Peter Collins Email & Phone Number

Beaverton, Or, Us

• South Waterfront Community Relations' mission is to develop and promote community building activities in Portland's South Waterfront, which will mitigate community deterioration and benefit the community as a whole.• Community Relations also works with residents and employees to encourage transportation options and promote smart land use development through its Transportation Management Association extension. • Utilizing the 'Main Street' concept, the neighborhood elevates livability through clean and safe programs and community building projects.• Projects include a 5-month annual Farmers Market, community garden, movies/concerts in the park, speaking series, community newsletter, social media, retail collective, etc.• In 2011, South Waterfront became one of five pilot EcoDistricts in the Portland Metro region.

Pete Collins has worked in a variety of planning positions, generally focusing on TDM program management and parking demand management. Pete brings a keen understanding of how to balance meaningful parking practices/policies with innovative, localized TDM strategies. Pete joined RWC in 2012, and has since worked on a number of parking planning efforts for numerous west coast jurisdictions and private entities. From facilitating parking survey teams to researching best practices to analyzing parking uses to ‘right size’ a particular development or shared use structure, Pete brings a multifaceted approach to RWC as their Senior Associate. Pete has assisted on the creation of parking technical memos, strategic reports, parking data collections/analysis, and guiding policy documents for the jurisdictions/private entities below. RWC believes in sound, unbiased data driving local parking decisions for the betterment of the community as a whole.

• Managed a month long commute challenge with over 4,500 participants & analyzed metrics• Developed local partnerships to increase advocacy goals• Wrote grant proposals, maintained website & online media content, managed small staff, etc.

Oregon City, Oregon, Us

• Quality controlled for sound geographic and attribute data in an ArcSDE format • Conducted spatial analysis and produced maps for city, town and county using multiple data sources

• Worked in long-range planning issues, including coordination and research of subdistrict profiles for the Central City Plan • Collected and analyzed census, housing, zoning, planning/policy data and growth projections• Synthesized and compiled a report on the public comment phase of the Central City Plan

Researched 'social marketing' programs/efforts to reduce drive alone tripsCo-created/maintained web-survey assessing driving forces behind mixed used development in best practice communities around the United States

• Researched and edited 2005 Open Space Plan • Authored Agricultural Commission & Right-To-Farm Ordinance; conducted stakeholder meetings with City Councilors, local farmers, concerned citizens

Certificate, Gis - Urban Studies

Mrp, Regional Planning

Bachelor Of Arts, Studio Art; Liberal Arts Curriculum; Courses In Anthropology, Economics, Philosophy, Psychology