Overview
Track
Track 2: Ensuring Economic Diversity and Resilience
Company / Institute
Clackamas County
Position
Senior Planner
I'm interested in
City and Regional Planning
Governance, Finance, Regulation
Housing and Social Justice
Infrastructure and Transport Planning
Land use Planning and Management
Landscape, Architecture and Urban Design
Urban Economy
Bio
Lorraine Gonzales is a senior land use planner that has practiced in the public sector for the past twenty-six years. Twenty-two of those years has been at Clackamas County, a public jurisdiction within the Portland Metropolitan area of Oregon, USA. Her past work has a focus on long range planning to include master planning of rural communities and urban light rail communities. She has also participated on transportation corridor projects, developed County Code, zoning development ordinance and comprehensive plan amendments, and reviewed commercial, industrial and multi-family design review projects. Her current project involves creating development and design standards to ensure future develop provides a sustainable urban transformation along a commercial corridor within proximity of a light rail station community. This particular project is termed as a “grass roots” effort in which the community takes on a primary role in partnership with the consultant team and jurisdiction staff.
In the past Ms. Gonzales participated as co-chair at the Durban, South Africa and Gdynia, Poland congresses, and participated as a local organizing committee member for the Portland Oregon congress. For the Portland Oregon Congress she coordinated with three local Portland Metro jurisdictions to ensure a Young Planning Professionals (YPP) project was available at the Congress, and served as a local YPP project mentor with the two ISOCARP Congress YPP mentors. In addition to ISOCARP Congresses, she has participated as a UPAT member for the Stiges IV Project in Spain.
