Thomas Eitler

Biography: Thomas Eitler, AICP Senior Vice President, Advisory Services ULI-the Urban Land Institute Washington, DC Tom Eitler is a Senior Vice President for the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit education and research institute that focuses on issues of land use, real estate and urban development. The mission on the Institute is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. Since 1947, ULI has been conducting panels that provide strategic advice to communities and organizations on a wide variety of real estate, planning, and urban design and public policy subjects. Mr. Eitler manages the professional team that makes these advisory panels possible. Mr. Eitler is an urban planner and land use professional with more than 25 years of experience in land development, comprehensive planning, revitalization, historical preservation, transportation systems, military installation master planning, and sustainable design. He is an expert on US zoning law, municipal codes, and urban design and government operations. He has prepared and conducted dozens of community engagement plans, charettes, advisory groups, workshops and panels. Mr. Eitler has authored numerous plans, studies, strategies and reports on urban planning, design, land economics, public administration and real estate development. He was the principle author of the Urban Land Institute’s “Ten Principles for Building Healthy Places”. He has directed projects in both the public and private sector in a variety of locations throughout the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Prior to joining the Urban Land Institute Mr. Eitler was a principal with Community Planning Associates LLC, a land planning consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. Before that he was Director of Operations for the Onyx Group, a planning and architectural firm with offices in Virginia, California, and Hawaii.?Prior to that, he was a principal planner with a number of local governments, including Chief of the Long Range Planning for Prince William County Virginia where he established the County’s first urban growth boundary initiative, traditional neighborhood design ordinance and financial guidance for its impact fee system. He has a Masters in Urban & Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture and three undergraduate degrees in urban studies, political science and public administration.?Mr. Eitler is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the land economics society Lambda Alpha International and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. (Sept 2018)