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Chattel, Inca Historic Preservation Consultants SUSAN O'CARROLL, Ph.D. Consulting Principal Associate I Principal Planner Susan O'Carroll has over 25 years of planning experience, and for the last 20 has worked as a CEQA specialist managing preparation of Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs), Negative Declarations, and environmental document critiques. Susan has managed preparation of over twenty EIRs, and numerous Negative Declaration and Mitigated Negative Declaration documents. She is experienced in preparing EIRs for controversial projects and for projects where development and evaluation of a range of alternatives is key to clarifying environmental issues facing decision -makers. Examples of such projects include Central Area New Learning Center #1 (Ambassador Hotel site, cultural resources section) for Los Angeles Unified School District and the Rancho Malibu Hotel project in the City of Malibu. Susan managed preparation of a focused EIR for a highly controversial project in the City of Beverly Hills, the Chateau Arnaz project, which dealt both with historic issues and the development of alternatives. She also contributes to projects involving formulation of preservation policy: for the City of Carmel, she participated in drafting the historic preservation ordinance; and for Mare Island in Vallejo, she helped prepare Historic Resources Project Guidelines. Susan holds Ph.D. and M.PI. degrees in Urban and Regional Planning from USC and a B.A. in Experimental Psychology from UC Santa Barbara. She has provided customized CEQA training for cities of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Clarita and Santa Paula, as well as for the Planner's Institute. She served for seven years as part-time faculty for Schools of Public Administration and Urban and Regional Planning at USC where she taught courses on policy analysis, urban economics, transportation planning, and urban studies. Susan also served as Adjunct Faculty for Troy State University's Master's of Public Administration Program in the Pacific Theater, where she taught Intergovernmental Relations, Research Methods and Economics for Public Administrators. LAURA CARIAS Senior Associate I Architectural Historian Laura Caries has over ten years of experience in the field of historic and cultural resources evaluation, identification, documentation, and preservation. She earned dual B.A. degrees in History and Chicano Studies from California State University, Dominguez Hills and an M.A. from California State University, Sacramento in Pubic History. In her career, she has worked on projects such as the Historic Buildings Structures Report for the Santa Paula Mill and Depot, mothballing Patriotic Hall in Los Angeles, mitigation compliance for Rancho Los Amigos, reviewed project plans to ensure compliance with the Secretary's Standards for the Los Angeles Unified School District and managed the Central City North Community Plan Area for the SurveyLA Los Angeles Historic Resources Survey. Laura specializes in Historic American Buildings Survey (NABS) documentation, assessment of historic significance, preparation of documentation to support the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), compliance with the Secretary's Standards, and coordination of historic resources surveys. She satisfies the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards in Architectural History.