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The Academy Charter High School MND I City of Santa Ana Planning Division Family Residential Project for the City. This document is out for public review, and the project should be complete in January. Renee's daily focus Is on client interaction, project coordination, management, and oversight. In addition, she often functions as the lead author and is excellent at evaluating technical studies, preparing complex impact analysis, and integrating regulatory requirements. Renee's skill strengths include collaborative critical thinking, excellent writing, accomplished project management, effective team leadership, and being solution oriented. Project Director. Chad Beckstrom, AICP, is a principal with ICF who brings more than 15 years of experience managing and overseeing the preparation of CEQA documentation for various types of projects. Chad has a long history working with the City and is currently serving as the project director for The Met at South Coast Multi-Family Residential Project IS/MND. He managed our previous as-needed environmental services contract with the City, where he was responsible for overseeing the preparation of CEQA documentation for several small-scale developments, including the Alton Court IS/MND, Gateway Corporate Center IS/MND, West End Lofts EIR, California Palms Residential Conversion, and Enterprise Zone IS/MND. Chad has also provided CEQA advisory services to City staff through formal CEQA training, in his role as an on-site extension of staff at the City's office for six months. He brings the continuity necessary to apply our experience and knowledge of the City's processes and preferences to this particular effort. He is also the project director for our master services contract with the LAUSD that ICF has held since 1998 and has managed or overseen dozens of CEQA documents for new school development projects sited within existing developed neighborhoods. Key Technical Staff Aesthetics/Visual Resources. Jennifer Stock, LA, brings more than 11 years of experience in visual impact analysis and serves as one of ICF's leads for visual resources. Jennifer has prepared visual resources and shade/shadow analyses for CEQA documents, as well as construction documents, using Autodesk Civil 3D. She brings unique expertise in assessing the visual environment in greater detail, determining how a project may negatively or beneficially affect visual landscapes, and developing methods to improve aesthetics and expertise in mitigation planning and design. Air Quality/ Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions. Keith Cooper, AICP, has more than 12 years of professional experience as an air quality specialist preparing air quality studies and conducting analysis for CEQA documents. His areas of expertise include criteria pollutant and GHG emissions inventories, air toxics health risk assessments, transportation conformity determinations, and general conformity determinations. Keith has prepared or overseen the preparation of hundreds of air quality impact assessments/reports that document air pollutant emissions and concentrations related to various public infrastructure and private development projects. He has a thorough understanding of the National and State Ambient Air Quality Standards, general and transportation conformity requirements, rules and regulations adopted by local air districts (e.g., South Coast Alr Quality Management District [SCAQMD]), and climate change/GHG emissions quantification and evaluation requirements. CEQA Documentation. Aaron Brownwood Is an urban and environmental planner with more than five years of experience in the urban planning and environmental processes for a variety of public agencies and private developers. He prepares CEQA documents and master plans, conducts public outreach workshops, and processes a variety of discretionary projects. Aaron is currently preparing an EIR for the Port of Los Angeles to analyze a project involving the adaptive reuse of an industrial shipyard as a public space and educational center in San Pedro. He was also a technical author for a large portion of the City of Santa Ana Met Project MND. . CEQA Documentation. Tanya Jones is trained in environmental analysis and design and contributes to CEQA projects by preparing environmental analysis, providing assistance to project managers, coordinating between project managers and technical specialists, and facilitating scoping meetings. Tanya has experience with infill, redevelopment, and school projects. Her most recent school project experience includes preparation of responses to comments and the final EIR for the LAUSD South Region High School No. 15 project. Page 4 25A-16