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Mark K. Nolan, AICP -. Senior Urban Planner Experience, Continued goals and policies to help Gem Lake cope with strong development pressures and the requirements of the Metropolitan Council, while preserving its unique "North Woods" atmosphere. Mark also assisted the City with its day-to-day planning, urban design and ordinance needs. • Midtown Greenway Land-Use and Development Plan—Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mark managed the preparation of a land-use plan and development guidelines for the area surrounding the Midtown Greenway, a former rail corridor trench that has been converted to a bike path and future location for transit.The Greenway travels across the entire width of the city and connects a variety of neighborhoods ,..� with the Chain of Lakes,the Mississippi River and the Hiawatha LRT line. This plan evaluates existing and future land uses along the corridor and ' creates a comprehensive vision and strategies to guide development and public improvements along the Greenway. • Wadena Mixed-Use Subdivision Development Plan—Wadena, Minnesota. Mark managed the preparation of a plan to guide future land uses and development for a 220-acre City-owned site that includes the former Wadena Municipal Airport site adjacent to a city park, multi- purpose trail and potential future highway bypass. Three land-use and infrastructure planning concepts were prepared that includes a mixture of residential uses as well as commercial and open space uses.A public engagement process resulted in a preferred subdivision concept and infrastructure requirements that will later be taken into the engineering and platting stages. • Development Objectives for the University Avenue SE/29th Avenue SE Transit Corridor—Minneapolis, Minnesota. Located in the Prospect Park neighborhood in southeast Minneapolis, the project area is focused on a potential future light-rail or bus rapid transit station on r� the Central Corridor. The primary focus of the project was to engage and facilitate the public process of formulating development objectives ' that will be used to shape future transit-oriented and supportive redevelopment while creating two potential redevelopment schemes for the project area. • Northeast Diagonal Land-Use/Transit Study— Hennepin and Ramsey Counties, Minnesota.A series of development scenarios was prepared to project population and employment growth at 15 — opportunity sites along the corridor. Ridership projections based on these scenarios then indicated the potential to support new transit "4, infrastructure. Responsibilities included assimilation of background field and electronic data; GIS data examination and representation; and preparation of three Smart Growth scenarios for each opportunity site. • West Side Flats Master Plan—St. Paul, Minnesota. The West Side Flats site is currently taking shape and contains a high quality public r� realm, a diversity of housing types, corporate and community uses, and a strong relationship to the Mississippi River, downtown Saint Paul and the greater West Side neighborhood. Responsibilities for this urban mixed-use project included design input and content for the master plan document and developing quantity take-offs for the f _': development plan. a• __^ CAoLssoN 2 ASSOCIATES '