Konnie’s more than 25years of public and private sector
planning and legal experience have made her an expert in
entitlements, environmental and policy planning, a keen analyst
and an effective writer of environmental documents. She has
managed and prepared environmental documents for a diverse
range of projects and clients: small-scale residential and large
planned communities, commercial office, industrial, mixed-use,
and schools. In law school, 

Konnie specialized in alternative
dispute resolution. She clerked for two private law firms and the
Thousand Oaks City Attorney’s Office. She was also a full-time
extern for the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson, 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals. Konnie has been a planner with the City of Lake
Forest and a planning consultant for the cities of Irvine, Anaheim,
and Rancho Santa Margarita. Her duties included project
management, evaluating development proposals, presenting
staff reports and resolutions before the Zoning Administrator
and Planning Commission, evaluating grading and building
plans, and environmental review and documentation. 

Konnie’s
diverse planning and legal experience provides her with a unique
understanding of planning and zoning law, and the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). She is a frequent lecturer on
CEQA for the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP)
Advanced CEQA Workshop and CEQA Basics Workshop, which
provides training to many of the area developers, agency planners
and attorneys.