Thursday, August 15, 2013

ROBERT MULLANE (AICP): New Community Planning & Building Director

ABSTRACT:  After nearly ten years without a Community Planning & Building Director, the City announced the hiring of a new Community Planning & Building Director, Robert Mullane, American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), on August 6, 2013.  Mullane is set to start on Monday, August 26, 2013 and will receive a $154,000 annual salary, according to reporting in The Monterey County Herald.  Mulane’s EMPLOYMENT HISTORY, EDUCATION are featured; and RELATED INFORMATION, INTERVIEW & NEWS ARTICLE links are provided.  Interestingly, when asked by Ojai Valley News (OVN) “What are your proudest achievements in municipal work so far?”  Mullane responded: “I think in my capacity at Rincon Consultants, I provided staffing of their planning department, and carried forth both important projects, and important changes to their planning code. One of those was setting the building code for city of Guadalupe, which previously had a lot of flaws. That was a good experience.”
“Another would be a large coastal land swap for the city of Goleta when they hired me. It was a pretty complex land swap, basically it involved selling a portion of a coastal park to a developer, moving (the development) away from a very environmentally sensitive area. Development of that piece of property had been tied up in litigation for years and years. Once the city brought forth the idea of a land swap and gave the developer the opportunity to develop on part of the park, it allowed movement forward of the Ellwood Mesa land swap. And I was involved in the review of that development, some of the arrangement for the land swap. There was $21 million in fund raising (because the size of the new property was substantially smaller than what the developer was giving up). Ultimately, that project went on to win American Planning Association recognition at state level, as well as the Helen Putnam Award. It was a prestigious accomplishment. And it involved a low-scale development of a parking lot, the city of Goleta, the city of Santa Barbara, and UCSB. It’s gratifying to see the parking lot (in the finished development), and also the butterflies in wintertime, raptors, all kinds of hawks. It’s very satisfying. It’s a really beautiful spot.”
  
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Community Development Director
Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Government Administration industry
March 2012 – August 2013 (1 year 6 months)

Planning Manager
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Environmental Services industry
June 2007 – March 2012 (4 years 10 months)

Senior Planner
Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Government Administration industry
June 2003 – June 2007 (4 years 1 month)

Planner III
Government Agency; 1-10 employees; Public Safety industry
January 2001 – June 2003 (2 years 6 months)

Coastal Processes Extension Agent
University of Hawaii Sea Grant
September 1996 – January 2001 (4 years 5 months)

EDUCATION
M.S., Geology and Geophysics
1993 – 1996

B.S., Geology
1989 – 1993

RELATED INFORMATION, INTERVIEW & NEWS ARTICLE

City of Ojai

Ojai Valley News Blog
March 31st, 2012 

The Monterey County Herald
Herald Staff Report, 08/07/2013

By MARY SCHLEY, The Carmel Pine Cone
Published: August 9, 2013

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