Portsmouth, NH 03801
603.373.8651 phone
603.986.6007 alternate
Retain TND
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430 Richards Ave Portsmouth, NH 03801 603.373.8651 phone 603.986.6007 alternate Retain TND |
Chester E. “Rick” Chellman has more than twenty-five years experience in zoning, civil engineering, land surveying, engineering consulting, traffic engineering and development/urban planning. Mr. Chellman has site planning, civil and forensic engineering, zoning, expert testimony and land use experience throughout the United States of America and to lesser extents in Canada, the United Kingdom, Central America and India. In recent years, Mr. Chellman has also worked extensively on the engineering and traffic engineering aspects of Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND), and New Urbanism (NU) particularly in connection with the matters of street design, vehicular and human-powered traffic control and external transportation connections. Mr. Chellman has authored and co-authored numerous works on topics related to the traffic and transportation aspects of TND/NU design.
Mr. Chellman founded White Mountain Survey Co., Inc., a multi-disciplinary firm that focuses on projects in New Hampshire, in 1977. He more recently founded TND Engineering, a specialty firm addressing engineering consulting and Traditional Neighborhood Development and New Urbanism at all levels and at any location. TND Engineering’s primary focus concerns street design and transportation planning.
Mr. Chellman has extensive experience in public participatory planning events. This experience includes participation in dozens of charrettes, primarily in North America. In these charrettes, new towns, extensions to existing towns, and other engineering/planning exercises have been accomplished; other similar charrettes have focused on the drafting of land use ordinances and/or comprehensive (master) plans. Mr. Chellman has also written several land use regulations and zoning ordinances by more conventional means.
Mr. Chellman was also awarded a Knight Fellowship from the University of Miami in 2003, and he has lectured at Harvard University and the Universities of New Hampshire, California, Pennsylvania, Texas and New Mexico.
Examples of recent work include: teaching a Civitas master class in Woking, UK for the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment; drafting the transportation aspects of the Los Alamos, New Mexico Downtown revitalization plan. Additional recent experience includes traffic calming/urban and transportation design work in: Mid-Island redevelopment of Nantucket, Massachusetts; Route 138 in Kingstown, Rhode Island; Albuquerque New Mexico; Tucson Arizona; Chocorua Village, New Hampshire; parking analysis for downtown Santa Monica California; and transportation aspects of the Lancaster Corridor (removal of an overhead interstate) in Fort Worth Texas.
Mr. Chellman has also recently worked: in Hull, U.K. on the “taming” of Castle Street; on the transportation aspects of the Cornell University West Campus Residential Initiative in Cornell, New York; on the design of an urban extension to Crewkerne, Somerset, UK for a collaboration between the Prince’s Foundation and George Wimpey Homes (winner of CNU 2006 Charter Award); on the design of four new towns in Guatemala and El Salvador; the interface between a new large and private toll road and a new town in Guatemala; several California city specific plans; and corridor and design details for the Al Rayyan corridor in Doha, Qatar and Al Salaam street in Abu Dahbi, UAE.
Mr. Chellman also headed up the traffic and transportation team for the Mississippi Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal charrette in the Fall of 2005 in which eleven Gulf Coast communities were re-planned following Hurricane Katrina (msrenewalcoalition.org and mississippirenewal.com).
Licensed in more than forty (40) jurisdictions in the United States, including all of New England, New York, Texas, and California.
Licensed in New Hampshire and Maine
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Flexible Street Design Planning 2020 Design of Traditional Neighborhood Streets Design of Traditional Neighborhood Streets
Neo-Traditional Neighborhood Design
Context Directed Street Design
Designing Safer Streets for Pedestrians
Context Directed Street Design |
TND Transportation Design-Rewriting Suburban DNA
Street Design for Town Planning
Congress for the New Urbanism #12
Civitas (Urban Design Master Class)
South Village and Context Directed Street
GrowSmart Maine
Mayor’s Institute on City Design
Mayor’s Institute on City Design
SmartCode Workshop
South Carolina Land Use Conference |
| Charrette Experience: |
Participant in more than 100 multi-disciplinary design charrettes in the U.S., Canada and London, U.K., since approximately 1988, focusing on New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Design. Team participant with Duany Plater-Zyberk, Moule & Polyzoides, Calthorpe & Assoc. and others for new communities, extensions to existing communities, the enhancement/redevelopment of existing communities and land use regulation drafting and modifications. |
| Municipal Experience: |
Recent Chairman of the elected Board of Selectmen for the Town of Tuftonboro, New Hampshire; nine year member of the Tuftonboro Planning Board, including professional assistance in the completion of the Town’s Master Plan; and two years service on the Tuftonboro Zoning Board of Adjustment. |
| Expert Witness: |
Expert qualification and testimony as an Engineer and Land Surveyor in District, Superior and Federal District Courts. |
| Board Member: | Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), retired 1998; current member CNU New England Chapter. |
| Author/Principal Author of: |
The Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) Zoning Ordinance (text form) “Design Speed and Related Matters for Neotraditional Neighborhoods” Submitted to 1994 Transportation Research Board “Street Design: Design Intent, History, and Emerging Concepts”, Land Development, Spring-Summer 1995, National Association of Home Builders
Traditional Neighborhood Development Street Design Guidelines, A
Recommended Practice of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE),
October 1999 “CNU Transporation Design Guidelines”, Congress for New Urbanism, draft February, 1997 |
| Co-Author: |
“Neo-Traditional Neighborhood Design and Its Implications for Traffic Engineering” 1991 Institute of Transportation Engineers Annual Meeting Best Paper; also in January 1992 issue ITE Journal “New Town Ordinances and Codes” New Classicism Omnibus Volume, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, NY 1990 “Traffic Engineering for Neo-Traditional Neighborhood Design” February, 1994 Institute of Transportation Engineers, Washington, D.C. “Architectural Graphic Standards”, current section on Traditional Neighborhood Development street design |
| Technical Advisor: |
"Cities in the Balance: Creating the Transit-Friendly Environment" 1993, a 23 minute videotape produced by the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board in cooperation with the ITE and ASCE. |
ITE Technical Committee #5P-8 “Traffic Engineering for Traditional
Neighborhood Developments”
ASCE Urban Transportation Division Planning Committee
Past Board member, First NH Bank
Director of Development, NewMedico associates, Boston and Lynn Massachusetts, 1987-1991; supervised site acquisitions, architect selection & developmental approvals for post-acute head trauma facilities throughout US (approximately $300 million in construction/adaptation and renovation).
American Society of Civil Engineers
Congress for the New Urbanism
Institute of Transportation Engineers (F)
Maine Land Surveyors Association
National Society of Professional
Engineers
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