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,sal for CEQA Peer Review
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<br />Konnie Dobrevo, JD, Vice President of Environmental Planning. Konnie's more than 25 years of public and
<br />private sector planning and legal experience have made her an expert in entitlements, environmental and
<br />policy planning, a keen analyst and an effective writer of environmental documents. She has managed and
<br />prepared environmental documents for a diverse range of projects and clients: small-scale residential and
<br />large planned communities, commercial office, industrial, mixed -use, and schools. In law school, Konnie
<br />specialized in alternative dispute resolution. She clerked for two private law firms and the Thousand Oaks
<br />City Attorney's Office. She was also a full-time extern for the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson, 9th Circuit
<br />Court of Appeals. Konnie has been a planner with the City of Lake Forest and a planning consultant for the
<br />cities of Irvine, Anaheim, and Rancho Santa Margarita. Her duties included project management, evaluating
<br />development proposals, presenting staff reports and resolutions before the Zoning Administrator and
<br />Planning Commission, evaluating grading and building plans, and environmental review and documentation.
<br />Konnie's diverse planning and legal experience provides her with a unique understanding of planning and
<br />zoning law, and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). She is a frequent lecturer on CEQA for
<br />the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) Advanced CEQA Workshop and CEQA Basics
<br />Workshop, which provides training to many of the area developers, agency planners and attorneys. Konnie
<br />currently serves on Board of Directors for AEP as the organization's Executive Vice President.
<br />Jeremy Krout, AICP, LEED GA, President. Jeremy, the founder of EPD, has experience in both the public and
<br />private sectors, which has allowed him opportunities to prepare and manage various types of environmental
<br />documents and project entitlements. Jeremy's experience spans a diverse range of uniquely complex land
<br />use planning and entitlement projects, due diligence studies, general plan amendments, zone changes,
<br />environmental impact reports, development agreements, and construction projects. His clients have entrusted
<br />him with these responsibilities based on his problem -solving approach and extensive real -world experience
<br />in creating CEQA documents based on sound research and well -articulated strategies and many successes
<br />on exigent projects.
<br />Jeremy has dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of
<br />California, Santa Barbara, and a Master of City and Regional Planning from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He
<br />is an active member of the American Planning Association and is certified by the American Institute of
<br />Certified Planners (AICP).
<br />Meghan Macias, TE, Transportation Planning Director, Registered Traffic Engineer #2697. Meghan will lead
<br />traffic analysis services, including preparing Traffic Impact Technical Reports; forecasting future traffic
<br />generation using Average Daily Trips (ADT), Level of Service (LOS), and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT);
<br />preparing Parking and Shared Parking Analyses; and developing traffic mitigation measure
<br />recommendations and fair share calculations, and would coordinate preparation of intersection design plans,
<br />traffic signal design plans, other related services. Meghan has over 18 years of experience in the
<br />transportation planning field and has worked on hundreds of projects throughout California. She has a deep
<br />understanding of the regulations and methodologies used by local and regional agencies throughout
<br />California, including application of local traffic study guidelines, CMP and CEQA requirements and the
<br />Mitigation Fee Act. She holds a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of
<br />California, Irvine, is a registered Traffic Engineer, and an active member of the Institute of Transportation
<br />Engineers (ITE). She was also a participant on the ITE S3743 Task Force to evaluate changes to the CEQA
<br />Guidelines resulting from SB743.
<br />Alex Garber, Senior Technical Planner. Alex has over five years of experience in the areas of air quality,
<br />greenhouse gas, environmental, and traffic planning and analysis. Alex has worked on traffic projects
<br />ranging from focused access studies to large mixed -use projects analyzing over 50 intersections, roadway
<br />segment analyses, and parking analyses. Additionally, Alex has experience writing and completing air
<br />quality, energy, greenhouse gas, and health risk assessment analyses, spatial analyses using GIS software,
<br />as well as writing CEQA documents. The types of projects Alex has worked on include residential, industrial,
<br />commercial, institutional, solar utility, and mixed use at a development level, and specific plans at a planning
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