports and permits, managing team members requirements specific to the pipeline, performs and subconsultants, responding to agency and weekly conference calls with the client, interacts public comment letters, and supporting the client and performs tasks for other aspects of the High at various County meetings/hearings. Desert Power Project, and communicates with Federal, State, and local agencies. NAVFAC SW- Naval Support Activity Monterey Existing Conditions Report: Krista acted as the Gas Research Institute Cumulative Impacts technical lead and maintains a critical leadership Assessment Research and Report: Ms. Ellis role; managing a technical team and acting as performed technical editing, literary and internet the URS representative in communications with research, and documentation of American NAVFAC SW and installation personnel. The cumulative impacts assessment techniques, project tasks included multiple client meetings, an in relation to gas pipeline projects. She also installation site visit, and development of multiple worked with Canadian companies and edited drafts and a Final Existing Conditions Report. the Canadian text regarding cumulative impact assessment practices in that country.

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Patty Anders General Plan / Local Coastal Plan

Firm With over 15 years of professional experience in both the private AECOM and public sectors, Patty Anders has a broad knowledge of planning, zoning and land use, development, resource Education management and environmental planning. Ms. Anders has over 8 BA, Urban Studies & Planning, years’ experience as a municipal planner including current and University of California, San advance planning projects, and Zoning Ordinances, Specific Plan Diego, 1993 and General Plan updates. Professional Affiliations Member, American Planning Having worked for the City of Encinitas, Ms. Anders understands Association (APA) the issues unique to coastal communities including preservation of the coast; public views and access; water quality; sand Years of Experience replenishment programs; coastal bluff preservation and 16 restoration; and appropriate location, type and intensity of References development in compliance with the California Coastal Act and certified Local Coastal Programs (LCP). Michael Prinz, Senior Planner, City of San Diego Ms. Anders’ breadth of municipal planning and code experience 619-865-3826 combined with her policy planning experience allows her to assist local jurisdictions to comprehensively and efficiently develop Elizabeth Shearer-Nguyen regulatory and policy documents that are user friendly and City of San Diego streamlined for both staff and the community. 619-446-5369 PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Assistant Planner, City of Encinitas, CA: Assisted with the City’s certification of the Local Coastal Program (LCP). Processed Coastal Development permits to ensure consistency with the City’s LCP, Zoning Ordinance and General Plan. Staffed the Downtown Encinitas Main Street Association (DEMA) which reviewed all development and redevelopment projects in the Downtown Encinitas.

Associate Planner, City of Temecula, CA: Managed a wide range of current planning projects including architectural design review and development compliance with City Zoning Ordinance, General Plan and Specific Plans. Staffed the Old Town Local Review Board which reviewed development and redevelopment projects for architectural and development compliance with the Old Town Specific Plan.

Environmental Planner, University of California, San Diego (UCSD): Managed and reviewed UCSD environmental documents and sub-consultants for all new construction, renovation, or redevelopment projects on-campus and ancillary facilities off- campus. Interfaced and coordinated with project managers, architects, engineers, biologists, and other professionals to obtain the necessary information for preparation of all CEQA documents (EIRs, IS/MNDs, EAs, and CEQA exemptions) and Coastal

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Development Permits. Reviewed technical and consistency with the San Diego River Park studies and co-ordinated with Office of the Master Plan. President environmental staff. Contracted and managed consultant contracts, schedules, and City of San Diego, Stadium Reconstruction EIR, budgets; attended preconstruction meetings; San Diego, CA: Assistant Project Manager/ and reviewed all construction bid documents and Author. Assisted in managing the large team of construction specifications for environmental technical experts and authored multiple sections compliance. Responsibilities included of the a complex Environmental Impact Report conducting campus mitigation monitoring and for an NFL capable stadium to replace Qualcomm reporting throughout construction, including Stadium on the same site with seating capacity interagency coordination. of 68,000. Traffic circulation, parking, air quality, noise, visual impact, and fast track timing were Port of San Diego Master Plan Update, San the critical issues. San Diego needed to maintain Diego, CA: Project Planner that supported an aggressive schedule to meet National Football AECOM’s team of planners, economists, urban League site selection schedule and funding vote designers, coastal policy planners, and mobility filing deadlines. experts to comprehensively updated the Port’s Master Plan. This work program builds upon an Coastal Wetland Restoration, Sweetwater extensive stakeholder and strategic visioning Marsh Unit of the San Diego Bay National process with the intent of developing a modern, Wildlife Refuge Environmental Assessment, streamlined Port Master Plan document to meet San Diego County, CA: On behalf of the U.S. Fish Coastal Act requirements as well as facilitate and Wildlife Service, authored sections of the future project implementation. The updated Plan draft Environmental Assessment that proposes includes refined land and water uses as well as restoration of 11.03 acres of tidally influenced Baywide and Planning District level policies to coastal wetland habitat and 1.41 acres of upland increase coastal access and recreation transition habitat within a 12.44-acre area of the opportunities consistent with the District’s goals. D Street Fill to benefit native fish, wildlife, and plant species and provide habitat for migratory City of South Gate Form-Based Zoning shorebirds and salt marsh dependent species. Ordinance, South Gate, CA: Project Planner assisted with the development a form-based Chollas Triangle Community Plan Update EIR, code for all zones within the City. Key issues San Diego, CA: Project Manager and authored included translating the City’s General Plan sections of the Mid-City Communities Plan— concepts for placemaking, transit oriented Chollas Triangle, General Plan Amendment and development, urban infill, developing Rezone EIR. The project proposes a General Plan architectural and development standards, amendment, Mid-City Communities Plan addressing existing uses, and developing non- amendment, and a rezone to implement a new confirming and transitional zoning standards/ land use designation within Chollas Triangle to overlays. Responsibilities also included authoring allow for the site to develop as a mixed-use sections of the Code, identifying key neighborhood village and implement the General stakeholders, conducting community outreach Plan City of Villages. and making public presentations. Harveston Specific Plan, Temecula, CA:Project Town and Country Master Plan and EIR, San planner for the review, processing, and approval Diego, CA: Authored sections of the Town and of a 550-acre Specific Plan in the City of Country Master Plan which consists of the Temecula. The Specific Plan consisted of 1,921 redevelopment of a 42 acre transit oriented and residential units with live/work opportunities in a the construction of a including for the renovation Village Green, a 17-acre man-made lake, open of and Project manager for the preparation of the space/recreation land uses and a 12-acre EIR with issues focused on biological resources elementary school.

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Leslea Meyerhoff, AICP General Plan / Local Coastal Plan

Firm Ms. Meyerhoff is a certified land use and coastal planner with more Summit Environmental Group than 20 years of professional experience as a CEQA practitioner Education and environmental planning and regulatory specialist representing MA, Environmental Analysis & a variety of public agencies throughout California. Ms. Meyerhoff Policy. University of California, has managed the development of coastal programs, primary Los Angeles, CA infrastructure projects including water supply and delivery BA, Government and projects, power stations, transmission facilities, roadway and Environmental Studies. CSU, transportation projects, solid waste facilities projects, shoreline Sacramento, CA protection and beach restoration projects, lagoon restoration efforts, and master planned communities. Ms. Meyerhoff has Registrations/Certifications experience working with cities and special districts and has American Institute of Certified served as the Project Manager for numerous complex projects. Planners (AICP) She has spent the majority of her career as a planning and Professional Affiliations environmental consultant and early on worked as a legislative aide American Institute of Certified for state and local officials on land use and environmental policy Planners – AICP certification development. Ms. Meyerhoff places special emphasis on a obtained in 1993 commitment to consistently providing the highest levels of client American Planning Association, service and functioning as an extention of public agency staff. San Diego Section Director Pro- Tem 2001-2003 PROJECT EXPERIENCE American Planning Association, San Diego Section Legislative City of Solana Beach Local Coastal Program: Ms. Meyerhoff is Chair 2003-2005 the City’s Local Coastal Program manager and was responsible for California Chapter, APA, preparing the City’s first Local Costal Program (LCP) Land Use Legislative Review Team 2004- Plan (LUP) in compliance with the California Coastal Act. This effort 2006 involved significant collaboration with key stakeholders including California Chapter, APA, State property owners, City Staff, Coastal Commission Staff and NGO’s. Water Plan Review Team 2008 The City’s LUP was adopted by the City Council in 2013 after Director, American Shore & approval by the California Coastal Commission. Ms. Meyerhoff Beach Preservation Association also managed the process to amend the LUP (LUPA) in 2014 and is 2012-2014 managing a second LUP amendment submitted in April 2016. California Coastal Coalition, Current work efforts involve the development of the LCP Local Friend of the Coast, 2013 Implementation Plan (LIP) and related changes to the City’s existing Municipal Code to reflect adopted LUP policies. The entire Years of Experience City is located with the Coastal Zone and therefore both the LUP 20 as well as the LIP are applicable citywide. References USACE Coastal Storm Damage Reduction Project: Ms. Bill Chopyk, Director Meyerhoff is the City’s program manager for the Encinitas-Solana Solana Beach Community Beach U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Storm Damage Development Reduction Project, which received approval from the USACE Civil 858-720-2400 Works Review Board in 2015 and obtained a certified EIR/EIS in 2016 and is currently pending authorization under WRDA 2016. Ms. Johanna N. Canlas, City Attorney Meyerhoff will lead the next phase of the project, which will be the City of Coronado Pre-Construction, Engineering and Design (PED) phase prior to 619-440-4444 construction which is anticipated to commence in 2018.

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Leslea Meyerhoff, AICP (continued)

CCC Local Coastal Program Planning Grant: Cruise Ship Terminal Project and the Broadway Ms. Meyerhoff successfully managed preparation Pier Cruise Ship Terminal Project. of a draft study and LCP Land Use Plan Amendment that seeks to determine the City of Vista, Engineering Department, economic value of a day at the beach in Solana As-needed Environmental Services: Summit Beach. The project was partially funded through has provided on-call environmental support for an LCP Planning grant (CCC Round #1 Grant) the City’s Engineering Department for awarded to the City in the amount of $120,000 in implementation and tiering of projects within the June 2014. To protect public beaches and Sewer Master Plan Program EIR. Summit recreation, the City’s LUP requires the assisted City Staff in developing the approach for formulation and implementation of measures to tiering off the PEIR for CIP projects identified in reduce potential effects of bluff retention devices the Master Plan. Ms. Meyerhoff and her team on the public beach and bluffs and related recently completed the CEQA process for the recreational uses supported by the beach. The Buena Outfall Phase III project in coordination project was completed on time and within the with the City of Vista and Carlsbad, and assisted original budget and has been acknowledged by the City in completing CEQA compliance for the CCC staff as one of only two Round #1 CCC Watson Way CIP project and the Monte Vista CIP funded projects completed on time. project.

Unified Port District of San Diego, Port Master City of Coronado Adjunct Planning Staff Plan Update: Ms. Meyerhoff is the lead coastal Services: Ms. Meyerhoff is currently serving as planner working with the Port on the first adjunct Planning Staff for the City of Coronado comprehensive update to the Port Master Plan Community Development Department on various since 1984. Ms. Meyerhoff is responsible for advanced planning projects including ensuring that development of the Port Master participation in the process to develop the North Plan Update is prepared in coordination with and Island Naval Air Station Airport Land Use in compliance with the Coastal Act policies and Compatibility Plan and EIR. Ms. Meyerhoff is guidelines including the resiliency planning/ managing a team of experts who will conduct a adaptation strategies. Ms. Meyerhoff is the critical review of the plan to evaluate potential project liaison with San Diego District CCC Staff effects of the plan on the City residents, business and is advising the Port and the project team on and long-term plans, policies and regulations key issues anticipated to be of interest to Coastal within the City of Coronado. Commission based on recent experience managing a multi-year effort to complete one of the first entirely new LCP’s in California for the City of Solana Beach.

Unified Port District of San Diego, On-Call Environmental Services: Ms. Meyerhoff was an on-call environmental services contractor for the Port of San Diego having worked on multiple land development and redevelopment projects along the San Diego waterfront. Recent projects include CEQA compliance for the North Embarcadero Alliance Visionary Plan Open Space Amenities and Public Infrastructure project, Lane Field Development Project, B Street

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Monique Chen, P.E. GP Mobility Element

Firm Ms. Chen has over 18 years of experience providing engineering Chen Ryan Associates and planning services to the transportation industry, including both public and private sector clients. As a registered traffic engineer, Education she has been responsible for project management on numerous Bachelor of Science in Civil projects ranging from general plans, master plans, specific plans, Engineering, University of mobility studies, corridor studies, transportation impact analysis, Arizona, Tucson, 1998 operational and demand assessments to conceptual engineering. Specific areas of experience and expertise include traffic Registrations/Certifications engineering and operations, local and regional transportation Registered Traffic Engineer, planning, smart growth planning, multimodal planning, CA #TR2272 development of specifications and cost estimates, and traffic Professional Affiliations impact studies. Monique has served as the Project Manager for Institute of Transportation several planning and engineering projects, such as the Downtown Engineers (ITS) San Diego Mobility Plan, the National City General Plan Mobility Element Update, and the County of San Diego Mobility Element Women’s Transportation Update. Seminar (WTS) Association of Environmental Areas of Expertise Professionals (AEP) Traffic Impact Studies • Traffic Operations & Simulation • CEQA/ NEPA Assessment • General Plans & Circulation Elements • Traffic Years of Experience Calming • Multimodal Planning & Design • Specific Plans • Travel 18 Demand Forecasting Projects/Development

References PROJECT EXPERIENCE Mr. Brad Richter, Assistant Vice President of Planning Downtown San Diego Mobility Plan & EIR, Civic San Diego, CA: Civic San Diego Ms. Chen led a team of consultants to deliver the Downtown San [email protected] Diego Mobility Plan, identifying a multi-modal mobility network and 619-533-7115 establishing policies, programs and projects to improve overall mobility throughout Downtown San Diego. The preferred bicycle Ms. Maureen Gardiner network relies heavily on one- and two-way cycle tracks, providing Associate Engineer multiple opportunities for cyclists to traverse the community along City of San Diego protected bicycle facilities in north-south and east-west directions. [email protected] Ms. Chen oversaw an extensive feasibility analysis throughout the 619-236-7065 preferred bicycle network development, including an intersection design guide and traffic signal operations comprised of 22 distinct cycle track intersection types. Ms. Chen also led the Transportation Impact Analysis for the accompanying EIR, providing environmental documentation and clearance for the recommendations set forth in the Downtown San Diego Mobility Plan.

Southeastern San Diego and Encanto Community Plan Updates & EIR, San Diego, CA: Ms. Chen served as the project manager for the preparation of the Mobility Elements for the community plan updates for Southeastern San Diego and Encanto. These community plan updates required a fully multi-modal approach

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Monique Chen, P.E. (continued)

with strong emphasis on non-motorized direction for achieving a truly multi-modal transportation. Chen Ryan Associates completed transportation system that serves all Santee pedestrian/ bicycle/transit/auto Level of Service community residents. This update effort will analyses along the major urban streets within the provide the opportunity to review existing communities. We worked extensively with the conditions and past accomplishments and City’s collision database to document locational refocus efforts to effectively plan a balanced trends in pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular mobility system for Santee’s future. The updated collisions. circulation element will set forth goals, policies, and strategies that promote efficient and safe use National City Division Street Road Diet PS&E, of existing and planned transportation facilities to City of National City, CA: Ms. Chen is serving meet the current and future transportation needs as the Principal-in-Charge in preparation of the of Santee. design plans for Division Street in the City of National City. The project entails 100% PS&E, construction management, and design support during construction along an approximately one mile corridor between Highland Avenue and Euclid Avenue. Based on existing traffic volumes and future projections, the project proposes to implement a road diet reducing the corridor from four travel lanes, to three, which will provide for the installation of Class II buffered bike lanes, while retaining the existing center turn-lane and on-street parking. The project would also provide high visibility crosswalks, ADA accessible ramps, and the construction of an offset crosswalk, median refuge and enhanced pedestrian crossing adjacent to Rancho De La Nacion Elementary School.

Vista Traffic Engineering On-Call, City of Vista, CA: Over the past ten plus years, Ms. Chen has assisted the City of Vista in a variety of traffic engineering and transportation planning assessments. Assignments have included traffic impact analyses of new development proposals, fair share of contribution analyses for project mitigation requirements, roadway speed studies, parking assessments, roadway operational and circulation studies. Freeway assessments of SR- 78 and impacts to the various interchange ramps have often been a focus of the required analyses. As the Project Manager, Ms. Chen led this work with the City as a trusted and reliable resource.

Santee Circulation Element Update & EIR, City of Santee, CA: Ms. Chen served as the Project Manager for the City of Santee’s Circulation Element Update. The updated Circulation Element will identify the future vision and key

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Andrew Prescott GP Mobility Element

Firm Mr. Prescott has over four years of experience as a practicing Chen Ryan Associates transportation planner. He contributes to a wide range of mobility projects, including corridor studies, circulation/mobility Education elements, parking studies, transportation impact studies, active Master of City Planning (MCP), transportation plans, and health related research. He regularly San Diego State University, 2014 serves as the primary author for key project deliverables and Bachelor of Arts, International conducts a variety of planning level analyses. Mr. Prescott has Security & Conflict Resolution, served as project manager on corridor studies, site analyses, San Diego State University, 2010 and transportation impact studies in support of environmental documentation. Andrew has contributed to the development of Registrations/Certifications policies supporting improved multimodal transportation safety. Mr. Text Prescott stays current with industry trends through his involvement with the American Planning Associates (APA). Professional Affiliations American Planning Association Areas of Expertise (APA) Transportation Planning • Active Transportation Planning • Corridor Studies • Policy • Mobility Elements • Data Collection & Analysis Years of Experience • GIS • Research • Community Outreach • Transportation Impact 4 Studies References Mr. Brad Richter, Assistant Vice PROJECT EXPERIENCE President of Planning Civic San Diego Downtown San Diego Mobility Plan & EIR, Civic San Diego: [email protected] Mr. Prescott assisted with preparation of the Downtown San 619-533-7115 Diego Mobility Plan and accompanying technical analysis for the supporting environmental documentation. The Downtown San Mr. Tanner French Diego Mobility Plan identifies a multi-modal mobility network and Associate Traffic Engineer, City establishing policies, programs and projects to improve overall of San Diego mobility throughout Downtown San Diego. The preferred bicycle (619) 236-6576 network relies heavily on one- and two-way cycle tracks, providing [email protected] multiple opportunities for cyclists to traverse the community along protected bicycle facilities in north-south and east-west directions. Mr. Prescott was responsible for conducting existing conditions analyses, public outreach, and was one of the primary authors of the final document.

Midway/Pacific Highway and Old Town Mobility Element Updates and TIS, City of San Diego, CA: Mr. Prescott is assisting the City of San Diego with the Midway/Pacific Highway and Old Town Mobility Element Updates. Chen Ryan Associates is responsible for delivering the future conditions analysis for both communities. Mr. Prescott is assisting with the technical analyses for both communities, taking into account pedestrian, bicycle, transit and vehicular modes, as well as parking. The project will result in a set of mobility recommendations to address vehicular

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capacity deficiencies and improvements to the cycle tracks, curb bulb-outs, lead pedestrian multimodal transportation networks. Mr. Prescott interval signals, pedestrian hybrid beacons, and is also assisting with preparation of conceptual high visibility crosswalks. These improvements streetscape designs, planning-level cost are intended to create an environment that is estimates and an implementation strategy. more safe and comfortable for all modes of travel.

Indio Mobility Element Update and EIR | City of Indio, CA: Mr. Prescott served as transportation planner in preparation of the Mobility Element for the City of Indio’s General Plan Update. Working with input from community members, City staff, and other key stakeholders, the Mobility Element identifies a future vision and implementation plan that is reflective of existing transportation related issues and anticipates future needs for the next 20 to 30 years. The Mobility Element took a holistic approach, addressing the needs of users of all transportation modes, with an added emphasis on improving bicycle and pedestrian mobility, especially around schools, parks and other key trip attracting land uses. Indio is unique in that it experiences varying population levels throughout the year, attracting more residents during the winter months, as well as an influx of tourists during the spring and summer months due to the City’s many festivals. The Mobility Element Update was prepared to address the shifting demand placed on the transportation network, ensuring access to key destinations is not hampered by population increases.

Palm Avenue Revitalization Plan | City of San Diego, CA: The Palm Avenue Revitalization Plan is a long-range planning document that provides a blueprint for promoting economic development and improving pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and vehicular mobility along a six-lane roadway with current traffic volumes exceeding 60,000 ADT. The plan identifies specific mobility improvements for each travel mode, and serves to guide future urban design and streetscape improvements along the corridor. Mr. Prescott contributed to all project phases including an extensive existing conditions analysis that utilized a pedestrian environmental quality index (PEQI) to assess pedestrian facilities, and a bicycle level of traffic stress (LTS) to assess the bicycle environment. The analysis results informed the development of preferred improvements consisting of raised

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Jane Fidman, LEEP AP Public Engagement

Firm Jane Fidman is a Planner with a special interest in complex AECOM urban challenges, mobility, open space planning, climate change and community outreach. Ms. Fidman has the ability to clearly Education communicate to large and diverse audiences. Her unique Master of Landscape background in economics, planning and landscape architecture Architecture (MLA), University of make her a dynamic and versatile team member. Edinburgh, Scotland 2015 BA, Economics, Roosevelt Through her outreach experience and previous work as a corporate University, Chicago 2011 trainer, Ms. Fidman has the ability to clearly communicate to large and diverse audiences. Her public engagement and stakeholder Registrations/Certifications involvement work has included strategy development, public United States Green Building meeting content creation, breakout group facilitation, interactive Council (LEED AP ND) website content development, video content production, online surveys, newsletter creation, and participant surveys. Professional Affiliations Member, American Planning PROJECT EXPERIENCE Association City of Encinitas, Outreach Specialist for Encinitas Rail Corridor Member, San Diego Green Study, Encinitas, CA: Participated in a multi-faceted outreach Building Council effort for the Rail Corridor Vision Study, including soliciting input on Years of Experience key mobility and livability issues during working group meetings. 6 Responsible for assisting with logistics of meetings, planning of future workshops, and the production of outreach materials. References California State Parks, Outreach Specialist for Hungry Valley Claire Hempel, PLA, AICP CUD, State Vehicular Recreation Area General Plan Update, Imperial LEED Green Associate, Principal Beach, CA: Responsible for coordinating a Logistics Plan for a [email protected], series of open house public workshops throughout Southern 512-647-2371 California. Participated in soliciting key input on recreation desires for this large state park. Assisted with facilitation of the open house Leigh Kyle, RLA, ALSA, Principal workshops. [email protected] 619.681.0090 x 123 San Diego County Office of Emergency Services,Author of Public Access Plan for Sycamore Canyon/Goodan Ranch, San Diego, CA: Author of the Sycamore Canyon/Goodan Ranch Preserve Public Access Plan. Responsible for analyzing existing conditions, researching existing regional and community plans that affect the trails on site, providing new trail alignment recommendations, and coordinating GIS mapping. Planned and led a stakeholder meeting to solicit input.

Port of San Diego, Assistant Project Manager for Angler Counts at Imperial Beach Pier, Imperial Beach, CA: Assistant project manager for Angler Counts at Imperial Pier. Organized and conducted angler counts on the Pier, utilizing GIS to track locations of anglers and produce maps.

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Austin Parks and Recreation Department, Outreach Specialist and Planner for the Lamar Beach Master Plan, Austin, TX: Planner and outreach specialist on the Lamar Beach master plan that analyzed six alternatives for a large downtown Austin park. Responsible for creating content for three public workshops and utilizing online survey tools to encourage community participation. [Prior to AECOM]

University of California, Riverside, Mobility Study, Riverside, CA: Collaborated with a small team to propose campus mobility improvements for the UC Riverside campus. These improvements included an expanded bike network, enhanced pedestrian circulation, and street configurations. The final deliverable included several options for the university to implement based on budget. [Prior to AECOM]

Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, Houston Arboretum and Nature Center Restoration, Houston, TX: Designer working on a cross-disciplinary team to envision creative planting strategies for restoring an overgrown forest landscape into its native prairie and savanna form. Directly involved in the planting design approach as well as the production of technical documents. Additionally, coordinated with the Sustainable SITES Initiative to produce documentation outlining the project’s qualifications for becoming a SITES-certified landscape. [Prior to AECOM]

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Jessica Sisco, AICP, IAP2 Public Engagement

Firm Jessica Sisco is a Senior Planner with a special emphasis on AECOM climate change, environmental science, and stakeholder engagement and facilitation. Ms. Sisco has the ability to clearly Education communicate complex technical information to diverse audiences Master of Urban and Regional and to build consensus. Planning (MURP), University of California, Irvine, 2009 Ms. Sisco has led collaborative processes with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), U.S. Fish and Wildlife BA, Environmental Sciences, Service (USFWS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Regional University of California, Berkeley, Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB), and the East Bay Regional 1998 Park District to develop long-term management plans for open Registrations/Certifications space and natural resources. She has also worked on a broad American Institute of Certified range of projects, including Climate Action Plans, General Plans, Planners (AICP) Zoning Codes, Open Space Management Plans, Resource Management Plans, and Transit Plans. International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Her stakeholder involvement and facilitation work has included strategy development, public meeting planning and facilitation, Professional Affiliations consensus-building among regulatory agencies and interest Member, International groups, negotiation and mediation, stakeholder engagement and Association of Public interviews, focus group facilitation, committee facilitation, public Participation (IAP2) participation training for agencies, interactive website content Member, American Planning development, online surveys, fact sheet and newsletter Association development, and participant surveys. Years of Experience 17 PROJECT EXPERIENCE

References City of Oceanside Subarea Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Virginia Mendoza, Senior Community Conservation Plan: As project manager, Ms. Sisco Transportation Planner provides as-needed support to the City of Oceanside associated Imperial County Transportation with the City’s work on the their Subarea Habitat Conservation Commission Plan/Natural Community Conservation Plan (SAP). Work includes [email protected] tasks such as mapping and evaluation, assessment of properties 760-592-4494 for biological value and potential contributions to preserve function, data updates, technical support at City Council briefings Manjeet Ranu, Acting Director of and/or public workshops, and strategic recommendations for Planning & Building for the City moving forward with the SAP, among other items. of Encinitas* (Note: has since left the City of Encinitas and current contact Public Outreach Manager for the City of Encinitas Coastal information is as follows) Mobility and Livability Study/Rail Corridor Vision Study: Ms. Director of Planning and Sisco collaborated with the City to develop a comprehensive and Development Services innovative public outreach program for the Coastal Mobility and City of Tucson Livability Study, which encompasses the Rail Corridor Vision [email protected] 858-869-7190

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Jessica Sisco, AICP, IAP2 (continued)

Study, the Active Transportation Plan, and the College, San Diego State University – Brawley, Downtown Parking Study. and San Diego State University – Calexico). These improvements may include creating a new County of San Diego - Facilitation Manager for transit service that serves the three colleges the County of San Diego Multiple Species and/or leveraging existing bus service. Conservation Plan (MSCP) – North County Plan: Innovative outreach methods geared toward Ms. Sisco is assisting the County with facilitation college students include text surveys via of negotiations to finalize the draft MSCP North Textizen, pop up workshops, and booths at County Plan. Responsibilities involve providing college events. strategic direction to the County, facilitation of contentious meetings, and recommendations for Little Saigon Vision Plan Outreach, San Diego, revisions and updates to the draft Plan. CA: Working in collaboration with social scientists and landscape architects, the AECOM Public Outreach Program for the California community outreach team developed innovative Department of Parks and Recreation, Ocotillo outreach techniques to encourage meaningful Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area General community input on the future of the Little Plan: As public participation manager, Ms. Sisco Saigon District. These techniques included collaborated with California State Parks to design “on-the-street” outreach soliciting community a stakeholder-driven public participation input at the Lunar New Year Festival and a program whereby issues and ideas voiced by participatory photography workshop series that community members will guide project research, gave the community an opportunity to use alternatives analysis, and recommendations. photographs to identify positive aspects of the This program includes a visitor survey, neighborhood and aspects of the neighborhood stakeholder interviews, public workshops, fact that could be improved. The APA Award-winning sheets, and an interactive project website with Little Saigon Vision Plan provides a series of opportunities for online input. design recommendations that establish an authentic and vibrant streetscape experience. Bilingual Community Outreach Manager for the This Plan explores how social and cultural Imperial County Transportation Commission influences manifest through design; culminating (ICTC) Pedestrian and Bicycle Border in a set of recommendations that create a Transportation Access Study: Ms. Sisco distinct identity for the Little Saigon District. collaborated with ICTC and U.S. and Mexico partner agencies to develop and implement a Bilingual Public Education and Engagement public involvement strategy that would assist Program for Dona Ana County, NM: Ms. Sisco is with improving circulation of pedestrians, managing a three-year education and bicycles, and transit services and facilities, while engagement process for a regional planning benefiting community health and quality of life. project in Dona Ana County, NM. Key planning The community outreach program included a issues in the U.S.-Mexico border region include bi-national and bilingual Agency Working Group, dispersed, rural development patterns, very low focus groups, public workshops, an eAudit online transit use, and challenges in engaging input tool, and a project webpage. traditionally underserved groups (such as low income populations, monolingual Spanish Stakeholder Engagement Manager for the speakers, elderly populations). This program SCAG/Imperial County Transportation includes public engagement training for County Commission (ICTC)Imperial Valley College/San staff and consultants, oversight of public Diego State University Transit Study: The participation activities carried out by County. purpose of this study is to recommend improvements to transit access to three college campuses in the Imperial Valley (Imperial Valley

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Christina Babla, AIA, AICP, LEED AP Implementation Plan

Firm Christine Babla has over 18 years of experience in urban design AECOM and planning. Her project experience includes community plans, master plans, streetscape design, design guidelines, form-based Education codes, and development of feasibility studies, with a special Master of Architecture in emphasis on smart growth, TOD, and sustainable design. She is Urban Design (MAUD), Harvard recognized for her skill in bringing together a variety of disciplines University Graduate School of and stakeholders to establish a distinctive community vision, Design (GSD), Cambridge, MA and translating that vision into concise, graphic and user-friendly Bachelor of Architecture, Illinois regulatory documents. Ms. Babla is the recipient of numerous Institute of Technology (IIT) awards, including an APA California Chapter Award of Merit, an APA Chicago, IL Los Angeles Comprehensive Plan Award (Large Jurisdiction), and two Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) awards for planning and Registrations/Certifications urban design. Licensed Architect, State of Illinois #001.020879 PROJECT EXPERIENCE National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) City of Imperial Beach Commercial/Mixed-Use Implementation American Institute of Certified Plan Review, Imperial Beach, CA: Project manager and senior Planners (AICP) urban designer, responsible for the review of the City of Imperial Beach’s commercial zoning and mixed-use overlays along the coast LEED Accredited Professional and in other commercial portions of the city, and the development Professional Affiliations of amendments that better achieve the community’s vision. American Institute of Architects [08/2008 – 10/2013, Certified by Coastal Commission 10/2013] (AIA) City of South Gate Gateway District Specific Plan, South Gate, AIA San Diego Chapter Urban CA: Senior urban designer and project manager responsible for the Design Committee development of a Specific Plan to guide development and station American Planning Association area planning at the future South Gate Transit Station. Working (APA) closely with the City of South Gate, SCAG, and Eco-Rapid Transit, American Institute of Certified the project will develop an implementing strategy for coordinated Planners (AICP) design, planning, and public realm improvements in the District. Urban Land Institute (ULI) [10/2016 – Ongoing] Years of Experience Sorrento Valley TOD Feasibility Study, San Diego, CA: Senior 18 urban designer responsible for the evaluation of station location and associated transit-oriented development (TOD) alternatives. References This effort is part of an ongoing study in conjunction with the City of Steve Gerhardt, AICP Senior San Diego Public Works Department, MTS, and SANDAG. [04/2014 Planner, Advance Planning Long – Ongoing] Beach Development Services Port of San Diego Master Plan Update, San Diego, CA: Lead 562-570-6288 planner and primary author, directing a team of community planners, economists, urban designers, coastal policy planners, Alvie Betancourt, Senior Planner, and mobility experts to comprehensively update the Port’s Master City of South Gate Plan. The work program builds upon an extensive stakeholder and [email protected] strategic visioning process, with the intent of developing a modern, 323-563-9526

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streamlined Port Master Plan document to meet city-wide zoning ordinance. Key issues include Coastal Act requirements as well as facilitate translating the City’s General Plan concepts for future project implementation. The updated Plan placemaking, transit oriented development, and includes refined land and water uses as well as urban infill within key districts and corridors, while Baywide and District-level policies to increase addressing transitions to existing single family and improve coastal access and recreation neighborhoods. [04/2012 – 4/2015, Adopted opportunities consistent with the District’s goals. 5/2015] A unique aspect of this effort was developing a dynamic model to analyze, plan, and evaluate Midway and Old Town San Diego Community physical planning opportunities in conjunction Plan Updates, San Diego, CA: Senior urban with economic absorption, for each of the designer responsible for the overall urban design, Districts ten Planning Districts. planning, and public outreach for two parallel community plan updates in central San Diego. Palm Avenue Revitalization Plan, San Diego, Major issues include strategies for infill and transit CA: Senior urban designer and project manager oriented development, improving pedestrian responsible for the creation of a revitalization plan access, bicycle access, and walkability, as well as for Palm Avenue, in a joint effort with the City of historic preservation. [01/2011 – Ongoing] San Diego and Caltrans. Working closely with the community, the project will develop a strategy City of Long Beach Downtown Plan, Long for implementing complete streets along this Beach, CA: Senior urban designer and project historically auto-oriented corridor, incorporating manager responsible for the overall project bike lanes, transit access improvements, management and urban design for the Downtown pedestrian crossings, new signage and lighting, Plan. The community plan document integrates and improved landscape and streetscape. a revised planned development ordinance with [04/2015 – 04/2016] form-based zoning, development standards, and design guidelines to achieve a user-friendly SCAG Western Avenue Corridor Street guide for revitalization of the downtown area. The Enhancement Strategy, Cities of Rancho Palos framework for development in the Downtown Verdes and Los Angeles, CA: Senior urban focuses growth and density near transit, while designer and project manager responsible for the ensuring transition areas to the surrounding creation of a coordinated street enhancement communities. A graphic approach to design strategy for this two mile corridor, as part of a joint guidelines and standards are provided to effort with the Cities of Rancho Palos Verdes, Los illustrate key components of a pedestrian-friendly Angeles, SCAG, and Caltrans. Working closely downtown, including topics such as building with the communities and key stakeholders, massing, mixed-use development, and the the project will transform a historically auto- design of street frontage and streetscape. The oriented corridor, with new pedestrian-oriented Downtown Plan is the recipient of the 2013 APA development, streetscape improvements, and a Los Angeles Section, Comprehensive Plan Award phased approach to complete streets integrating for Large Jurisdiction, and a 2013 APA California the needs of all users (bicycle, auto, pedestrian, Chapter Award of Merit. [02/2009 – 01/2012, and transit). This project is the second phase Adopted 01/2012] of the Western Avenue Vision Plan, also led by AECOM. [06/2014 – 12/2015, Approved by RPV City Council 12/2015]

City of South Gate Form-Based Zoning Ordinance, South Gate, CA: Senior urban designer and project manager responsible for the development of a form-based code for all urban zones, as well as a comprehensive update of the

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PRINCIPAL-IN-CHARGE SENIOR ADVISOR Yara Fisher, AICP Claire Bonham-Carter, LEEP AP

PROJECT MANAGER Nancy Bragado

DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER Ryan Wiggins

PROJECT TEAM

LCP/GP Policy Climate Action Plan Cost-Benefit Analysis Nancy Bragado Jason Paukovits Aaron McGregor Leslea Meyerhoff, AICP (Summit)* Ryan Wiggins Patricia Anders Paola Peña Public Engagement Jessica Sisco, AICP, IAP2 Implementation Plan Mobility/Transportation Jane Fidman, LEED AP Christine Babla, AIA, AICP, LEED AP Monique Chen, P.E. (CRA)* Ryan Wiggins Environmental Specialists Sea Level Rise Andrew Prescott (CRA)* Krista Ellis, AEP Darryl Hatheway, CFM Justin Vandever

*Subconsultants:

• Summit Environmental Group • Chen Ryan Associates (CRA)

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VI.Insurance Coverage

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AECOM’s Insurance Summary is as follows: Professional Liability: Certificates of Insurance are available upon Carrier: Illinois Union Insurance Company (AM request. Best rating: A+ XV) General Liability Policy Period: 4/1/16 - 4/1/17 Limits: In excess of $2,000,000 per claim/ Carrier: Zurich American Insurance Company aggregate (AM Best rating: A+ XV) Policy Period: 4/1/16 - 4/1/17 Limits: In excess of $10,000,000 per Broker for the above coverages: occurrence/$10,000,000 general aggregate Marsh Risk and Insurance Services, Inc. 777 S. Figueroa Street Automobile Liability Los Angeles, California 90017 (213) 346-5620 Carrier: Zurich American Insurance Company (AM Best rating: A+ XV) Policy Period: 4/1/16 - 4/1/17 Workers Compensation/Employers Liability Limits: In excess of $5,000,000 CSL Carrier: AIG (AM Best rating: A XV) Policy Period: 1/1/17 - 1/1/18 Umbrella Liability Limits: Statutory/$2,000,000 Carrier: National Union Fire Insurance Company (AIG), Inc. (AM Best rating: A XV) Broker for the above coverage: Policy Period: 4/1/16 - 4/1/17 Lockton Companies, LLC Limits: In excess of $1,000,000 19800 MacArthur Boulevard, Suite 550 Irvine, CA 92612 (949) 252-4400

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Refer to the Schedule of Rates that has been submitted separately in a sealed envelope that accompanies this proposal, as requested in the RFP.

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