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June 24, 2011 Ms. Wanda Wilson Executive Director Oakland Planning & Development Corp. 235 Atwood Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Subject: Oakland 2025 Community Plan

Dear Wanda, Thank you for considering our qualifications and proposal to assist the Oakland community in developing a vision for the neighborhood. It’s exciting to start a project that already has a great foundation. The involvement of the community and its professional capacity will allow our services to be focused on deeper problem solving and implementation strategies. We have organized an experienced team anchored by a group of planners known for its work on the community plans of Central Northside, Lawrenceville, The Hill, Homewood, and most recently, Polish Hill. OUR TEAM Core Planning Team Our locally based team of Pfaffmann + Associates (Carl Bergamini, Jeff Slack and myself) and Studio for Spatial Practice (Christine Brill and Jon Kline) is supplemented by two firms quite familiar with Pittsburgh: Todd Poole of 4ward Planning for economic planning and Mike Morehouse of Fitzgerald & Halliday for transportation planning. Both Todd and Mike are currently involved in Pittsburgh projects and are also able to bring nationally recognized benchmark work to Pittsburgh. Our team roles are illustrated on the accompanying chart. Project Leadership Christine Brill and I will provide the strategic direction as principals in charge. Christine and I have worked together for many years and bring complementary approaches to our work. Christine will lead the community outreach components of the charrette and work closely with OPDC to integrate her creative “outside the box” approaches to the charrette. A Flexible, Deep Team All five planners (Christine, Carl, Jeff, Jon and me) will be hands-on charrette team leaders. We can shift from our team leadership to support as needed for each of the focus areas, whether they are thematic or geographic. This will allow for a compact highly efficient team with experienced planners and practioners leading each area of exploration. Project management Carl Bergamini, RA, AICP will be our project manager and provide the day-to-day organizational management of the team. He is well known in each community he has worked for his quiet commitment and thorough approach to planning project management.


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