2009 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 13-member 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.

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, LLC
Development finance - One private finance member, one public finance member	Vacant Ken Johnson (public finance), Former President and CEO, St. Paul Port Authority
Development - One new development member, one redevelopment member	Don Jensen (new development), DM Breckenridge Properties LLC 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, Gina Bonsignore Landscape Architecture LLC (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, 1000 Friends of Minnesota, Community Outreach and Education Coordinator (urban design)

Metropolitan Council

2009 Livable Communities Advisory Committee (LCAC)

Appointment

Member