BRUCE J. RICHARDS, AICP, PTP, GIP
Vice President / Director of Planning

Bruce Richards joined the firm in 1999, and has over 30 years of wide-ranging planning experience in three different states, including 19 with N-Y. His experience includes land use and master planning, urban and regional planning, neighborhood planning, transportation planning, and the preparation of environmental (NEPA) documents. Mr. Richard’s is responsible for managing all of the firm’s planning and environmental projects.

While with N-Y Associates, Mr. Richards managed the planning of the Desire Master Plan for the Housing Authority of New Orleans, which transformed a former public housing project into a new neighborhood designed under the tenets of Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND) and New Urbanism. Over the last ten years he has also led two award-winning land use projects: the Bucktown Neighborhood Plan in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and the West End Redevelopment Plan which straddles the boundary between the City of New Orleans and unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. He has also managed the preparation of over a dozen transportation-related environmental documents for the LADOTD and the Regional Planning Commission for Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany Parishes, serving the New Orleans Metropolitan Region. Mr Richards also has extensive experience in public involvement and outreach since this is a component of nearly all the projects he has led. He is also proficient in working with multi-disciplined teams consisting of engineers, architects, planners and economists.

Education:

• Master of City Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989
• B.A., Political Science, Louisiana State University, 1986

Registration / Certifications

• American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)
• American Planning Association
• Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
• Green Infrastructure Practitioner

Representative Experience with N-Y

• Land Use Planning and Zoning
• Transportation Planning
• Masterplans and Corridor Studies
• Feasibility Studies
• Environmental Impact Statements (NEPA)
• Environmental Assessments (NEPA)
• Categorical Exclusions (NEPA)