3rd Annual Low Impact Development Conference
Regulatory Drivers – Stormwater Management
Friday, May 29, 2009
Sheraton Hotel, Framingham, Massachusetts
Co-Hosts
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Associated General Contractors
Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Boston Society of Architects
Environmental Business Council
The Green Roundtable/NeXus
Construction Industries of Massachusetts
495/MetroWest Partnership
Agenda
8:15 a.m. Welcome Daniel K. Moon,President, EBC
Introduction – Leo Pierre Roy, Program Chair & Moderator,VHB
8:30 a.m. State Water Policy – Stormwater Management
Commonwealth’s perspective on low-impact development, including stormwater policy and the fast-changing scene of watershed management
Kathy Baskin, Director for Water Policy
Executive Office of Energy and Environment
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
8:45 a.m. History and Current Status of Regulatory Drivers
Moderator – Kate Bowditch, Charles River WatershedAssociation
- Proposed Massachusetts Stormwater Management Regulations
Fred Civian, Mass DEP
- Technical Research to Aid Compliance with Proposed Regulations
Dr. Robert Roseen, Stormwater Center, University of NH
10:15 a.m.Break
10:30 a.m.Impacts of Regulations on Operations
Moderator – Ham Hackney, Greenberg Traurig,LLP
- Developer Perspective- Strategies for Adapting to Proposed DEP Rules
Scott Weiss, Guiterrez Company
- Engineer Perspective: Dealing with the Proposed DEP Rules
Craig Lizotte, VHB
- Landscape Designer’s Perspective- A Focus on Project Examples
Allan Spulecki, OLIN
11:30 a.m. Open Discussion and Closing Remarks
Robert Golledge, Golledge Strategies & Solutions
SPEAKERS
Kathy Baskin, Executive Office of Energy and Environment
Director for Water Policy
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 900 Boston, MA02114
617-626-1012
Kathleen Baskin, Director of Water Policy at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), is responsible for development and implementation water policy for the Commonwealth. She has overseen development of water policies and documents related to issues such as flow and habitat alteration and restoration, improved stormwater management, water quality, and water supply allocation. She is currently managing EEA’s climate change adaptation initiative, which involves convening an advisory committee to analyze strategies and prepare a report for adapting to the predicted impacts of climate change, as required in the Global Warming Solutions Act. Prior to joining EEA, Ms. Baskin was the Director of Projects at the Charles River Watershed Association where she developed and directed technical research programs and helped establish watershed management priorities. Before that, Ms. Baskin was employed at Metcalf & Eddy, Inc., where she conducted environmental studies and analyzed impacts associated with large controversial projects. She has over 25 years of experience in the area of water resources management. She has an MS in Environmental Engineering and BS degrees in Civil Engineering and Biology, all from TuftsUniversity.
Kate Bowditch, CRWA
Director of Projects
190 Park Road, Weston, MA02492
781-788-0007, ext 227,
Kate Bowditch is Director of Projects at the Charles River Watershed Association. A hydrologist by training, Ms. Bowditch manages CRWA’s science, planning and advocacy programs. Her areas of focus include stream flow and water quality, stormwater management, and green infrastructure. She has worked with federal, state and municipal officials on the development and implementation of new policy and regulatory programs to change how water is managed in urban and suburban areas.
Robert Golledge, Golledge Strategies & Solutions
Fred Civian, MassDEP
Stormwater Coordinator
617-292-5821
Frederick Civian is MassDEP's Stormwater Coordinator, responsible for reducing pollution carried by stormwater in Massachusetts. A land use planner by profession, Fred has served the citizens of the Commonwealth by working to develop and implement various MassDEP programs, ranging from the 2008 revisions to the Massachusetts Stormwater Standards to Small Quantity Generators reporting, the vehicle emission inspection program, transportation-related requirements of the Big Dig, and establishment of the Board of Registration of Licensed Site Professionals.
Hamilton Hackney, Greenberg Traurig LLP
Shareholder
One International PlaceBoston,MA02110
617-310-6000
Hamilton Hackney has significant experience in the areas of environmental law and commercial real estate. Hamilton represents clients in response cost recovery and property damage actions, permit and other administrative proceedings, compliance counseling, and enforcement matters. His environmental experience includes matters arising under federal, state and local laws relating to asbestos, air and water emissions, hazardous waste, toxic chemicals, stormwater, wetlands, endangered species, environmental impact review, underground storage tanks, solid waste and land use issues.Hamiltonalso regularly advises corporate, real estate and private equity clients with respect to investigating and managing environmental liabilities arising from corporate and real estate transactions, including the purchase, sale and redevelopment of contaminated real estate under state and federal brownfields programs. Hamilton has received the AV® peer review rating, Martindale-Hubbell's highest available rating of legal ability and ethics. He is a graduate of MiddleburyCollege (B.A., cum laude) and the University of UtahSJ Quinney College of Law (Order of the Coif).
Craig Lizotte, VHB
Union Station, Suite 2192 Washington SquareWorcester, MA01604
617-924-1770 x 1898
Craig Lizotte is Manager of Land Development Services in Vanasse Hangen Brustlin’s WorcesterMassachusetts office. He is responsible for civil engineering design, permitting, and project management for a wide range of site development projects in a variety of market sectors including residential, retail, institutional and mixed use. Most recently Craig has worked with the Kraft Group on the development of Patriot Place, which was built alongside Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. One common aspect of all of Craig’s projects is the need for effective and comprehensive stormwater management designs that fit within the natural site setting, meet the regulatory requirements, operate well over the long term, and fit within a project’s budget. Craig is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
Robert M. Roseen, P.E., Ph.D., The UNHStormwaterCenter
Director, Environmental Research Group
35 Colovos Road University of New Hampshire Durham, NH03824
603-862-4024
Dr Roseen has been the Director of the UNHStormwaterCenter since 2004 and has been involved in the development of the Center since its beginning in 2002. He is a licensed professional engineer and Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. Dr Roseen’s area of expertise is broadly in water resources engineering, stormwater management, and Low Impact Development design.
Leo Pierre Roy, VHB
Managing Director, Environmental and Energy Services Group
101 Walnut Street
Watertown, MA02472
617-924-1770
Leo is the Managing Director of Environmental and Energy Services and a Principal at Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., an ENR 100 engineering, planning, and environmental sciences firm. A LEED AP since 2002, he has served for over four years on the Application Guide for Retail Committee of the US Green Building Council, developing an amended rating system for retail projects in both NC and CI. He has certified over 50 buildings through the EB pilot volume certification process. Mr. Roy’s clients include municipal, state, and federal governments, and private sector developers, retailers, and architects. A recognized expert in sustainable design, specializing in communities, airports, institutions, and retail projects, he is a frequent speaker at national conferences. He spoke at Greenbuild in Austin in 2002, and in Boston in 2008, as well as serving on the local Host Committee for Greenbuild Boston. In his practice at VHB, he actively promotes LID, sustainable development, ecological restoration, and renewable energy, and oversees large, complicated NEPA permitting projects. He has served on the editorial boards of Sustainable Land Development Today and Revitalization magazines. As Undersecretary of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs from 1993 to 1997, Mr. Roy was chief environmental policymaker for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mr. Roy received his B.A. from Harvard and has over 25 years experience managing environmental projects.
E. Allan Spulecki, OLIN
Associate, RLA, RA, ASLA
Public Ledger Building Suite 1123
150 South Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-440-0030
Having joined OLIN in 1995, Allan has managed the design and construction processes for many of OLIN’s signature projects, such as the redesign of Columbus Circle in New York City; the United States Air Force Memorial in Arlington, VA and the Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden at the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles; and currently the Mill River Waterfront Park, in Stamford, CT. He is fluent in the design and construction of building architecture, having practiced as a project architect in the Washington, DC area for almost a decade. His interdisciplinary background has proven invaluable to clients and consultants. He holds a BA in Architecture from the Catholic University of America, as well as a Master of Architecture and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania.
Scott J. Weiss, THE GUTIERREZ COMPANY
Managing Director of Commercial Development
781-272-7000
Scott has 20 years experience implementing creative development strategies, providing innovative engineering solutions and leading extensive community outreach efforts for highly visible and controversial projects. Scott is leading the Company’s “push to green” and is actively managing efforts in Burlington and MetroWest communities including completing Burlington’s first LEED‐certified green office building at 5 Wall Street. Previously, with National Development, Scott managed the land entitlement process, development, financing, design and construction of new and rehabilitated commercial and residential projects such as the Arborpoint apartment community at the MBTA Woodland Station in Newton as well as the establishment of a 40R Smart Growth overlay district in Reading. Prior to National Development, Scott worked as a traffic engineer and permitting expert contributing to the success of projects such as the Natick Collection expansion of the Natick Mall, the Liberty Mutual office building at the interchange of the MassPike at Route 128, the Reebok World Headquarters in Canton and expansion of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Scott is active in NAIOP and serves on the Board of Directors for the 495/MetroWest.
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