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• Health and environmental justice planning and analysis, Health Impact Assessments (HIAs), Health
<br /> in all Policies Initiatives (HiAP), and healthy development checklists
<br /> • Community engagement programs, meeting facilitation, policy/program strategy, skills training,
<br /> and website design
<br /> • Community assessments, impact and developmental evaluation, and organizational strategic
<br /> planning
<br /> • Technical assistance, project management and contract staffing
<br /> Our Team
<br /> Raimi + Associates has attracted talented planners, advocates, researchers, and evaluators. Most have
<br /> advanced degrees as well as AICP and/or LEED certification. More importantly, they have decades of
<br /> practical experience leading planning projects in the public, private, nonprofit, and higher education
<br /> sectors. Please see staff biographies below and full-page individual resumes in Appendix A.
<br /> r� Matt Raimi, AICP I President + Principal
<br /> P1.11111111 Matt is the founder of R+A and has over 25 years of planning experience across the
<br /> country. He has directed numerous comprehensive plans, specific plans, corridor
<br /> Plans, vision plans, healthy community plans, and other complex planningProj
<br /> projects
<br /> throughout the country. Matt is an expert in creating inclusive and authentic public
<br /> �� planning processes and creating more equitable, resilient, and sustainable cities. Matt
<br /> worked on the Kaua'i General Plan and served as the Principal-in-Charge of the
<br /> Primary Urban Center Development Plan in Honolulu.
<br /> Ron Whitmore, PhD, AICP I Principal
<br /> Ron brings 25 years of public sector planning, private consulting, and non-profit
<br /> r µ experience. Ron has led a variety of complex planning projects, including General
<br /> 1 Plans, community plans, suitability analysis, climate adaptation plans, and housing
<br /> ,A plans. For 13 years, he played senior leadership roles in the planning and
<br /> development departments in Hawai'i County—as Principal Planner and Interim
<br /> Manager of the Long Range Division, he led the General Plan, community plan, and
<br /> CIP programs. Ron was project manager for the Ka'U Community Development Plan,
<br /> which was recognized with a Hawai'i APA Best Practice award for its groundbreaking
<br /> engagement and implementation-focused design. He is currently managing the
<br /> Climate Action and Adaptation Plan for the County of Kaua'i and the Central Maui
<br /> Community Plan.
<br /> Simran Malhotra, AICP, AAIA I Vice-President + Principal
<br /> Simran's background in planning, urban design, and architecture brings a distinctive
<br /> k1idesign perspective to all her projects leading to the creation of vibrant, attractive, and
<br /> thriving places. She has authored plans for many types of urban environments, in
<br /> W. ' particular, TOD/mixed use districts, downtowns, historic and residential
<br /> neighborhoods, commercial corridors, and educational campuses. These community-
<br /> based planning and urban design efforts have achieved notable implementation.
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