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
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
March 31st, 2012
The Monterey County Herald
Herald Staff Report, 08/07/2013
Herald Staff Report, 08/07/2013
By MARY SCHLEY, The Carmel Pine Cone
Published: August 9, 2013
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