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Nan C. Stolzenburg, AICP CEP:
Nan Stolzenburg is the founder of Community Planning & Environmental Associates and principal consultant. Her career as a planning consultant, built upon a decade of prior work in the wildlife/natural resources field, has significantly contributed to rural community and environmental planning throughout the Hudson Valley and upstate regions of New York State. She concentrates on the unique community and environmental planning needs of small and rural communities by providing comprehensive land use, and environmental planning services. Nan has been inducted as a Fellow, American Institute of Certified Planners and a Certified Environmental Planner (American Institute of Certified Planners). She has achieved the planning profession’s highest honor, being named to the prestigious American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) College of Fellows for her outstanding achievements in rural and environmental planning. Nan has been a practicing professional planner since 1995, and holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Wildlife Biology, and a second Master’s Degree in Regional Planning. She has over 30 years of professional and technical experience in many areas of land use and the environment, with special interests in small town and rural planning, community revitalization, comprehensive planning, and public participation. Her specialty areas include land use planning techniques for rural and small communities, SEQR, open space, environmental and agriculture land use planning, comprehensive plan development, community involvement strategies, and development of zoning and land use regulations. Nan is one of 53 people nationwide to have received the Certified Environmental Planner Advanced Certification in 2011. She has developed many comprehensive and strategic plans for upstate New York communities, some of which have won National and New York State planning awards. She is an expert SEQR practitioner and is much sought after for panel discussions and trainings related to SEQR and environmental review of projects. As a resident of a small, rural community in Schoharie County, Nan understands the unique characteristics and challenges facing rural communities. She assists her husband in the management of their farm located in Schoharie County. Nan was the principal author for New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s SEQR Workbooks – two companion guides to the new SEAF and FEAF forms.These workbooks received the 2014 Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice from the American Planning Association, Upstate New York Chapter. (see http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/6191.html). |
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