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Honoring Maxine Griffith, AICP.
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WHEREAS, Maxine Griffith, AICP was appointed to head the Philadelphia City Planning Commission in 2000, and has held the dual position of Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission and Secretary for Strategic Planning. In these roles, Ms. Griffith has overseen land use planning, zoning, environmental review, urban design, and capital budget coordination for the City of Philadelphia; and
WHEREAS, Maxine Griffith earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College in New York and a Master's degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. Ms. Griffith has completed coursework in Urban Planning and Real Property Development at Harvard University; and
WHEREAS, Maxine Griffith is both a well respected academic and practitioner in the field of Planning and Architecture. She has taught city planning and urban design at Columbia University and New York University, and is presently a lecturer in urban planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Griffith has served on the national board of the American Planning Association and is presently a member of the Planning Accreditation Board, the organization that accredits schools of Planning in the United States. Ms. Griffith's professional excellence has been recognized with a National American Planning Association Award and the Phillip A. Payton Award for her work in distressed minority communities; and
WHEREAS, Before coming to Philadelphia, Ms. Griffith was the Senior Fellow for Community Planning and Development at the Regional Plan Association in New York, where she developed an interrelated group of community-oriented programs. She also served in the Clinton administration at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, first as the Secretary's Regional Representative for New York and New Jersey and then in Washington as HUD's Assistant Deputy Secretary. As Assistant Deputy...
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