Gary C. Engelhardt, AICP - Principal
Gary C. Engelhardt has over thirty-five years of planning, zoning, and land development experience in Florida. This experience includes fifteen years of local government planning work in Hillsborough County, Florida and two years of experience as director of planning for one of the largest engineering, architectural, planning and environmental consulting firms in the southeastern United States. An additional fifteen years of experience as a principal with Engelhardt, Hammer & Associates, Inc., a land planning consulting firm, allows Mr. Engelhardt to offer high quality planning services on a wide range of land development matters. He has broad, in-depth knowledge of local and state government regulations and policies related to land development, growth management, zoning, population and housing estimates, concurrency and comprehensive planning. Mr. Engelhardt has testified as an expert witness on land planning issues at the Circuit Court and Federal Court levels in Florida.
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| Ethel D. Hammer - Principal
Ethel D. Hammer has over thirty years experience in the field of land use planning and public administration. For the past seventeen years she has been President of the largest land use planning firm in the Tampa Bay Region. Her prior experience as the Director of Planning for a pre-eminent land use law firm provides a practical as well as legal perspective to land use planning at Engelhardt, Hammer & Associates, Inc. Ms. Hammer was the Principal Planner in charge of short-range planning for Hillsborough County and was the Chief Environmental Planner for Hillsborough County while employed at the Hillsborough County Planning Commission. She has been qualified as an expert in numerous Courts and quasi-judicial proceedings throughout Florida, providing expert witness testimony on land planning and development matters. Ms. Hammer has superior presentation skills and has made numerous public presentations before local, regional and state government officials.
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Professional Experience
- Principal, Engelhardt, Hammer & Associates, Inc.
- Director of Planning, Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc.
- Director, Hillsborough County Growth Management Department
- Zoning Administrator, Hillsborough County Department of Development Coordination
- Program Administrator, Hillsborough County Division of Public Utilities and Safety
- Senior Planner, Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission
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| Professional Experience
- President, Engelhardt, Hammer & Associates, Inc.
- Director of Planning, Taub & Williams, P.A.
- Chief Planner, Hillsborough County Department of Development Coordination
- Environmental Planner, Hillsborough County Planning Commission
- DRI Coordinator, Hillsborough County Planning Commission
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- Thomas F. Ashburn, AICP - Principal Planner/Vice President
- Ty Maxey - Principal Planner
- Danny Brown - Senior CAD Specialist/GIS Analyst
- Melissa Dickens - Planner II
- Katie Maurer - Planner II
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