MRSC has joined with Phil Olbrechts, Attorney, Ogden Murphy Wallace, Mark Hinshaw, Director of Urban Design, LMN Architects, Pat Dugan, Dugan Consulting Services, and Arthur Sullivan, Program Manager of ARCH (A Regional Coalition for Housing), to bring you the "Planning Advisor" article series on planning and growth management issue affecting Washington Local Governments. The "Planning Advisor" will feature a new article each month with timely information and advice you can use.*

This page contains the current and all previous Planning Advisor articles:

• Shaping Growth: Using Capital Facilities to Implement Comprehensive Plans, By Pat Dugan, Dugan Consulting Services, April 2008
• Recent Trends in State Legislation Affecting Affordable Housing, By Arthur Sullivan, Program Manager, ARCH, February 2008
• Time is Money, By Phil Olbrechts, Attorney, Ogden Murphy Wallace, October 2007
• The Capital Facilities Balancing Act, By Pat Dugan, Dugan Consulting Services, October 2007
• Urban Renewal - Part 2: Public Sector Investments / Private Sector Response, By Mark Hinshaw, Director of Urban Design, LMN Architects, June 2007
• The Third Promise of the Growth Management Act, By Pat Dugan, Dugan Consulting Services, April 2007
• Land Use Hamlet: Hearing or not a Hearing?, By Phil Olbrechts, Attorney, Ogden Murphy Wallace, March 2007
• Urban Renewal - Part 1: Painful Lessons and Failed Experiments, By Mark Hinshaw, Director of Urban Design, LMN Architects, January 2007

Mark Hinshaw has over 32 years experience as an architect, city planner, and urban designer. He has provided urban design and community planning services to local governments, prepared master plans for public facilities, developed design guidelines and streetscape improvements for public agencies, and created comprehensive commercial district plans.

Pat Dugan has a unique combination of experience in both planning and public finance, spanning 35 years. As a planner, he has been a planning director in two cities (Auburn and Burien), and two regional planning agencies in Oregon and Washington; and was a planning manager in Goleta, California. In public finance, Pat has served as the chief financial officer in four public agencies including the Cities of Auburn and Lynnwood, and the Snohomish County Public Works Department. He has written extensively on financing capital facility programs and on public finance for planners. Pat now offers planning and public finance consulting services and in his own firm, Dugan Consulting Services in Everett and can be reached at consult.dugan@verizon.net.

Phil Olbrechts is a member (similar to partner) and elected member of the board of directors of Ogden, Murphy, Wallace, LLC. Phil focuses his practice on land use law and currently represents seven municipalities as either City Attorney or Hearing Examiner. He has taught over a dozen credits of land use law at the University of Washington, has taught numerous land use continuing legal education courses and has made over 200 land use presentations to elected and appointed officials throughout Washington State. Phil has served on the Seattle Planning Commission and in the past served as the Planning Director for two municipalities.

Arthur Sullivan is the Program Manager of ARCH (A Regional Coalition for Housing). ARCH is a coalition of 16 public jurisdictions located in East King County. Its purpose is to facilitate efforts of public jurisdictions to create a full range of housing, with an emphasis on affordable housing. In 2004 ARCH was the winner of the inaugural Ash Institute / Fannie Mae Foundation Innovations in American Government Award in Affordable Housing. Previously Arthur was a Senior Manager at BRIDGE Housing and planner for Environmental Impact Planning. He holds a B.A. in Planning from the University of Washington, and a Master of Planning from UC, Berkeley.

*The Articles appearing in the "Planning Advisor" column represent the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Municipal Research & Services Center.