Richard Grice, Four Corners Planning
Richard Grice is
president of Four Corners Planning.
His career as an urban planner includes over 32 years of public
planning experience. Early in his carrier,
Richard served as chief current planner for the Aspen/Pitkin County (CO)
Planning Department where he participated in the development of cutting edge
planning tools for preserving local values in a resort-impacted community. He was instrumental in the development of
the Aspen/Pitkin County affordable housing program in the early 80's and
served as the first staff liaison to the Aspen/Pitkin County Housing
Authority in the program’s formative years.
As the Planning Director for San Miguel County, Colorado (Telluride),
Richard drafted the County’s first and only comprehensive plan and land use
code, both of which are still in use today.
Building on his affordable housing experience, he designed San Miguel
County's innovative, market-driven (or “second-market”) Affordable Housing
Program.
In 1999 Richard
teamed with Duncan Associates, a leading national firm specializing in
unified development codes, with Richard Grice serving as project
manager. National client communities
now include: City of Farmington, New
Mexico; City of Prescott, Arizona; Santa Fe County, New Mexico; San Juan
County, New Mexico; City of Baytown, Texas; City of Shawnee, Oklahoma; City
of Missoula, MT; City of Deltona, Florida; Sumter County, Florida; City of
Deltona, Florida; Lincoln County, North Carolina; and City of Waynesboro,
Virginia. National influence of Four
Corners Planning and Richard Grice continues to expand. Mr. Grice
specializes in community visioning, comprehensive plans and modernizing
outdated land use regulatory systems with a user-friendly, integration of
traditional subdivision and zoning regulations into a unified land use and
development code format. Each code is
specifically designed to meet the needs of local jurisdictions facing real
growth pressures, many of which face such pressures with minimal
administrative staff. Our codes are
typically “hybrid codes”, and include traditional, performance as well as
form-based elements. Richard is a
frequent speaker at planning and environmental protection conferences on
small town planning, affordable housing program development and environmental
protection programs. Richard Grice Principal Education: ¨ Bachelor of Science, Management, Mississippi State University, State College, Mississippi ¨ Certificate of Army Corps of Engineers Training (Wetlands Delineation), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ¨ American Institute of Certified Planners Training by Robert H. Freilich & James C. Nicholas; Impact Fees: Paying for Growth; San Diego, California ¨ American Institute of Certified Planners Training by James Berry, Kent Butler and John Leshy Professional
experience: ¨ President, Four Corners Planning, Inc., Telluride, Colorado, 1993 to Present ¨ Director, San Miguel County Planning Department, Telluride, Colorado, 1987 to 1993 ¨ Development Project Manager, Glen Anderson Investments, Austin, Texas, 1985 to1986 ¨ Chief Current Planner, Aspen/Pitkin County Planning Department, Aspen, Colorado, 1978 to 1984 Awards: ¨ New Mexico American Planning Association’s “2004 Chapter Award” for the Farmington Comprehensive Plan ¨ Colorado “Governor’s Smart Growth Award for Quality Urban Design” in 1996 for the Town of Rico ¨ United States Environmental Protection Agency’s 1993 Tribute of Appreciation for San Miguel County Wetland Regulations: "for efforts in the adoption of an innovative, wetland protection program that exceeds the level of protection of the Federal Program" ¨ Colorado State 1993 APA Planning Chapter Award for San Miguel County Wetland Regulations Projects
(Plans): ¨ Bluff (Utah) General Plan ¨ Cedaredge (Colorado) Comprehensive Plan ¨ Dolores (Colorado) Comprehensive Plan ¨ Grand County (Utah) General Plan ¨ Healthy Mountain Communities of the Lower Roaring Fork Valley (Carbondale/Basalt/Glenwood Springs/Garfield County/Eagle County) Comprehensive Affordable Housing Program ¨ Highway 191 North (Grand County, Utah) Area Plan ¨ Mancos (Colorado) Comprehensive Plan ¨ North Gateway (Moab and Grand County, Utah) Area Plan ¨ Norwood (Colorado) Master Plan ¨ Rico (Colorado) Comprehensive Plan ¨ River Road (Grand County, Utah) Area Plan ¨ San Juan County (New Mexico) Land Use Plan ¨ San Miguel County (Colorado) Affordable Housing Action Plan ¨ Steamboat Springs/Routt County (Colorado) Affordable Housing Action Plan ¨ Telluride (Colorado) Regional Area Master Plan ¨ Upper Piedra (Hinsdale County) Comprehensive Plan Projects (Codes): ¨ Bayfield (Colorado) Zoning Ordinance ¨ Baytown (Texas) Land Development Code ¨ Cortez (Colorado) Land Use Code ¨ Deltona (Florida) Land Development Code ¨ Dolores (Colorado) Land Use Code ¨ Farmington (New Mexico) Land Development Code ¨ Grand County (Utah) Land Use Code ¨ Lincoln County (North Carolina) Unified Development Code ¨ Mancos (Colorado) Land Use Code ¨ Missoula (Montana) Zoning Regulations ¨ Norwood (Colorado) Land Use Code ¨ Prescott (Arizona) Land Development Code ¨ San Miguel County (Colorado) Land Use Code ¨ Santa Fe County (New Mexico) Land Development Code ¨ Shawnee (Oklahoma) Land Development Code ¨ Summit County (Colorado) Comprehensive Plan ¨ Sumter County (Florida) Land Development Code ¨ Upper Piedra (Hinsdale County) Zoning Ordinance ¨ Volusia County (Florida) Land Development Code ¨ Waynesboro (Virginia) Zoning Ordinance
In the
words of one former client… "Richard
Grice is a highly motivated, results oriented, code writer. I first had the pleasure of working with
Mr. Grice in Texas in 2004 for the City of Baytown. This experience was so favorable I hired
him for another code writing project in Deltona, Florida in 2006, and again
for Volusia County in 2008. You cannot go wrong working with this
professional!” |
