Zoning 101: A Practical Introduction: Third Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781479391158)

Carl Stephani holds a Bachelor's Degree in Social Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's Degree in Regional Planning from Syracuse University. He also studied at the University of California at Riverside, the University of New Mexico, Columbia University, and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Marilyn Stephani holds a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and has been a licensed Realtor(R). Carl and Marilyn have consulted in planning in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Carl has served as a professional staff planner for local governments in New York, California, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, and Connecticut. During his more than 40 years of professional work, he has held the positions of planning director, town manager, city councilman, and county commissioner in various local governments. Carl also served as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in Bogota, Colombia; a Peace Corps trainer at the University of Missouri and Vanderbilt University; a New York City Urban Fellow; and a United Nations intern. In January of 2015 he retired after fourteen years of service as the Executive Director of the Central Connecticut Regional Planning Agency. In 1994, the Small Towns and Rural Division of the American Planning Association recognized the zoning ordinance that Carl wrote for the Town of Cave Creek, Arizona, as the "Outstanding Project of the Year" for its effectiveness and user-friendliness. Carl has also spoken about zoning and planning at numerous national conferences including those of the American Planning Association and the International City/County Management Association. Carl and Marilyn were born and raised in the state of New York, and currently live in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are the authors of: - ZONING 101: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION, - PLANNING CITIES 101: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION - ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: A True Crime Story of Suspense, Intrigue, and Deception (also published as ON BECOMING A CITY MANAGER - THE KINDNESS OF RANDOM STRANGERS: Hitchhiking San Diego to Panama 1961