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Proposal for CEQA Peer Review
<br /> April 2024 Page 4
<br /> Konnie Dobreva, 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 SB743 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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