Stephen Coyle, AIA, LEED AP, CNU has over 30 years of experience as an architect, urban designer, and public facilitator in a wide range of public and private projects around the nation. His specialty is managing and planning new and redeveloping transit-oriented public and private developments. Steve has worked at multiple scales and levels Ð from single buildings to regions, from new transit and waterfront facilities to redeveloped transit-oriented villages.

He has synthesized his experiences in both design and development into an approach that maximizes design by fully integrating architecture, circulation, codes, engineering, finance, and the project approval process. He is a national leader in the Charrette process that is often used to facilitate this management approach to a project.

Steve is co-founder of the National Charrette Institute (NCI), a non-profit organization that trains professionals in the art and practice of facilitating Charrettes - a collaborative process that empowers people with diverse interests regarding a project to work together and support the results, and co-author of the "Charrette Handbook," published in 2006 by the APA.

Daniel Dunigan, AICP, LEED AP is an Urban Designer with a broad range of professional experience, including detailed architectural specification, all phases of design/build project management, multi-scaled master planning, and state funded sustainability analysis. Before helping create Town-Green, Daniel worked with several architecture and planning firms, and was involved in multiple planning Charrettes, urban design master plans, and transit-oriented residential developments throughout the western US, which were designed with an emphasis on traditional community planning and interaction.

Prior to his focus on urban design, Daniel worked with a design/build architecture firm and completed projects including retail, residential, commercial, governmental, and mixed-use facilities, as well as participated in various volunteer organizations including Habitat for Humanity and the Dalton/Whitfield Quality Growth Resource Team.

Dana Perls, MCP is a City Planner with a diverse background in both international and local planning. Her professional experience ranges from infrastructure management, green affordable housing financing and policy, community outreach for regional transit plans, to technical water supply analyses. Prior to joining Town-Green, Dana worked with several non-profits, a planning firm, and the City of Oakland on climate change research, green building policy, transit-oriented development education, and water supply assessments. All of the projects had a significant emphasis on public education and outeach.

Prior to getting her Masters in City Planning, Dana served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama, and worked closely with government agencies and local leaders on watershed protection, solid waste management, and water infrastructure development.

R. John Anderson, CNU has diverse experience, beginning with a practical foundation in the construction trades, advancing through design and development practice in public and private roles. He thrives in the problem solving and troubleshooting environment of charrettes, and the rigor of coding, entitlement, and building. He can triage conventional building schemes and demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable urbanism to private developers and municipalities in their own terms. John leads the planning and urban design work of the firm.

With over thirty years of experience in design and development, John is well-versed in the practical realities of delivering complex large-scaled projects from design through entitlement and construction. Prior to the formation of Anderson|Kim, John directed planning and design for New Urban Builders, a firm that has demonstrated how sustainable neighborhoods can be successfully delivered by a California production builder/developer.

John is a frequent speaker and lecturer on implementation issues and techniques in Smart Growth and the New Urbanism. Speaking engagements include the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, the University of Minnesota, Andrews University, Local Government Commission, New Partners for Smart Growth, Sierra Business Council, Urban Land Institute, American Planning Association, National Association of Home Builders, and the Congress for the New Urbanism.

David Kim, RA, CNU is an architect and urban designer versed in a broad range of project types. He oversees the delivery and implementation of projects as well as the daily management and operations of the office.

With over twenty years of professional experience, David has an extensive understanding of infill projects at all scales, from the single accessory unit to the larger mixed-use building and the simple lot-split to traditional neighborhood development. His ability to comprehend the implications of finance and marketing, policy, building and zoning codes whatever the given problem help to effectively focus available resources for critical results.

David has built several courtyard housing and mixed-use transit-oriented developments as well as worked on the development side to focus on the implementation of design and construction to the development of building prototypes for Traditional Neighborhood Developments. He currently serves as a member of the Architectural Review Board and the General Plan Advisory Committee as he focuses on the design and craft of "background" buildings and their role in place making.