Katelyn Wright Email & Phone Number

Syracuse, New York

Founding Executive Director of a county-wide land bank created to assemble blighted, vacant, and abandoned property under single-ownership, engage in preventive maintenance, and market properties for return to productive uses consistent with the community’s Comprehensive Plan.

Primary author of Syracuse's Land Use & Development Plan 2040, which maps the city according to "character areas" that describe a mix of uses, forms, and scale. Approaching the city in this manner sets the stage for an imminent transition to a form-based zoning code.Planner for the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency--planning for strategic revitalization plans that facilitate the combination of public and private investmentData and policy analysisHistoric preservation planning

Ithaca, Ny

Co-instructing a graduate course in historic resource surveys each fall. This is our second year with a new syllabus that places more emphasis on evaluation of built resources in light of historic contexts.

In the course of a full-time summer internship, organized an update of the City's Historic Properties List, in which approximately 1800 properties classified as architecturally significant between the late-1970s and 1993 were reexamined. These properties were reclassified into the following categories: Potentially Locally Eligible, Contributing to a Potential Historic District, Contributing to a Potential Conservation District, or Ineligible. This work involved the creation of a brief Survey Update Field Form, the development of a Microsoft Access database to manage the city's inventory of historic properties (this included the 1800 updated, in addition to approximately 1400 additional properties about which the city held information), and a comprehensive report. This report summarized past inventory efforts in Syracuse, identified gaps in the inventory, and outlined a plan for comprehensive survey and inventory of historic resources in Syracuse. This position also involved managing a team of three additional interns who, for six weeks, provided invaluable help in completing fieldwork.

While finishing my undergraduate degree (and immediately after graduating), I worked for the King County Historic Preservation Program. Initially I completed, along with other KCHP staff, a historic resources survey of agricultural properties - including dairy-, poultry-, and equestrian-related resources - on the Enumclaw Plateau. The survey involved a mixture of reconnaissance and intensive level research and included approximately 170 properties.Later work included the adaptation of several local landmark nominations for the National Register of Historic Places, architectural photography, and providing staff support to the King County Landmarks Commission.

This job entailed approximately 20 hours per week doing windshield and intensive survey fieldwork, research, and the preparation of state historic preservation forms related to Historic Corridors in King County, in order to recommend Historic and Scenic Corridors to be designated by the King County Roads Division.

Master Of Regional Planning, Concentration In Locl Land Use Regulations And Historic Preservation

Activities and Societies: Vice President - Preservation Studies Student Organization; Treasurer - Association for Preservation Technology.

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science; Minor In Architecture

Activities and Societies: This included graduate coursework in Historic Preservation. My minor focused on architectural history.