The Jury

Mr. Chaffin is the co-founder with James W. Light and President of Chaffin/Light Associates.  With over 40 years of experience in resort/recreation community development,   Chaffin and Light have developed communities in Snowmass Village, CO, the Resort Semiahmoo near Blaine Washington, Lake Arrowhead, California and Callawassie Island, Spring Island, and Chechessee Creek Club near Hilton Head, SC.  They developed the Roaring Fork Club; a private golf and fly-fishing club near Aspen, CO.  Spring Island, in particular, has received numerous awards and national acclaim for its environmental sensitivity, including the 2000 Urban Land Institute Awards for Excellence.

Prior to 1978, as Senior Vice President of the Sea Pines Company, he was involved in several major community developments in Hilton Head Island and Charleston, South Carolina, as well as Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico.

Mr. Chaffin is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research and education institute that is dedicated to responsible land use and supported and directed by its 40,000+ members.    Jim
co-chaired with Charleston Mayor Joe Reilly a South Carolina statewide collaborative smart growth initiative, seeking to identify and foster patterns of growth that are economically sound, environmentally sensitive and supportive of community livability.

In both South Carolina and Colorado, Mr. Chaffin has been an active contributor to community organizations, serving on school, hospital, symphony, and community foundation boards.  He is past Chairman of the National Real
Estate Advisory Board of the Trust for Public Land.  He is also past Chairman of the Lowcountry Institute, a 501©3 environmental trust in South Carolina whose mission is to provide responsible leadership in the conservation and use of Lowcountry resources  by fostering learning opportunities and helping local policymakers, landowners and residents make informed decisions.    He is an Honorary Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and has served on the ASLA Foundation Board.  In addition, Chaffin was the President of the Alumni Council of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia and served a six year term on the Board of Managers for the University.

Gerdo Aquino is the president of SWA, an internationally recognized landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm based out of California.   SWA has been in practice for over 50 years, has worked strategically in over 60 countries and is comprised over 200 people nurturing a critical dialogue of design and urbanism that works for cities around the world.   Based out of Los Angeles, Aquino is an accomplished landscape architect and urban designer whose focus on the public realm heightens his position on the importance of collaborative ideation between communities and consultants. Mr. Aquino is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and coauthor of a recently released book by Birkhauser entitled landscape infrastructure: case studies by SWA.

Gerdo Aquino received his Master of Landscape Architecture in 1996 from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and his undergraduate from the University of Florida. He was the co-founder of AsiaGSD at Harvard Design School in 1994 and is an active lecturer at professional organizations and academic institutions around the world.

Mimi leads the Landscape + Planning Group at Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, a multidisciplinary, 130-person design firm with offices in Albuquerque, Las Vegas and Amarillo. Her career has focused primarily on recreation and urban design, campus and community master planning, and design and promotion of sustainable development practices. Mimi has a passion for creating memorable, healthy places that are beneficial for her clients and for the community. She has participated in the planning and site design of a wide variety of LEED and green-building projects and has developed a thorough understanding of the technical, aesthetic, economic, social, environmental, and procedural issues that accompany these kinds of projects throughout the Southwest.

Mimi’s academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from the State University of New York School of Environmental Science and Forestry, and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Cornell University. Mimi is a registered landscape architect in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Utah, and is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Urban Land Institute. Mimi frequently participates on design and planning juries at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, is a former foundation board member of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and currently serves as a trustee of Sandia Preparatory School.

 Anyeley Hallova, a partner at project^, is a development professional and urban designer with a range of experiences from mixed-use sustainable developments to large-scale urban master plans. Anyeley’s passion is creating unique developments that reflect the flavor of the local culture, respect the natural environment, and build community.

Her core focus within the company is shepherding projects through entitlements with a specialization in, market research, pre-development activities, project management, and leasing/marketing efforts for purpose-built student housing. Some of her more recent projects include Courtside and Skybox Apartments, a 405 bedroom $30M sustainable apartment community in Eugene, Oregon adjacent to the University of Oregon.

Before joining project^, Anyeley served as a Development Manager for Gerding Edlen Development in Portland, where she worked on student housing, civic projects, and public-private partnerships. Her roles at GED included pre-development planning, proforma analysis, design supervision, and construction management.

Anyeley has a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University, a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Systems Technology from Cornell University.

Anyeley is published researcher and writer on cultural landscapes and developing public consensus. Her civic work includes a mayoral appointment to the City of Portland’s Adjustment Committee and the Community Involvement Committee for the Portland Plan. She is also a guest design critic at major Universities including Louisiana State, Harvard, Auburn, Georgia Tech, and Portland State.

 Richard is a nationally recognized expert in the planning and design of urban, mixed use developments with 30 years of experience in cities around the world. Richard has directed the planning, design and public consensus building for more than fifty “Main Streets” across the country, many of which have been the recipients of national AIA and ULI Awards of Excellence.  He is currently leading development consulting work in major urban downtowns, including Washington, DC; Newark, New Jersey; Norwalk, Connecticut and Detroit, Michigan.

As developer, Richard led the creation and public education effort for the $285 million Blue Back Square mixed-use development in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is also managing the creation and public consensus effort for Street-Works’ $1.2 billion redevelopment of Downtown Quincy in Massachusetts.

 As president of Kulli Marketing Company, Sandra Kulli creates marketing programs for homebuilders.  She has worked with 95 builders on 124 communities with a sales volume of $2.6 billion throughout the United States and in Japan and New Zealand.

Kulli Marketing consults with home builders on marketing strategy – from high concept to turnarounds.  Her approach taps the power of homebuying as fulfillment of the American dream, applies great ideas from other industries, prioritizes to starve problems and feed opportunities, and gets results through sharp, constant focus on the mission.

Before forming Kulli Marketing, she worked three years as vice president of marketing for a large homebuilder, sold homes for Coldwell Banker, and taught in inner-city schools.  She serves on the boards of KCRW, national public radio, and PCBC.

 Michael Lander is founder and president of the Lander Group, a Minneapolis-based real estate development firm specializing in urban infill projects. He has been active in the planning, design, and development of commercial, residential, and mixed-use real estate projects in California, North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.

Since relocating to Minneapolis in 1990, the Lander Group, alone and in partnerships with other firms, has developed and sold many successful infill residential projects and completed substantial renovations of mixed-use commercial buildings. Lander is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Congress of the New Urbanism, T4America/LOCUS, and the Minnesota chapter of the AIA. He serves on the public policy committee of the Builders’ Association of the Twin Cities and the Board of Directors of Transit for Livable Communities. He is a licensed real estate broker and general contractor in Minnesota, and holds the CCIM designation from the National Association of Realtors. He is a past president of the Minnesota/South Dakota CCIM chapter.

Lander is a native of Grand Forks, North Dakota. He has gained over 35 years experience in the real estate development field since studying liberal arts at Arizona State University and the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He has two daughters.

 Alan Mountjoy, AIA is the Manager of Urban Design and a Principal at Chan Krieger /NBBJ. Mr. Mountjoy has over 25 years of national and international experience in the fields of architecture, master planning and urban design. He has managed large-scale urban design projects in Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Washington DC, Charleston, Pittsburgh and Shanghai. In his role as urban design manager, he has led diverse teams of professionals in landscape architecture, real estate economics, transportation planning, and environmental and civil engineering. Before joining Chan Krieger NBBJ in 1997, he served as a project manager for the Metropolitan District Commission’s New Charles River Basin project in Boston, a parks expansion project to reconnect Boston’s historic Charles River Esplanade to the Boston Harbor.

Mr. Mountjoy’s interests lie in community planning, transportation design, transit, and environmental sustainability. In addition to planning efforts for large cities, he has completed community-based planning projects for Newport News, Virginia, Greensboro, North Carolina, Akron and Kent, OH and smaller towns and cities in New England. He has designed a new campus for the University of Botswana and a new waterfront park in the historic Bund in Shanghai. Three of his waterfront projects have received national AIA Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design.

Mr. Mountjoy earned a Master of Architecture in Urban Design at Harvard University in 1996 and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983.  He has served as a studio instructor at the Harvard Design School and visiting critic and lecturer at Tufts University, Northeastern University and the Boston Architectural Center. He is a Registered Architect in California and a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Tim Van Meter, a firm partner and founder of Van Meter Williams Pollack, LLP, an Architecture and Urban Design firm in San Francisco and Denver, is a leading architect and urban designer whose work has focused on green architecture and sustainable urban design for the last 20 years. Tim heads the firm’s Denver office, which he established in 1999. He has led the design team on many of the firm’s complex and award-winning architecture and urban design projects in Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, New Mexico, and California. He is experienced in a wide range of architecture and urban design projects at various scales, focusing on transit-oriented development, neighborhood design, mixed-use urban infill, adaptive reuse, and high density and affordable housing.

On the national level, Tim is an Urban Design Adviser for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Smart Growth Program. He also was co-chair of CNU XVII, the 2009 national conference of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He is a licensed architect in Colorado, California, Hawaii, Texas and Utah.

A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Environmental Design, Tim has traveled extensively worldwide, studying design, planning, and environmental issues and their effects on urban communities and landscapes. He is a community design consultant for numerous communities and organizations, and has extensive experience achieving consensus through the public process. He lectures on issues of urban and sustainable design and development across Colorado’s Front Range and throughout the West and Hawaii as well as for the Universities of Colorado, California and Hawaii.

Tim’s design work has been awarded, honored and published by organizations such as: The American Institute of Architects; The Urban Land Institute; The Congress of New Urbanism; The Environmental Protection Agency; The American Planning Association; the United States Green Building Council; and the US Housing and Urban Development Department. Tim is the co-author of Colorado Urbanizing; Experiencing New Urbanism, which was published for the 2009 CNU XVII in Denver.