Planning Team
The City of Lowell’s Planning and Development Department (DPD) is collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of consultants, led by Utile, a planning firm. Check out the Lowell Forward Planning Team and Steering Committee members below!
City Staff
Senior Planner
Chief Design Planner
Neighborhood Planner
Associate Planner
Design Planner
Planning & Design Consultants
Principal-in-Charge
Project Manager & Urban Planner
Deputy Manager & Engagement Lead
Senior Urban Designer & Planner
Urban Planner
Graphic Designer
Community Organizer
Senior Analyst, HR&A Advisors
Principal, Nelson\Nygaard
Principal, Brown, Richardson + Rowe
VP & Director of Planning, Tetra Tech
Senior Associate, Rivera Consulting
President & Founder, MAPA Translations
Steering Committee
- Adam Baacke, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Campus Development at UMass Lowell
- Bopha S. Boutselis, Resident & Educator at Lowell Public Schools
- Joseph Boyle, Resident & Project Manager at Coalition for a Better Acre
- Leslie Briones, Resident
- Allison Chambers, VP of Finance and CFO at Middlesex Community College
- Yun-Ju Choi, Resident & Executive Director of Coalition for a Better Acre
- George DeLuca, Resident
- Melissa Desroches, Resident & Educator at Lowell Public Schools
- Jackie Doherty, Resident & School Committee Member
- Perry Downs, Resident & Conservation Commission Member
- Maxine Farkas, Resident
- Neyder Fernandez, Student Body President at UMass Lowell
- Gerard Frechette, Resident & Planning Board Member
- Suzanne Frechette, Resident & Development Director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell
- Levenia Furusa, Resident
- Valerie Galvao, Resident
- Ron Gentle, Resident
- Ryan Gilday, Resident
- Amada Gregory, Resident
- John Hamblet, Resident
- Christopher Hayes, Resident & Housing and Economic Development Planner and Northern Middlesex Council of Governments
- Austin Hill, Resident
- Cormac Hondros-McCarthy, Resident & Lowell Sustainability Council Member
- Vaughn Horn, Resident
- Carl Howell, Chief Operating Officer at Community Teamwork, Inc.
- Dean Jenkins, Local Developer
- Kerry Jenness, Resident, Lowell Historic Board Member, & First Assistant City Solicitor at City of Lowell
- Wayne Jenness, Resident & City Council Member
- Belinda Juran, Resident
- Felice Kincannon, Resident
- Lauran Lamarre Anderson, Resident & Business Owner of Lala Books
- Allison Lamey, Resident & Executive Director of the Lowell Plan/Lowell Development and Financial Corporation
- Matt Lucas, Resident
- Dennis McCarthy, Resident & Zoning Board of Appeals Member
- Rita Mercier, Resident & City Council Member
- Dennis Mercier, Resident & Chair of the Pawtucketville Citizen Council
- Vivan Merrill, Small Business Owner of E&V Merrill Insurance Group
- Steven Thurston Oliver, Resident & Professor at Salem State University
- Tania Ormonde, Resident
- Luciano Paskevicius, Resident
- Sanary Phen, Resident & Program Coordinator at Coalition for a Better Acre
- Michelle Rivera, Resident
- Juan Carlos Rivera, Director of Operations at Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lowell
- Narin Sinuon, Resident
- Steven Thurston Oliver, Resident
- Beth Tripathi, Resident
- Bobby Tugbiyele, Resident & CEO of The Leap Network, LLC
- David Turcotte, Resident & Research Professor at UMass Lowell
- Mona Tyree Harris, Resident
- Enrique Vargas, Resident & Associate Director at Mill City Grows
- Louisa Varnum, Resident & Conservation Commission Member
- Mary Wambui-Ekop, Resident
- Barbara Warren, Division Director of Housing and Homeless Services at Community Teamwork, Inc.
- Ethan Yang, Resident