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Company
Profile
Principals
Stephen
Svete
Michael
Gialketsis
Walt
Hamann
Duane
Vander Pluym
Joseph
Power
John
Rickenbach
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President
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Mr.
Svete serves as principal-in-charge of planning services
at Rincon. In this capacity, he oversees a wide range
of urban planning, land use, and permitting activities.
He has directed successful environmental and planning projects
ranging from focused inner city corridor revitalization
studies, to citywide general plans, to agricultural valley-wide
annexation studies throughout California. Mr. Svete
serves as Contributing Editor to California Planning
& Development Report, and lectures regularly on
urban planning issues at the University of California.
TECHNICAL
CAPABILITIES
- Mr.
Svete serves as Project Director or Supervisor for a range
of environmental and planning studies involving land and
infrastructure development, urban redevelopment, and alternative
transportation studies. He is an expert in analyzing
the implications of large-scale plans for districts, cities,
and regions.
- Mr.
Svete has a thorough familiarity with California planning
law and CEQA/NEPA compliance. He has developed expertise
in formatting environmental documents so that they both
communicate effectively to decision-makers and the public,
and assist in achieving identified planning objectives.
- Mr.
Svete lectures on General Plans, Master EIRs, and Transportation
at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department
of Environmental Studies and UCSB Extension.
Mr.
Svete has received awards from the American Institute of
Certified Planners for Housing the Homeless in Los Angeles
County: A Guide To Action (1986); the American
Planning Association Central Coast Section for the study
Blosser-Southeast: a Comparative Evaluation of Conventional
vs. Neotraditional Development (1993); and again from
the APA Central Coast Section for the City of Santa Maria
Sphere of Influence and Concurrent Annexation Study
(Comprehensive Planning, 1994).
EDUCATION,
REGISTRATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
M.A.,
Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA Graduate School of
Architecture and Urban Planning, Los Angeles, California
D.E.U.G.,
Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier, France
B.A., Geography, University of California, Riverside
American
Institute of Certified Planners (#6943)
American
Planning Association
Ventura
County Regional Trails Advisory Committee
Completed:
Senior Project Management, American Management Association
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