Paul Zykofsky, AICP, Associate AIA, has been director
of land use and transportation programs at the Local Government Commission and has
managed its Center for Livable Communities since 1995. Mr. Zykofsky has experience
in land-use, air quality and transportation planning gained while working at a city
development agency, an air quality management district and a council of governments.
He is co-author of documents on transit-oriented development and street design and
has edited numerous documents on sustainable development and community design. During
the past four years, Mr. Zykofsky has directed a first-of-its-kind project — in
collaboration with the California Department of Health Services — to promote
physical activity by improving the design of the pedestrian environment. He currently
directs the LGC’s Active Living Leadership project, part of a national initiative
supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Mr. Zykofsky is a frequent presenter at local, regional and national
conferences and serves on the Steering Committee of the Rail-Volution conference, an
annual national conference on building livable communities with transit. Mr. Zykofsky
has experience facilitating public workshops and planning processes, and is certified
to conduct trainings on the following topics: walkable communities (for Caltrans
and the California Department of Health Services), Safe Routes to School (for the Federal
Highway Administration), and Pedestrian Safety (for the Federal Highway Administration).
He also was one of four instructors that developed and administered 3-day classes on
Context Sensitive Solutions to several hundred planners and engineers in Caltrans district
offices. For
the past few years Mr. Zykofsky has given a one-day class on infill development through
the U.C. Davis Extension Program.
Mr. Zykofsky obtained the degrees of Bachelor of Architecture, summa cum laude, and
Master of Urban Planning (Urban Design) from the City College of New York. He is a
member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, an Associate Member of the
American Institute of Architects and a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism.
Mr. Zykofsky was born and raised in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish.
Paul
Zykofsky, AICP, Associate AIA