Dom
Nozzi
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Skills
· Smart Growth, sustainability, Complete Streets and walkable streets specialist.
· Experienced public speaker (sprawl, congestion, smart growth, urban design).
· Published writer, editor.
· Experienced in design workshops, charrettes, walkability audits to create or restore safe streets, healthy neighborhoods, vibrant commercial areas.
· Skilled in crafting or calibrating land development codes for smart growth, form-based coding, transects, walkable urbanity, context-sensitive design, parking.
· Skilled in preparing and revising long-range plans for land use, transportation, recreation, greenways and urban design.
· Skilled in providing specialized professional recommendations regarding effective tactics for increasing transit use, bicycling and walking.
· Skilled in working with growth management “concurrency” and “rate control” planning.
· Skilled in assisting local governments in establishing more understandable, “Plain English,” graphics-based regulations and plans.
· Well-versed in using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Photo Editor, PowerPoint, and other software programs.
· Skilled in creating, editing and maintaining Internet websites.
Employment
History:
· Urban Design Consultant & Complete Streets Instructor, October 2007 – Present.
· Senior Planner, September 1997 – October 2007. City of Gainesville FL.
· Growth Management Specialist, February 1996 - August 1997. City of Boulder CO.
· Senior Planner, September 1989 - February 1996. City of Gainesville FL.
· Associate Planner, March 1986 - September 1989. City of Gainesville FL.
Bio
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Dom Nozzi, AICP, has a BA in environmental science
from SUNY Plattsburgh and a Master’s in planning from Florida State University.
For 20 years, he was a senior planner for Gainesville FL and briefly the growth
rate control planner for Boulder CO. He maintains an independent consulting
practice in which he writes, edits, and speaks about street design, urban
design, and quality of life. His primary professional skills are in urban
design (particularly walkable streets & form-based codes), transportation
choice, “plain English” land development codes promoting quality of life,
long-range comprehensive planning, and inspirational, understandable,
educational public presentations. He was the Duckpond Neighborhood Association
president from 1999 to 2005. He is a member of the Congress for the New
Urbanism. He has authored several environmental, transportation and urban
design plans and regulations for Gainesville. He is in Who's Who for the South
& Southwest. His most recent book is The Car is the Enemy of the City,
was published by WalkableStreets in May 2010. His second book, The Road to
Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It, was published by
Praeger Publishers in 2003. Mr. Nozzi is a contributing author to New
Urbanism & Beyond, published by Rizzoli Publishers. He currently serves
on the Board of Directors for Bike/Walk Virginia. He is a Complete Streets
Instructor for the National Complete Streets Coalition. He brews his own beer and
wine, makes his own pasta, has run the New York City Marathon, is an avid
traveler and adventurer, diver, kayaker, bicyclist and skier.
As a Senior Planner for City of Gainesville, Florida
from 1986 to 2007, he authored the Environmental Conservation, Recreation, and
Solid Waste Elements of Gainesville's 1991-2001 Comprehensive Plan, and the
Future Land Use, Urban Design, and Transportation Elements of Gainesville's
2001-2011 Comprehensive Plan. He prepared or revised ordinances pertaining to
the protection of creeks, lakes, wetlands, wellfields, nature parks, upland
ecological communities, and gateway streets. Other ordinances prepared or
revised include noise control, landscaping and tree management, animal control,
sign control, downtown Traditional City overlay, planned unit developments, and
traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs).
He was the lead planner for Gainesville's 26-mile
greenway trail system. He served as editor for the update of the city's
"Development Guide," which is an award-winning guide describing, in
layman's terms, the steps one must follow to go through the city's development
process, and a graphic and written summary of various planning concepts and
city development objectives. He was awarded Employee of the Month for the City
Department of Community Development in 1987 and Employee of the Year for the
Department in 1993.
Hobbies
He ran the 34th Annual New York City Marathon on November 2, 2003. He is also an avid bicyclist, hiker, photographer, scuba diver (advanced certification), canoeist, camper, kayaker, whitewater rafter, skier, dancer, cook, and writer.
Selected
Published Articles
Nozzi, D. "Fighting the Correct Battle." The Gainesville Sun, 2 February, 2002.
Nozzi, D. "Growth, Sprawl Not Always Connected." The Gainesville Sun, 30 September 2002.
Nozzi, D. "Fighting the Correct Battle." The Town Paper [Gaithersburg, MD], August/September 2001, 11-12.
Nozzi, D. "School Needed for Duckpond." The Gainesville Sun, 15 July, 2001.
Nozzi, D. "Disadvantages of Living in a Public Safety Bubble." The Gainesville Sun, 23 April 2000.
Nozzi, D. "Leverage and No Growthers." The Town Paper [Gaithersburg, MD], March/April 2000, 2-3.
Nozzi, D. "Transportation: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century." The Gainesville Sun, 30 May 1999.
Nozzi, D. "A Decade of Growth and Change in Alachua County." Booklet. Gainesville: Friends of Alachua County (Florida). June 1993.
Thrall, G., Swanson, B. and Nozzi, D. "Greenspace Acquisition and Ranking Program (GARP)." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol. 12, 161-184. 1989.
"Road
to Ruin" Presentations
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