What We Do
The Citizen Planner Training Collaborative provides local planning and zoning officials with tools to make effective decisions regarding their community's current and future land use.
- Training workshops delivering a Level I and Level 2 core curriculm, taught across the state by expert attorneys and professonal planners.
- Internet access to core training units, a bylaw collection, many planning related links, and training calendars.
- On-demand training to any community needing to focus on a specific topic.
- Annual conference addressing important land use issues on a more in-depth basis.
CPTC is a member of the Local Capacity Building Partnership - an affiliation of training providers assisting local officals in dealing with land use issues.
Board of Directors
(appointees of signatory organizations)
- University of Massachusetts Extension: Michael DiPasquale
- Mass. Association of Planning Directors: Ralph Willmer
- American Planning Association - Massachusetts:
Kathy Joubert - Citizen Planner Training Collaborative Advisory Board: Bruce Hughes
- Department of Housing and Community Development: Elaine Wijnja
- Mass. Association of Regional Planning Agencies: Chair; Lawrence Adams
Members of the Advisory Board
- Bruce Hughes, Chair; Economic Development Specialist, Old Colony Planning Council
- Heidi Ricci, Senior Policy Analyst, Mass Audubon
- Robert Mitchell, Special Assistant For Sustainable Development,
Office for Commonwealth Development - Alan Pease, Ashby Planning Board
- Douglas Albertson, Town Planner, Belchertown
- Sarah Izatt LaValley, Planner, City of Northampton
Recent CPTC Trainers
Adam Burney
Town Planner, Auburn
planning@town.auburn.ma.us
Alan Seewald, Attorney,
Seewald, Jankowski & Spencer
Angus Jennings, AICP
Director of Land Use Management, Westford
Aviva Rothman-Shore
Project Manager at Conservation Law Foundation
Barbara Saint Andre, Attorney
Petrini and Associates, PC
Bill Reyelt
Smart Growth Program Coordinator
DHCD
Brian Currie, AICP
Town Planner, Falmouth
Catherine Ratte
Senior planner,
Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Donald Dubendorf, Attorney
Elizabeth Lane, Attorney
Kopelman & Paige, PC
Ezra Glenn
Lecturer/Special Assistant, MIT
George Proakis
Glenn Garber, AICP
ggarber@townhall.westwood.ma.us
Gregor McGregor, Attorney,
McGregor & Associates
Joel Russell, Attorney
Joel Bard, Attorney,
Kopelman and Paige, PC
Joseph Peznola, PE
Hancock Associates
jpeznola@hancockassociates.com
Judi Barrett
Communities Opportunities Group
Kathleen McCabe, AICP
Luke Legere, Attorney
McGregor & Associates
Marlene McCollem
Assistant Town Planner, Falmouth
Mike O’Neil, Attorney ,
McGregor & Associates
Miryam Bobadilla
Technical Assistance Program Coordinator, DHCD
Nathaniel Stevens, Attorney
McGregor & Associates
Pam Brown, Attorney, AICP
Brown & Brown
Patricia Cantor, Attorney
Kopelman and Paige, PC
Phillip DeMartino
DHCD
Ralph Willmer
Senior Planner
Vanesse Hangen Brustlin
Robert A. Levite, Attorney
UMass Extension Educator
Robert Mitchell, FAICP
Special Assistant for Planning
Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development
Robert Orsi, Attorney
Orsi, Atone, Rothenberg, Iannuzzi and Rurner, LLP
Robert Ritchie
General Counsel,
Department of Agricultural Resources
Stuart Beckley
City Planner, Easthampton
Todd Blake
Associate at Fort Hill Infrastructure Services, LLC
tblake@forthillinfrastructure.com
Wayne Feiden, FAICP
Director of Planning, Northampton
Wendy Foxmyn
Municipal Consultant
CPTC is jointly supported by UMass Extension and the Dept of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, located at 109 Hills North, UMass Amherst MA 01003 and by the Department of Housing and Community Development, at 617/573-1360, 100 Cambridge Street, 3rd floor, Boston MA
02114
