Stuart Sirota Lead Facilitator

Stuart Sirota is principal of TND Planning Group, a Baltimore-based consulting practice focusing on traditional town planning, urban revitalization, and sustainable transportation planning. Stuart’s work focuses on “place-making” - the art of creating and restoring walkable, human-scale built environments. He assists a wide range of clients, including public sector, private sector, and non-profit groups, in making their communities more livable and sustainable through the application of place-making principles. Stuart’s work is both regional and national in scope, and occurs within contexts that range from the most urban to the most rural.

In 2003, Stuart was recognized for his collaborative and holistic approach to planning by being awarded a Knight Fellowship at the University of Miami School of Architecture’s Knight Program in Community Building . The Knight Fellowship brings together a distinguished group of mid-career professionals to advance the state of the art in place-based community planning. An important tool in this emerging discipline is the charrette, which Stuart has extensive experience in conducting and participating. He also holds certification from the National Charrette Institute as a Charrette Planner and Public Meeting Facilitator.

Barry Mahaffey Senior Land Planner

Barry Mahaffey is a Senior Land Planner with Rettew Associates, Inc. and has over 14 years of experience in the field of New Urbanism. Mr. Mahaffey has extensive experience in design charrettes in both public and private sectors as charrette facilitator, designer and coordinator and has received numerous national and international design awards for architecture and urbanism. Mr. Mahaffey is a lead designer in the Town Planning Group focusing on mixed-use and tranist oriented master planning, conceptual architecture, form based coding and architectual illustration working in greenfield, infill and urban environments.

Randall Gross Market Analyst

Randall Gross is a specialist in local economic development. He has worked closely with communities in the United States and other countries on strategies for job creation and entrepreneurship, industrial targeting, and overall economic development. He analyzes economic strengths and identifies potential industries for target marketing. He identifies community assets and determines incentives for re-investment. He also identifies appropriate redevelopment projects and determines their market potential and financial feasibility.

He helps communities integrate issues related to housing, commercial revitalization, industrial redevelopment, fiscal stability, job security and training. Mr. Gross also provides economic development training in the U.S. and abroad.

Shaun Barattia Urban Designer

Mr. Barattia has studied architecture and urban design in 11 different countries. He was the recipient of the Penn State Rome Award and acquired an internship at The American University in Rome , Italy , where he worked in the Integrated Arts Department. He spent one year in Turin , Italy working professionally for an international engineering consulting firm providing design services for the 2006 Winter Olympics. He also designed public projects involving urban plazas, waterfront parks, and sports facilities in New York City .  

In his current position with Rettew, Shaun provides conceptual and comprehensive planning and design for various land planning projects. He has participated in charrettes providing “ Smart Growth ” design concepts and alternatives to conventional design. He has successfully incorporated his expertise in Landscape Design into Land Development projects including: Greenfield , Infill, Corridor Studies, and Brownfield sites.

Kathy Poole, ASLA Urban Ecologist

Kathy Poole is the principal of Baltimore-based POOLE DESIGN, LLC, Landscape Architecture • Ecological Infrastructure • Urban Design. She a registered landscape architect in several states and CLARB record holder. Through her twenty years of collegiate teaching and professional practice, Ms. Poole has developed a national reputation for her ecological design inquiry, expertise, and passion. Her specialty is integrating ecology and design toward projects that both regenerate ecological systems and connect people to landscapes in engaging and beautiful ways. Her design work is award winning and critically acclaimed, and her essays and designs have been published at home and abroad. Her range of projects includes numerous master plan types, new towns, new urbanist developments, urban and suburban parks, farms, large residential gardens, acid mine drainage sites, urban redevelopment, health care complexes, transportation routes, and water utilities. The majority of Ms. Poole’s work occurs collaboratively, most often with multidisciplinary teams of architects, planners, and a range of engineers. She works nationwide on projects ranging from building-specific projects to New Urbanist work of 350 acres to 56,000 acres.

Ms. Poole developed her joy for making at Clemson University while fulfilling an architecture degree. She completed her Master of Landscape Architecture degree at Harvard University ’s Graduate School of Design, garnering the department’s top honor, the Charles Eliot Award, along with one of the University’s top fellowships, the Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship. Her experience in the academy includes eight and a half years teaching, mostly at the graduate level. She was the recipient of two teaching fellowships and numerous grants, most notably from the Graham Foundation and the Landscape Architecture Foundation. In her academic career, she was a fellow at the University of Virginia ’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, researching and communicating the significance of the Back Bay Fens as a civic infrastructure exemplar. Upon returning to professional practice, she was a fellow at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Lincoln City , Oregon (2004-05). In addition to her essays and professional practice work, Ms. Poole has been a part of two nationwide exhibitions: Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed/Nature Revealed, one of 12 invited exhibitors and The Life of Water, a solo show exploring water in its multiple states and its representation.

A popular speaker, Ms. Poole has been invited to lecture at over a dozen universities and numerous conferences, among them US Green Building Council’s Greenbuild, American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Meetings, Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Society for Collegiate and University Planning. She has also participated on several advisory panels, including the Mayor’s Institute on City Design, the South Carolina Mayor’s Institute, and the Urban Open Space Leadership Institute (John S. and James L. Knight Foundation).

Richard A. Hall, P.E. Transportation Engineer

Rick Hall is a practicing, registered transportation engineer and for 10 years, President of Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc. After earning his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech, he worked for the Florida DOT in Urban Transportation MPO planning.

After becoming a consultant, Mr. Hall completed a variety of projects including urban transportation plans, hurricane evacuation studies and development impact studies. He assisted in the development of Seaside by performing traffic analysis and subsequent parking and traffic circulation analyses. He has provided transportation services to some of the nation’s leading New Urbanism firms, including over 75 TND project charrettes yielding 30 new or revitalized, livable communities. He is committed to establishing the neighborhood context before transportation design is undertaken.

Mr. Hall served as a visiting professor at Florida State University ’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning where he taught land use and transportation. He served as President of the ITE Florida Section, and is Vice Chairman of the Florida Chapter, Congress for the New Urbanism. He is part of the ITE/CNU team initiating a major street design manual.

John Moynahan Urban Designer

Mr. Moynahan is a senior planner and urban designer and has contributed immensely in the design of numerous and successful master plans, traditional neighborhood developments, transit oriented developments, urban and neighborhood revitalization plans, Code Books, landscape studies and urban open spaces throughout the United States and abroad. Mr. Moynahan has received national awards for site design sensitivity and environmental design for projects both designed and constructed. Mr. Moynahan is most adept at conceptualizing community sensitive plan solutions and generating quick, thoughtful, and creative plans, illustrations, and freehand visualizations. Mr. Moynahan has participated in numerous pubic planning and design charrettes including Port Royal Waterfront, Shady Grove Transit Village , Twinbrook Transit Village , Elizabeth Park, Brentwood Village , Westminster , Frederick East Street Corridor, Enloe Medical Center in Chico , California , Riverside Drive in Sydney and several others. John’s work has been published in numerous journals including Landscape Architecture and Landscape Australia .

Brian Hendrickson Architecht

Brian Hendrickson is 180º Design Studio’s Principal Architect, and a specialist in Traditional Neighborhood Design. Offering regional responses to both urban design and architectural design projects has been the focus of Mr. Hendrickson’s career. His experiences include design work in over a dozen states, and work with the New Urban Guild of architects.

With a background in urban design (he is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism since 1997), and more than 15 years of experience in educational, residential, commercial and retail architecture,Mr. Hendrickson brings creative vision and proven expertise to 180° Design Studio's TND projects.

Additionally, Brian volunteers for the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, and sits on the board of Neighborhood Housing Services of Kansas City. He has been a featured speaker for the Mid America Regional Council and the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City. He is a proud father of 3 girls.

Kevin Klinkenberg Urban Designer

Kevin Klinkenberg has dedicated his career to the building of great places. A Fellow with the Knight Program in CommunityBuilding through the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation, and a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) since 1997, he seeks practical applications for TND techniques in projects of all scales, from individual sites to neighborhoods to entire regions.

With 15 years of professional experience, including participation on charrettes with many of the founders of the CNU, Mr. Klinkenberg has become a regional authority on planning and urban design, sitting on committees for the Mid America Regional Council, the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City, and the Housing Choices Coalition. He is a frequent speaker on urban design, and in 2003 wrote a column for the Kansas City Star under "Midwest Voices". His volunteer activities include serving on the board of CUBE (Center for Understanding the Built Environment), the Urban Society of Kansas City and the Valentine Neighborhood Association. Kevin is also involved with setting new standards for context-sensitive transportation policy through the CNU.

Dan Jarrell

Dan Jarrell commits himself to designing and building communities that are timeless.  As an architect and planner for 180 Degrees Design Studio in Kansas City, Missouri, Dan concentrates on translating preliminary design ideas into a built reality that creates a recognizable place.  From measuring and documenting existing successful development patterns to designing new neighborhoods and homes, Dan's work is evident in almost every project since joining 180 Degrees in 2001.

Dan has been involved with the creation of numerous traditional neighborhoods both in Kansas City and around the country.  With extensive residential and urban design experience, Dan holds degrees in both Architecture and Civil Engineering.  From design charrette to in-house design and implementation, Dan seeks to bridge the various professions and phases of design and construction.