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NAME AND ROLE I QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
<br />Chad Beckstrom, AICP
<br />Project Director
<br />Marlie Long
<br />Project Manager
<br />Chad is a collaborative leader with over 25 years of consulting experience in the
<br />environmental planning industry covering environmental impact analysis documentation,
<br />environmental plans and programs, constraints/opportunities studies, project
<br />management, strategic planning, and team leadership. He is committed to exceptional
<br />client service, with a steadfast dedication to technical excellence. Chad is well known for the
<br />ability to address complex issues, deliver strategic solutions, and help our clients to
<br />communicate scientific results in an understandable way to their stakeholders and
<br />decision -makers. He works to provide his clients with the best professional advice to solve
<br />problems related to compliance with CEQA and other environmental regulatory
<br />requirements. He has experience on a wide range of project types, including residential,
<br />commercial, industrial, and mixed -use development and redevelopment projects. Chad
<br />also teaches courses on CEQA environmental review processes through university
<br />extension programs, professional seminars, and client trainings.
<br />Marie Long has over 9 years of experience in preparing and managing a wide range of
<br />CEQA documents to ensure environmental compliance throughout California. She has led
<br />and worked on interdisciplinary consultant teams for a variety of projects, including master
<br />plan communities, large flood control infrastructure, urban development, and long-range
<br />plans, such as general, master, and specific plans and housing elements. Marlie specializes in
<br />the managerrient and preparation of programmatic analyses as a tool to allow streamlining
<br />of future projects. She is also responsible for client relations, assigning and adjusting staff
<br />resources within internal and external teams, financial tasks, internal review, and quality
<br />control, as well as authoring and production of documents.
<br />Ascent is known for our pristine reputation for working on some of the highest -profile projects in the
<br />state. We thrive on challenging projects and are no strangers to complexity and controversy. Ascent
<br />excels at providing quality environmental and planning services, with the vast majority of our work being
<br />done for public, agencies. The following project examples summarize our relevant experience and
<br />demonstrate our team's experience.
<br />The Village Santa Ana Supplemental EIR Peer Review
<br />City of Santa Ana
<br />Ascent is currently working closely with the City and its legal counsel, Best Best & Krieger, in the peer review
<br />of the Supplemental EIR for The Village Santa Ana Project. The project involves a Specific Plan for the
<br />redevelopment of an approximately 17.2-acre site in the South Bristol Street Focus Area for the
<br />development of approximately 1,583 residential units, 80,000 square feet of retail space, 300,000 square
<br />feet of office space, and over 3.6 acres of open space. Because the project is consistent with the City's
<br />General Plan Update (GPU) and was largely analyzed in the GPU Program FIR, Segerstrom's consultant,
<br />Michael Baker International, is preparing a Supplemental FIR that tiers from the GPU Program EIR pursuant
<br />to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15168 and 15152. Ascent is conducting peer reviews of the Draft Supplemental
<br />EIR sections and has reviewed Batch 1 and 2 documentation to date, including the following
<br />chapters/sections: Introduction, Project Description, Cultural Resources, Geology and Soils, Hazardous
<br />Materials, Hydrology and Water Quality, Land Use and Planning, and Population and Housinci. In addition,
<br />CITY OF SANTA ANA 8 CEQA. CLASS 32 EXEMPTION PEER REVIEW FOR THE EXTRA SPACE STORAGE AT FOURTH STREET
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