Jim Paulmann, senior principal in Stantec’s Sarasota office, has been promoted to Geographic Discipline Leader for Stantec’s Planning Practice for the United States. Paulmann brings more than four decades of professional planning experience to this role, and will coordinate the services of Stantec’s more than 200+ planners throughout the country. Mr. Paulmann is a known expert in the coordination of master planning and entitlement procurement for large-scale new communities, several of which have won regional and national awards. His areas of specialty include visioning, comprehensive planning, areawide, corridor, neighborhood, airport, and military planning programs, and land development regulations and community outreach.
Paulmann is a charter member of the American Planning Association, a Fellow in the American Institute of Certified Planners, a member of the Urban Land Institute and Association of Defense Communities. Paulmann will continue his to focus on Florida clients and professional organizations. He has previously served on the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council, the Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida, the Manatee County Planning Commission, and as Land Use Hearing Officer and Elected official in Howards Grove, Wisconsin.
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