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 North America and, works on topics related to the traffic and transportation aspects of TND design.
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, and has assisted many communities and planregulations and zoning ordinances by more conventional means, and has assisted many communities and planning teams with calibrating the SmartCode to local conditions.
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; 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 several new towns in Guatemala, Costa Rica and El Salvador; the interface between a new large and private toll road and a new town in Guatemala; several California city specific plans; the redevelopment/redesign of the Al Salam Street corridor in Abu Dhabi; SmartCode calibrations in Taos, New Mexico, San Antonio, Texas and Hamden, Connecticut; and an urban extension in Buftea, Romania.
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, Florida, Texas, and California.
Licensed in New Hampshire and Maine
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Traffic and Transportation for Traditional Town Planning
Traditional Neighborhood Development Symposium
Zoning Ordinance & Regulation Revisions
Congress for the New Urbanism #4
Street Design for Town Planning
Building Livable Communities
Transportation/Land Use Colloquim
Techniques in Traditional Neighborhood Development
Flexible Street Design
Design of Traditional Neighborhood Streets 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, Europe, and Central America, since approximately 1988. Team participant with Duany Plater-Zyberk, 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: |
Past 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 |
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Author/Principal Author of:
Author/Principal Author:
i>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 |
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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 |
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“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: |
20;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 (Fellow)
Maine Land Surveyors Association
National Society of Professional
Engineers
White Mountain Survey Co., Inc., a multi-disciplinary firm that continues to focus on projects in New Hampshire, in 1977.
TND Engineering, current, a specialty engineering firm addressing Traditional Neighborhood Development/New Urbanism, SmartCode and urban planning/street design matters at all levels and at any location.
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