SCHMITZ & ASSOCIATES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Planning Assistant to the President
As GIS Manager, Ben uses his analytical skills in project research matters, provides thoughtful forward planning services, and assist clients in obtaining the requisite entitlements for their residential, commercial, and industrial projects. He is skilled in ESRI ArcGIS and has created maps and exhibits that have been used in presentations before the City of Malibu, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, and the California Coastal Commission.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Senior Planner
As a Senior Planner, Brian has experience in public and private sector environmental land use planning, including transportation as an Associate Environmental Planner for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Brian's proven ability includes long range, advanced and current planning with the capacity to lead teams, manage projects, and navigate complex issues. A forward-thinking urban planner that delivers visionary projects to improve the quality of life in housing and community development.
A Licensed California Attorney and Certified Professional Planner with a distinguished background of accomplishments in Municipal, Residential, Commercial and Agricultural Planning and Consulting. Uniquely qualified, combining a comprehensive knowledge of the field with outstanding organizational, communication and client relations skills.
Job Titles:
- Special Projects & Regulatory Affairs Manager
- Special Projects Manager With
Cynthia Martin is a licensed attorney and Special Projects Manager with Schmitz & Associates, Inc. Cynthia maneuvers land use clients through the entitlement and development process including project submittals as well as governmental hearings and appeals. She also prepares feasibility studies to provide preliminary assessment of development standards and policies impacting land development projects, including evaluating potential developmental constraints and likelihood of obtaining governmental project approval. When compliance is not feasible, Cynthia analyzes proposed compliance alternatives to mapped ESHA areas, USGS blue line streams, flood plains and other developmental constraints by utilizing transfer development credits, open space easements and proposed legislative changes. Her experience includes advocating with regulatory agencies having an impact on land development including, but not limited to, the California Coastal Commission, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Fish and Wildlife, California State Lands Commission and County and City regulatory agencies (continue scrolling for more)…
Education
Daryl was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California. He graduated Mark Keppel High School in 1972 and went directly into construction. Daryl has over 25 years of experience in multiple phases of the Construction Trades. Additionally, Daryl attended the Associated Training Tech. academy and after 2 years of attendance, he received his International Code Council certification for Residential and Commercial Building Inspection. In 2006 he obtained obtained ICC certification in Residential and Commercial Plan Review.
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant to the President
- Office Manager
Job Titles:
- Assistant Planner
- Founder and President of the Coalition for Fire Safe Communities
- President and Principal Planner
Don Schmitz, AICP, is President and Principal Planner of Schmitz & Associates, Inc., a land use consulting firm specializing in land development entitlements, strategic planning, project management, and government affairs and advocacy. With over 28 years of planning experience, Mr. Schmitz is recognized as one of the State's preeminent experts in coastal land use planning.
Scott Hoeft is the Director of Planning at Schmitz & Associates, where he oversees all of the firm's projects and leads a team of expert professionals. Mr. Hoeft experience and expertise is derived from a long career in assessing land, managing difficult entitlements processes, coordinating professionals, and leading the regulatory entitlements through the public hearing process. He has a strategic mind-set for project oversight and management, due diligence and site evaluation. Mr. Hoeft's work history and education has served to bridge the gap between the public sector's regulatory responsibility and the private sector's market-driven supply of product and community. Mr. Hoeft enjoys deal formulation, fatal flaw analysis, and sizing up the potential of property, buildings, and land development opportunities.
Mr. Hoeft was the vice-president and partner in Santa Fe Planning Group, Inc., (SFPG) for 16-years. Mr. Hoeft established SFPG as a successful land-planning and entitlements firm dedicated to enhancing land development and the design of properties throughout the western states. SFPG built a solid reputation of integrity, specifically working with neighborhood groups and associations prior to the commencement of development projects. At SFPG, Mr. Hoeft assisted land owners, land developers, and builders in the conceptualization, design and/or implementation, owner's representation, and permitting of hundreds of projects. Some of Mr. Hoeft's work includes a 65-acre mixed use commercial center with multifamily and retail uses, the development of a 4300-acre golf course master planned community with 1717 lots and two Jack Nicklaus Golf Courses, spa and tennis center, and equestrian uses, the entitlements of two multifamily projects with more the 240 du each, the coordination and construction of a privately funded highway interchange, the adaptive reuse of a 50,000 sf commercial mall for a private school, the redevelopment of a 144-room resort and spa, the development of movie sound stages, the creation of dozens of small and large lot subdivisions, the completion of site selection for a variety of retail uses and new headquarters office buildings, and the permitting for a variety of light industrial uses such as a solar farm, a gravel operation, and asphalt batch plant.