Program Manager
The Community Planning Program

k.date@csuohio.edu

Kirby Date, AICP is a landscape architect and community planner who has been coordinating the Community Planning Program, formerly the Countryside program, since 1996. Her areas of expertise include development planning and design, small town planning, and planning and design for parks, open space, and environmental areas. In 2004 she led the Ohio Lake Erie Commission’s working group on Best Local Land Use Practices, as part of the Balance Growth Blue Ribbon Task Force. Since 2006 she has led the Best Local Land Use Practices program, which became a statewide program in 2009 under the Ohio Lake Erie Commission and the Ohio Water Resources Council. Prior to starting The Countryside Program, she was in private practice for 14 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Date is a registered landscape architect in the State of Ohio, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. She is the author of the award-winning Conservation Development Resource Manual, published in 1999; co-author of Case Studies in Family Land Conservation (2005); and editor of the Ohio Lake Erie Commission’s Linking Land Use and Lake Erie: Best Local Land Use Practices (2004). Ms. Date holds a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University. Contact her at 216-687-5477, or k.date@csuohio.edu.

Areas of Expertise:

• Best Practices and Benchmarking Studies
• Building Strategic Alliances Among Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors
• Civic Education
• Comprehensive Planning
• Conservation development
• Compact development
• Environment and Sustainability
• Focus Group Moderation and Analysis
• Land Use
• Landscape architecture
• Local government planning and zoning policy
• Local government renewable energy policy
• Storm water protection policy
• Main Street and historic district planning
• Meadow and woodland protection
• Natural Areas, Woodland Management Policy
• Parks, recreation and open space planning
• Private Land Conservation Strategy
• Regional Planning
• State and Local Governance
• Stormwater Regulations and Compliance
• Transfer of Development Rights
• Urban Planning
• Watershed Protection Policy

Web links:

http://www.balancedgrowth.ohio.gov

Community Planning Program