Project Manager Development
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Joanne Garnett has over ** years of professional planning
experience in the public and private sector with experience relating
to urban, rural, and regional planning issues. She has specialized in
assisting local governments with short term and targeted planning
needs including review and consolidation of planning documents into
strategic, implementable executive summaries; guidance and advice
to local governments in ongoing current planning activities;
comprehensive plan development assistance and public outreach
support. She is a past president of both the American Institute of
Certified Planners and the American Planning Association and served
the planning profession in many other roles at the local, chapter and
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national levels. Joanne routinely speaks at national, regional and
FAICP
state planning conferences and provides planning commissioner
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training seminars. When she is not busy with work, Joanne volunteers
her time and resources in countries around the world.
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
34
PROJECT EXAMPLES
Project manager, Master Plan, City of Lander, WY
EDUCATION Principal Planner, Comprehensive Plan and Code Update, City of
Master of Urban and North Platte, NE
Regional Planning, Senior Planner, Comprehensive Plan Development and Draft
University of Oregon Review, City of Casper, WY
Principal Planner, Fox Farm Road Corridor Study, Cheyenne MPO,
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology,
WY
Fairleigh Dickinson University
EXPERIENCE
AFFILIATIONS AND
EXPERIENCE
CERTIFICATIONS
Partner, Orion Planning Group
American Planning
Association, Past President Sheridan, Wyoming 2010 - Ongoing
American Institute of Full service planning firm including comprehensive planning, housing,
Certified Planners, Fellow, transportation, planning process, and urban design. Work examples
Past President include comprehensive plan development and public outreach, City
of North Platte, Nebraska; project manager, City Master Plan, Lander,
Western Central Chapter of
Wyoming; team member for downtown development plan update,
APA
Laramie, Wyoming.
Wyoming Planning
Principal, Jovi Plans
Association
Sheridan, Wyoming 2009 2011
Montana Association of
Sole proprietor firm that specializes in assisting local governments with
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their short term and targeted planning needs. The type of work
Leadership Wyoming, Class performed includes comprehensive plans, review and analysis of land
of 2002 use regulations and policies, planning staff assistance, strategic plans,
and special studies. Examples of work that have been conducted are
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the review and consolidation of planning documents into strategic,
Accreditation Board, 1998-
implementable executive summaries for the City of Sheridan,
2006
Wyoming; guidance and advice to local governments in ongoing
current planning activities; comprehensive plan development
assistance and public outreach support, City of Casper, Wyoming;
review and analysis of land use regulations for cities and counties.
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Senior Planner, WLC Engineering Surveying & Planning, Casper,
Wyoming 2003 - 2009
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Responsible for strategic and community plan preparation for
Wyoming Council for the
several Wyoming towns; land use plan and staff assistance for
Humanities, Board of
Carbon County, Wyoming; draft wind farm regulations for
Directors
Carbon County; Assistant Director, Wyoming Tomorrow public-
Downtown Sheridan private partnership for statewide planning initiative;
Association, Board of comprehensive plan development for City of Buffalo, Wyoming;
Directors affordable housing study, Lincoln County, Wyoming; preparation
of Pinedale Area Pathway Plan; feasibility study for local
Community Outreach Work
Community and Arts Center; environmental assessment for
Group, Sheridan Community
Marbleton, Wyoming senior housing and bus barn
Land Trust
Director, Planning and Zoning, Sublette County, Wyoming 1997 - 2003
Cape Town, South Africa,
Cross Cultural Solutions, 2007
Administered rural county planning activities for County Planning
Bagamoyo, Tanzania, Cross and Zoning Commission and Board of County Commissioners;
Cultural Solutions, 2008 handling citizen requests for information regarding land
development; preparation of staff reports regarding land use
Leogane, Haiti, All Hands
requests; county representative for landscape analyses through
Volunteers, 2010
USFS; preparation of environmental review and grant for
Salvador, Brazil, Cross pedestrian and bicycle pathway development; assistance in
Cultural Solutions, 2010 County Master Plan Update; amendment and adoption of
County Resolutions for subdivisions, manufactured housing,
gravel pits, and other items; zoning resolution enforcement;
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review and comment on environmental documents related to
area natural gas development and USFS leased developments.
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Planner, CH2M Hill, Boise, Idaho 1993 1997.
Developed environmental assessments for projects, including
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Boise City Greenbelt path development, grazing use, interstate
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highway interchange redesign, relocation of campus facility, and
airport master plans; prepared environmental and land use
analyses and public involvement coordination for major
investment strategy for traffic congestion mitigation; project
manager for resort community transportation plan; completion of
a river visual resource and recreation study; co-coordinator and
co-author of guidebook for highway corridor planning; facilitation
of public involvement efforts for transportation projects.
Planner III, Ada County Development Services, Boise, Idaho 1991-1993.
Prepared staff reports concerning land use requests and issues
for County Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of
County Commissioners; coordinated Area of City Impact
agreements; county liaison with Technical Advisory
Committee for transportation planning; county representative
on Boise Foothills Steering Committee and Pathways
Committee; coordinated Ada County Historic Preservation
Council and administration of Certified Local Government grant.
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