First Coast APA Who We Are

FIRST COAST APA OFFICERS & BOARD
Stephen Tocknell, AICP
Chair

Anthony S. Robbins, AICP
Vice Chair and Program Officer

Donald Smith, AICP
Treasurer

Dawn C. Sonneborn, AICP
Secretary and Communications Officer

Mark David Major, AICP
Immediate Past Chair

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Wiatt F. Bowers, AICP

Alyce Decker, AICP
Professional Development Officer

Jennifer Hewett-Apperson, AICP

Frederick Jones, AICP
Membership Officer

Steven Lindorff, AICP
Legislative Officer

Guy Parola, AICP

Elizabeth Payne, AICP

Duncan Ross, AICP

Betty Sue Stepp, AICP

Al Walker, AICP

WHO WE ARE

The First Coast Section of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) serves its membership in Baker, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam and St. Johns Counties.

APA and its professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), are organized to advance the art and science of planning and to foster the activity of planning -- physical, economic, and social -- at the local, regional, state, and national level. The objective of APA is to encourage planning that will contribute to the development of communities and environments that meet the needs of people and of society more effectively.

The purpose of the First Coast Section of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association is the study and advancement of the art and science of local, regional, state, and national planning; the furtherance of the interests of the profession; the promotion of fellowship among members of the Section; Chapter and Association, all in the particular sphere of planning of the unified development of urban communities and their environs and of states, regions and the nation; and, such other purposes as the Association may time to time declare.

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