Paul Zykofsky, AICP, Associate AIA

Director, Land Use and Transportation Programs

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.