Mary Vogel's directory listing

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PlanGreen’s services include:, Community planning (4), Context-sensitive solutions, Cultural resource studies, Design and development guidelines, Downtown revitalization/economic development, Form-based coding/Smart Codes, Green Building Program Design—including affordable housing, Growth management studies, High Performance Infrastructure (green streets) planning and program design, Integrated land-use and transportation studies, Landscape/green infrastructure master planning, Neighborhood planning (2), Parks and recreation, Public involvement (1), Regional and multi-jurisdictional planning, Transit-oriented development (2), Transportation enhancements/green streets, Urban design (13), Visioning/strategic assessments/report cards, Visual impact assessment, Waterfront/brownfield redevelopment, Zoning ordinances, (257), Environmental planning (1), NEPA document preparation, Wetland delineation and mitigation, Natural resource surveys, Biological assessments (endangered species and habitat surveys), Wildlife management plans, Cultural resource surveys, Ecological restoration, Flood damage reduction, TMDL implementation planning, (257), (257)

PlanGreen Principal, Mary Vogel, has over 20 years experience in many aspects of land use planning and sustainable community development. Mary seeks to use her background in ecology to integrate the concept of ecosystem services into New Urbanism. To do so, she seeks to partner with other New Urbanist firms on proposals and projects. She is active in the Congress for New Urbanism and the US Green Building Council and is working to blend the best of both groups and push them towards greening our landscapes and our streetscapes as well as our buildings. She is also involved in the Society for Ecological Restoration and its Global Restoration Network. Now that she is back in Portland, OR she plans to become involved in the Urban Greenspaces Institute and the Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium. She has been a member of Native Plant Societies for almost 20 years. Vogel worked with other CNU members on the Gentilly Charrette in New Orleans and continues to participate in the Gentilly and Gulf-Urb listserves. She was the originator of the heralded DC Green Building Act and she helped Montgomery County, MD’s Council to craft the first code in the nation to combine a “Complete and Green Streets” approach to future roads and major reconstruction. Her recent articles for Urban Land magazine include “Moving Toward High Performance Infrastructure” and “Greening Downtown Greens” and two more recent articles on "Greening Waterfront Development." Mary is on the Transportation Task Force of the Congress for New Urbanism where she is active in developing, with the Institute for Transportation Engineers, a Context Sensitive Street Design Manual for thoroughfares—seeking to incorporate green street concepts into standards for street design that incorporate the needs of all users. And she is on the LEED-ND Corresponding Committee of the US Green Building Council—helping to craft LEED for Neighborhood Development.