James van Hemert
James van Hemert is the executive director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. He is responsible for the institute’s conferences, seminars, publications, and research endeavors. He has published articles and books on urban planning, Western rural and town land use patterns, the development review process, and development impact fees. He is currently leading the Institute’s Sustainable Community Development Code (Zoning) initiative and its Planning Active Community Environment’s (PLACE) training program.
Van Hemert serves as the president of the Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado’s School of Architecture and Planning and the Sturm College of Law. He received a bachelor’s from Calvin College in Michigan and a master’s in Regional Planning from the University of Waterloo in Canada. He has a wide range of planning and community development experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and has lived and worked in the Toronto region, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Mississippi, and Colorado.
Related Resources suggested by James van Hemert
Floodplain Management Circa 2050: The View from the Land Use Planner’s Vantage Point
By James van Hemert, Western Planners Resources Journal, Forthcoming 2009
Local Strategies for Making Community More Resilient to Coastal Hazards
Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Sustainable Community Development Code Beta Version 1.2
Wildfire Hazard in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Sustainable Community Development Code Beta Version 1.2
Low Impact Development/Green Infrastructure
Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Sustainable Community Development Code Beta Version 1.2
Saving the World through Zoning
By Chris Duerksen, Planning, 2008