UF to host lectures on Florida growth management

October 20, 2011

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two planning leaders will discuss the future of Florida’s growth management as part of the Ernest R. Bartley Memorial Lecture Series on Oct. 27 presented by the University of Florida and the department of urban and regional planning.

Charles Pattison of 1000 Friends of Florida and David Tillis of WilsonMiller Stantec Inc. will speak in a discussion titled “Florida’s Growth Management: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?” from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Tillis is a 35-year Florida planning and development professional whose career includes senior level positions at three of Florida’s major community development companies – ITT Community Development Corporation, The St. Joe Company and Bonita Bay Group. Currently, he is senior project manager with Stantec, a full-service planning, engineering and design firm in Jacksonville. Throughout his career, Tillis has specialized in large-scale community planning, entitlement and development. He is a 1977 graduate of UF’s urban and regional planning program and was recognized as its Outstanding Alumnus in 1999.

Pattison has served since 1998 as the executive director of 1000 Friends of Florida. Previously, he was the director for the Division of Resource Planning and Management at the Florida Department of Community Affairs and a former field representative for The Nature Conservancy’s Virginia Coast Reserve. Between 1983 and 1989, he opened the DCA Florida Keys Field Office in Key West, served as the Monroe County Planning, Building and Zoning director, and was the first executive director of the Monroe County Land Authority. Pattison also has served as a planning director in coastal North Carolina and spent five years with the North Carolina Office of Coastal Management in beach access and coastal permitting work. Pattison received an undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University in Raleigh and a master’s in urban and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.