Alison Spindler-Ruiz, Aicp Email & Phone Number

Long Beach, California, United States

Oversees and guides the the Planning Bureau for the City of Long Beach. The Bureau's work program includes: updating, maintaining and implementing the City's General Plan; guiding residents and property owners through entitlement and development review permitting and processes; developing and implementing policies and programs to reduce the city's carbon.

Long Beach, California, United States

Served in an acting capacity as Planning Bureau Manager during the recruitment period for the permanent position.

Long Beach, California, United States

• Managed the Advance Planning Division which includes long-range, environmental, and historic preservation planning. Oversees twelve staff including planners, administrative, and clerical staff. Ongoing projects include.
• Responsible for and oversaw the operation of the Advance Planning Division by providing day-to-day direction to and supervision of twelve professional and support staff in the division as well as various consultants.
• Provided professional recommendations and support to the City Council, Planning Commission, and City Management.
• Served as staff liaison to the Cultural Heritage Commission and historic preservation community, including staffing meetings, overseeing preparation of all staff reports, and Certificates of Appropriateness that are.
• Improved the Bureau’s operations and finances using educational background from master’s in Public Administration, as well as experience working in the City’s Budget Office, to adjust budgets, spending and reporting to.
• Identified and executed strategies and processes for addressing structural and systemic inequities related to planning and development.

• Served as the lead Planner and project manager on: the General Plan Land Use & Urban Design Element updates, development of the City’s first-ever Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, and UPLAN zoning code update for.
• Designed and led a team to execute community engagement strategies and processes for the Bureau.
• Developed an outreach policy for the Planning Bureau to incorporate community engagement best practices, improve Planning’s relationship with the community, increase transparence and engage communities most impacted by.
• Wrote successful grants and award applications, including a recently awarded $800,000 Caltrans Sustainable Communities grant for the UPLAN Phase 2 zoning code update.
• Led special projects with the City’s Finance Department to bridge the City’s long-range planning and budgetary decisions. This includes an analysis of citywide unfunded needs examined in the context of potential.
• Participated in cross-departmental initiatives that align with Advance Planning, such as the City Manager’s Livability Strike Team, the Vision Zero Technical Advisory Committee, the Parks Equity analysis team and the.

Long Beach, CA

Planner III in the Advance Planning Division. Key projects include support for updating the city's Land Use Element, developing a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, Housing Element Workplan and analysis, developing a Vacant Lot Registry, revising sidewalk dining/streetdeck development standards, and Streetlet demonstration projects. Processes current.

• Completed four department rotations in the City of Long Beach in: the Department of Development Services, Department of Financial Management, the City Manager’s Office and the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Worked with the Grants Administration Officer in the Department of Development Services to develop, coordinate and draft the application for a federal Promise Zone designation through the Housing and Urban Development.
• Conducted research for the Planning Division under the Planning Bureau Manager in the Department of Development Services, including on micro-units permitting, transportation and housing trends.
• Participated in site plan review meetings, shadowed planning staff at the permit counter, and attended Bureau Manager meetings in the Department of Development Services.
• Worked with the Finance Director and Assistant Finance Director on special projects including a Smart Parking Meter analysis for City Council, audit responses, and a minimum wage implementation model.
• Conducts research and writes memos for Legislative Affairs in the City Manager’s Office, including on: affordable housing bills, the LA County Metropolitan Transportation Agency’s proposed transportation funding ballot.

• Research Assistant to Professors David Sloane and LaVonna Lewis on a CDC-funded national demonstration project in South LA to improve community health by reducing hypertension and obesity rates. The grant is.
• Serves as part of the USC Evaluation Team to develop and implement ways to measure the successes of creating a community-based model for improving health in underserved, heavily minority communities.
• Firsthand and secondhand research including meeting observation, Community Planning analysis, Health Impact Assessments (HIAs), community surveying, and evaluation planning.

• Assists Graduate Studies Program Director Marlon Boarnet with the Urban Planning program’s re-accreditation process for 2013 evaluation through the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB).
• Plans, facilitates and produces documentation from faculty and leadership meetings towards refining program’s mission, goals, learning objectives and success measures.
• Collects, compiles and analyzes program data for inclusion in accreditation report

Greater Los Angeles Area

Earned a Dual Masters in Urban Planning and Public Administration at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, specializing in community health planning, food systems policy and planning, and community engagement.

Greater Boston Area

As Program Director, I was responsible for the implementation, management, supervision and evaluation of Building Impact’s volunteer engagement program and program staff. Additional responsibilities included new business cultivation and development.I began at Building Impact as a Community Connector, running community involvement programs in office and.

Greater Boston Area

Started as an Americorps Tutor at Match, a high performing charter high school in Boston. Took on responsibility working under the Executive Director as a recruiter then in special projects, helping lay the ground work for opening Match's Middle School

Master Of Planning / Master Of Public Administration, Urban & Regional Planning; Public Administration

Activities and Societies: President, Partnership for an Equitable Los Angeles (PELA)

Ba, International Relations, Environment & Development, And French Language