• Steve Gaddis (Team Chairman)

Steve Gaddis is a graduate of Duke University (B.A. in English, 1968) and N.C. State University (Masters in Architecture, 1984). He is a registered Architect in North Carolina and works for the Gurlitz Architectural Group in Durham, North Carolina as a senior architect. His interest in the design of communities led him to join with a group of architects, landscape architects, and planners (along with an exciting variety of other professionals) to form a group which wields its crayons to create visions of how his local community can heal, redevelop, and grow. He has led a number of charrettes in Durham as part of this pro bono group, and he specializes in teaching citizens to create empowered and effective groups to address their community’s dreams and aspirations. Among his most influential experiences was living in Europe as a young child, a son in a military family.

His recent community activities have include three terms as a member of the Durham Historic Preservation Commission (two as Chairman of the Commission), a city government commission overseeing local historic districts, participation in the two year effort to revise the Masterplan for the City and County of Durham, and a long-time participation in the local Historic Preservation Society as one of its gadflies and polemicists.

• Judy Kincaid

Judy Kincaid is the founder and principal of Sage Collaboration, a Durham, North Carolina consulting firm specializing in strategic planning and facilitation related to sustainable development. She has served on the organizing team for several charrettes on urban design sponsored by Durham Area Designers. She has ten years of experience in managing programs promoting green building, and the Carolina Recycling Association named her Green Builder of the Year in 1998. She is also internationally known for her work on industrial ecosystem development, which promotes resource-sharing partnerships between neighboring industries.

• Martha Arango

Martha Arango, a native of Colombia, holds a B.S. in Architecture from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia. While studying architecture she spent a semester at Paolo Soleri’s Urban Laboratory, Arcosanti. There she volunteered and studied alternative urban solutions. Her academic interests include architectural and interior design, urban planning and theory of architecture.

In addition to her architecture degree, Martha is an avid student of 3D computer modeling, web design and graphic design.

Martha has two years with the Durham firm Roughton Nickelson De Luca Architects and has been an active member of Durham Area Designers, participating in two community charrettes.

Martha is bilingual in English and Spanish.

• Katherine Gill

Katherine Gill is a third year graduate student in Landscape Architecture at North Carolina State University. As well as being a full-time graduate student, she also works part-time for the Natural Learning Initiative, an extension office at NCSU. Last fall she had the opportunity to study architecture and urban design in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Katherine Gill graduated from Bowdoin College with a BA in German in 1995. In between undergraduate and graduate school she worked on a goat farm, drilled holes for a sculptor artist, taught computer graphics to kids in Boston, MA, and worked as a graphic and web designer, and a gardener in Boston and Durham, NC. She interned this past summer with a small office in Chapel Hill, NC, and is currently collaborating with a small team of people to design a model sustainable house for a competition in Roanoke, VA

• Jessica Beil Hindman

Jessica Beil Hindman currently works with David Furman Architecture, an urban mixed-use / residential architecture firm in Charlotte, NC. Concentrating in Urban & Community Design and Housing, her work and studies have been highlighted by urban studio work in Prague and design, editorial and advisory work on several publications. With a healthy respect and awe for the interconnectedness of our world, Jessica approaches design as a complicated process that best contributes to society as a vision intimately related to its user and to its social, political and environmental context. Prior to joining Furman, Jessica worked with Bizios Architect, a residential architecture firm in Durham, NC, and with Clark Construction, a construction management company based in Bethesda, MD.

Jessica holds a MS in Architecture from North Carolina State University and a BS in Engineering from Duke University. In addition to her interests in design, Jessica pursues drawing and music, with extensive piano and vocal training.

• Hannah Twaddell

Hannah Twaddell, MAT is a Senior Planner and Public Involvement Specialist for Renaissance Planning Group. She has more than 17 years of experience organizing and managing teams of in-house and outside staff and consultants to create plans and conduct studies for local and regional governments. Prior to joining RPG, she served for several years as Assistant Director of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission and for more than a decade as chief staff to the Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization in Charlottesville, Virginia. She coordinated two updates of the MPO’s Long Range Transportation Plan as well as studies on bicycle and pedestrian transportation, mass transit, ITS, and context-sensitive roadway design. In 1999, she won a major FHWA grant to develop an innovative, 50-year regional vision that provided an important foundation for the recently completed 2025 MPO plan.

Since joining RPG, Ms. Twaddell has designed and facilitated public workshops throughout the East Coast; developed local smart growth planning and regulatory policies to support a regional transportation and land use initiative in eastern Florida; conducted a national survey on practical applications of smart growth; and directed public involvement and developed policy recommendations for a bicycle/pedestrian plan in Tallahassee. She is currently directing public involvement and developing policy for an MPO long range transportation plan in Brevard County, Florida, a land use and transportation plan for a rural corridor in New Jersey; and a regional bicycle plan in central Virginia.

Her professional affiliations include the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations; the Virginia Association of Planning District Commissions (Founder, Transportation and GIS Committees); the American Planning Association; and the Women’s Transportation Seminar. She writes the “Forward Motion” transportation-planning column for the nationally distributed Planning Commissioner’s Journal, and serves as Newsletter Editor and on the annual conference planning committee for the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association. She also serves on the proposal review panel for the Transportation Research Board Land Use & Transportation Committee. Ms. Twaddell organized Virginia’s first statewide conference on land use and transportation in 2000, and has given presentations to dozens of regional, state, and national associations as well as graduate classes at several universities.

Ms. Twaddell holds a BA in English and Music from Oberlin College and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Pittsburgh.  She has completed advanced coursework in a variety of planning-related subjects including MINUTP traffic modeling, Major Investment Studies, Land Use and Transportation Planning, and Public Involvement and Facilitation.

• Bill Burgin

Bill Burgin, AIA, graduated with honors from North Carolina State University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design in Architecture, and began his career in Architecture in Salisbury as an intern architect with John Erwin Ramsay, FAIA. In 1987, Bill and his partner purchased this business and today continue its practice of providing quality regional Architecture as the firm of Ramsay Burgin Smith Architects, Inc. The firm is 15-personnnel strong with an office in Salisbury, NC.

Community Involvement

PRESENT

• City Councilman (third term) - City of Salisbury

• Co-Chair – City of Salisbury Convention Center Committee

• Co-Chair – City of Salisbury Land Development Ordinance Committee

• Member – City of Salisbury Parks & Recreation Advisory Board

• Member - Downtown Salisbury Inc. Board

• Member – Rowan County Convention & Visitors Bureau Board

• Chair - Piedmont Behavioral Healthcare Board.

• Member – Rowan County United Way Board.

• Member - Rowan Rotary Club. (Paul Harris Fellow)

• Member - Milford Hills United Methodist Church.

RECENT PAST

• Member – UDAT City of Thomasville, NC.

• Chair – Innes Street Corridor Overlay Committee

• Member - Rowan – Salisbury School Board (1994-96).

• Member - Salisbury’s Planning Board (1989-95) serving as Chair from 1992-95.

• Member - Rowan County’s Strategic Planning Commission (1997) serving as Co-Chair on K-12 Education.

• Member - Rowan – Salisbury Schools Strategic Planning Committee on Support Facilities (1990 – 1994) serving as Chair in 1994.

• Member - Salisbury District United Methodist Church Habitat for Humanity Committee (1996) serving as Chair.

Related Project Experience

• Renovation of existing three-story historic building in Downtown Salisbury for new F & M Bank Financial Center. ($5,751,680)

• Adaptive reuse of 1910 Rowan County Post Office for new Rowan County Administrative Offices (Downtown Salisbury). ($3,000,000)

• Adaptive reuse of downtown retail store for City of Salisbury's Zoning Administrative and Engineering Offices. ($190,000)

• Renovations of downtown Bank building into City of Salisbury's new CITY HALL. ($550,000)

• Renovation and restoration of the 112,000 sq. ft. Back Shop for exhibits at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. ($20,000,000)

• Restoration of Historic Spencer Shops Roundhouse into a major component of North Carolina's Transportation History Museum Rail transportation exhibit building. ($2,930,000)

• Phase three restoration of Salisbury's train station. ($420,675)

• Restoration and addition to Barber Junction Depot at NC Transportation History Museum. ($289,000)

• Zoning study for City of Moorseville for Highway 150 overlay district and sign ordinance.

• Lyn McClay

As the founder of DesignSpec Inc, Lyn McClay, AIA, has a wide range of expertise as both an interior designer and a registered architect. She has practiced interior design since 1967 and architecture since 1987. She received her BS in Interior Design from Penn State University and her Masters in Architecture from North Carolina State University. She has been a visiting instructor at UNC-Greensboro and an instructor for the Duke University Continuing Education Program. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and served as president of the Durham-Chapel Hill section in 1997-1998. She served as a board member of the Triangle chapter of the AIA 1998-2000 and is a founding member of Durham Area Designers.

• Hazel Ruth Edwards

Hazel Ruth Edwards, Ph.D., AICP is an urban designer and certified planner with over 18 years of experience in many aspects of design. Her design background has served as a foundation for her talent for translating and representing ideas and concepts. This orientation is the basis for all of her work—from proposal writing (that resulted in a total of $1.6 million funding for four rural economic development projects in North Carolina); to research (where she performed a comprehensive quality of life analysis that focused on twenty urban areas in the State of Indiana); to campus planning activities (in which she led a number of comprehensive university planning and development activities); to building related projects (such as establishing programming, urban design, and site selection criteria as well as space planning and residential design); to master planning activities (for a community college in South Africa and residential developments); and to working with community groups (through charrettes, focus groups, and other intensive work sessions). Dr. Edwards is an author and also teaches at Morgan State University. She earned a BS in Architecture from Howard University with Design Honors,  and a MS of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the Doctor of Philosophy in Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and conducted post-doctoral research in city planning at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of Lambda Alpha International (an honorary land economics society).

• Mark Humienny

Mark Humienny is a senior project manager for architectural projects with Arcados G&M of North Carolina, a full-service environmental design company. Mr. Humienny is a registered architect with broad experience in master planning, programming, and building design. His project experience includes university, municipal, and athletic facilities, senior living communities, commercial office space, parking structures, and distribution facilities. Mr. Humienny has served as an adjunct faculty member at the North Carolina State University College of Design teaching analysis of environment and context as a design determinant. His approach to planning and design stresses the integration of building and site with their context with a particular emphasis on creating pedestrian-friendly environments. He has practiced architecture in New York, Washington, DC, and North Carolina.

Education

• Master of Architecture and Urban Design, North Carolina State University, 1992

• Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Virginia, 1983

Professional Registrations

• Architect in North Carolina,

• National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Certification

Professional Associations

• American Institute of Architects

Awards

• North Carolina American Institute of Architects Design Achievement Award,

• RTKL Traveling Fellowship

• O’Brien Atkins Fellowship