Brian Mooney

Biographie : Brian F Mooney FAICP has over 45 years of professional experience specializing in planning, public outreach, environmental analysis, research, and development of public policy. His extensive experience includes preparation, coordination, and completion of comprehensive urban and rural master plans for counties, cities, towns, special districts, and tribal governments. Brian’s experience also includes leading the preparation of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents such as environmental impact reports (EIRs) and environmental impact statements (EISs). His areas of expertise focus on his training and experience in understanding the complex physical, cultural, political, and legal issues of planning and developing communities. Examples of his planning work can be found throughout California, Colorado, Washington, Arizona and Nevada in the form of City and County General Plans with an environmental focus, Master Plan Communities with a historic and environment design orientation, Downtown Specific Plans and extensive work with Tribal Governments for planning on Reservations . As both founder and Managing Principal of one of California’s first multi-disciplined community planning and environmental studies firms, he has been responsible for establishing a distinct planning approach that integrates environmental, cultural and economic values into both the visioning and planning process. His work with local government and the private sector has been recognized with both regional and statewide awards by the American Planning Association (APA), the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP), the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and local government agencies for numerous planning and environmental studies. Brian is also and accomplished documentary film screen writer and producer with films including the "Nolen Plan: Vision, Politics and Memory in San Diego, with the University of San Diego and KPBS "Changing Faces, Changing Places" with the California American Planning Association and "Connecting Paradise" with the San Diego-Tijuana ULI.