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July 28, 2022
Dinsdale, Ross

Ross Dinsdale, P.E., is the Development Engineer for Lehi and deals with all of the new growth happening throughout the City. As an avid mountain biker himself, Ross has taken a personal interest in making sure the City is planning for a great network of mountain biking trails.

July 28, 2022
Vlasic, Mark

Mark is the President and Owner of Landmark Design, a Salt Lake City community planning and landscape architecture firm he joined in 1997 with a current staff of eight landscape architects, designers and planners. Founded in 1987, the firm has been providing landscape architecture, urban design and community planning services to inter-mountain clients ever since. […]

July 28, 2022
Cvetko, Olivia

Olivia is a community planner for Logan Simpson Design in Salt Lake City. In this role, Olivia has worked on a variety of comprehensive plan projects, small area master plans, and development code updates at various scales. She is passionate about each community she works in and strives to find exactly what it will take […]

July 8, 2022
Beck, Ryan

Ryan Beck began working with Envision Utah in 2008. He serves as the vice president of planning. Ryan was recently involved with Guiding Our Growth, a statewide conversation about Utah’s future as well as a land use review for attainable housing with DWS Housing and Community Development. Additionally, Ryan was involved with Envision Utah’s planning […]

July 8, 2022
2026 Spring Conference
Bruening, Ari

Ari Bruening has extensive experience in visioning and implementation efforts for regions, large areas, and critical growth-related topics. Currently, Ari is involved with Land Use Review for Attainable Housing with DWS Housing and Community Development and Guiding Our Growth, a statewide conversation about Utah’s future. Previously Ari led the Your Utah, Your Future statewide vision […]

July 8, 2022
Olson, Andrea

Andrea Olson has been working in land use and transportation planning in Utah for over two decades, having worked in both the private and public sectors including the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget, the Wasatch Front Regional Council, InterPlan and Parametrix. Prior to becoming UDOT’s Planning Director in April 2019, she was the Region […]

July 8, 2022
Bartholomew, Keith

Keith Bartholomew is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning and a Professor of City & Metropolitan Planning. Before coming to Utah, Professor Bartholomew served as a staff attorney for 1000 Friends of Oregon and was the director of “Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality […]

March 11, 2022
2022 Spring Conference
McMurtry, Thomas

Thomas is the Planning Director at Avenue Consultants where he has worked on dozens of transportation planning and trail studies all across Utah. For 20 years, Thomas has worked with cities to plan and expand their active transportation networks.

March 11, 2022
2022 Spring Conference
Jordao, Emilie

Emilie is a Project Manager with Avenue Consultants. Her transportation planning journey started with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, a Master of Landscape Architecture, and working experience as a Planner. Utilizing science, design, and planning as the three pillars of her work, Emilie strives to use the Geodesign framework and a myriad of tools […]

March 11, 2022
2022 Spring Conference
Renstrom, Zach

Zach Renstrom is the general manager for the Washington County Water Conservancy District. In this capacity, he oversees all operational and financial activities for the district and its employees. Prior to joining the district in 2019, Renstrom served as a Washington County Commissioner and worked as an attorney for Lincoln, Gustafson & Cercos. He was […]

March 11, 2022
2022 Spring Conference
Moses, Nathan

As a representative of the Utah State Engineer, Nathan is tasked with managing water rights in the southwestern area of the state. The region is composed of eleven basins of which three have been declared critical management areas where withdrawals consistently exceed safe yield. He graduated in 2004 with a Master’s Degree of Civil Engineering […]

March 8, 2022
2022 Spring Conference
Ellerman, Drew

Drew Ellerman is the Community Development Director for Washington City, Utah. His work philosophy has been that of finding solutions to any challenge, and leaving things better than you found them. He has been at Washington City for the last sixteen years. Prior to that, he spent twelve years with the town of Snowflake, Arizona, […]

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