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- EIR Preparation Services
<br />- EIR Preparation Services
<br />Team Personnel
<br />Jones & Stokes has put together a team that will enable us to be fully responsive to the City's
<br />needs. Our team will be led by Chad Beckstrom, AICP, who is an experienced senior
<br />project manager. Chad is an associate principal with the firm and will serve as the project
<br />director and project manager for this effort. Iien Bogdan, JD, and Charles Smith, AICP, will
<br />provide quality control/ quality assurance as needed for the proposed project. Qualifications
<br />of out key team members are also provided below (full resumes and additional qualifications
<br />of other team members will be provided upon request).
<br />Chad Beckstrom, AICP—Project Director/Project Manager. Chad is a senior
<br />project manager and CEQA prac6doner with a background in urban development and
<br />comprehensive planning. projects. He has over 10 years of experience managing and -,
<br />preparing multidisciplinary environmental documents and focused studies for urban
<br />development projects, including residential communities, commercial developments,
<br />industrial facilities, mixed -use projects, and institut onal projects; comprehensive planning
<br />programs, including general plans, specific plans, and zoning amendments; open space and
<br />recreational facility plans; and regulatory compliance and permitting programs. Chad has
<br />been providing ongoing on -call consulting service to the City, including conducting CEQA
<br />training, and reviewing and preparing CEQA documents on behalf of City staff. His
<br />expertise includes analysis of land use and infrastructure impacts; identification of land use
<br />compatibility and growth -inducing issues; policy analysis; and mitigation design. Chad has
<br />worked with agencies to defend legal challenges as well as conducted peer reviews of
<br />documents on behalf of clients to ensure CEQA adequacy. He also teaches courses on
<br />CEQA topics at programs sponsored by professional environmental organizations. Chad
<br />earned a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning from California State Polytechnic
<br />University, Pomona, and a B.A. in Environmental Analysis and Design from the University
<br />of California, Irvine.
<br />Charles Smith, AICP—Project Director. Charles Smith, AICP, has over 15 years of
<br />diverse experience in private sector consulting for land development, transportation, water
<br />resources, public works, resource management, energy, oil and gas, and other development
<br />projects. Charles has authored numerous reports, including EIRs, EISs, technical studies,
<br />and general plans. He has extensive experience in CEQA/NEPA compliance, permitting,
<br />and entitlements processing with a variety of federal, state, regional, and local agencies.
<br />Charles has managed EIRs and supporting environmental permits for many projects in
<br />southern California. He has also managed on -call services contracts with the City of Los
<br />Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Los Angeles County Department of
<br />Public Works. Under these contracts, Charles managed CEQA documents for a variety of
<br />public works infrastructures. In support of these and other projects, he has supervised
<br />teams of environmental technical specialists in biological resources, cultural resources,
<br />hydrology, geology, land use and planning, air quality, noise, transportation, and related
<br />disciplines needed to ensure compliance with CEQA. His project management activities
<br />have routinely involved various regulatory compliance activities, including permit
<br />identification, processing, and acting as liaison with federal, state, and local permitting
<br />agencies. Charles earned a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of
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