Senior Land Use Field Representative
Albemarle & Greene counties
(434) 977-2033 x7049
[email protected]

Rob serves as a Senior Land Use Field Representative for PEC. His work involves advocating for responsible public policies covering land use, transportation, cultural and natural resources, and climate change in Albemarle and Greene counties in central Virginia. Rob’s planning advocacy focuses on comprehensive plans, small area plans, and zoning ordinances. Working with communities and allied organizations, he advocates for smart growth in urban areas, protection of rural communities and resources, access to parks and open spaces, affordable housing, protected water supply infrastructure, renewable energy, and resilience planning. His responsibilities include reviewing and assessing zoning map amendments and special use permits for land development projects as well as proposals for new energy generation and transmission infrastructure. Rob’s work includes collaborating with PEC’s land conservation professionals and extensive community and local government engagement.

Prior to joining PEC, Rob was in private practice for over 30 years providing planning and design services to federal, state, and local governments, non-profit organizations, and private sector clients throughout the US and abroad. His work focused on parks and open spaces, educational campuses, museums, governmental facilities, and civic spaces. In addition to landscape architectural design, Rob’s expertise included landscape management planning, cultural landscape preservation and interpretation, and the planning and design of visitor facilities and experiences for park and educational clients.

For the Commonwealth of Virginia, Rob has served on the Virginia Outdoors Plan Technical Advisory Committee and the Virginia History Initiative in the mid-1990s, and more recently the Capitol Square Preservation Council. As a member of the Government Affairs Committee of the Virginia Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects for the two past decades, Rob has advocated for environmentally-focused General Assembly legislation as well as state-level regulations.

Over the past thirty years, Rob has held adjunct teaching appointments at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. In 2015, Rob was appointed a Distinguished Fellow in the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes, a pan-University center producing research and new models of innovative cultural landscape stewardship in the region, the nation, and around the globe.