Livable Communities Advisory Committee (LCAC)

The Livable Communities Advisory Committee (LCAC) reviews and recommends funding awards to the Council under the Livable Communities Demonstration Account. This is a technical review group with broad expertise that reviews complex development and redevelopment proposals against the program's criteria for connected development patterns that link housing, jobs and services. Its 13 members represent and have expertise in development as it relates to local government planning, economic or community development; public and private finance; new development and redevelopment; transportation; environment; and site design.

Appointment	Member
Chair	Ruth Grendahl, Apple Valley (city council member)
Area of Expertise Specified in Committee Bylaws
Local government - Planning, economic or community development (two members)	Janet Jeremiah, Community Development Director, City of Eden Prairie Blair Tremere, Public Affairs Consulting
Development finance - One private finance member, one public finance member	Glen Hardin (private finance), Village Bank, Ramsey Gary Fields (public finance), Development Strategies and Resources
Development - One new development member, one redevelopment member	Don Jensen (new development), Land Development Specialist, RLK Inc. Peggy Lucas (redevelopment), partner, Brighton Development
Transportation - Transportation and development relationship (two members)	James Barton, consultant, transportation and land use Charlene Zimmer, Zan Associates (integration of infrastructure and development)
Environment - Integration of natural and water resources in development (two members)	Regina Bonsignore, landscape architect (ecological systems) Doug Snyder, Exec. Dir., Mississippi Watershed Management Organization
Site design - Architecture, land planning specialty (two members)	Lance Neckar, Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Minnesota Dan Marckel, Center for Sustainable Building Research, University of Minnesota (urban design)

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Livable Communities Advisory Committee (LCAC)