Kirby Date, AICP, RLA is a landscape architect and community planner who works with urban, suburban and rural communities to provide decision support on land use, development and conservation issues. Her areas of expertise include development planning and design, retail and housing market evaluations, small town and main street planning, and planning and design for parks, open space, and environmental areas. Recent work includes a retail study for six urban neighborhoods in Cleveland, and a comprehensive housing analysis for the City of Oberlin.

 

Since 2004, Ms. Date has led the Ohio Balanced Growth Program’s Best Local Land Use Practices, in support of watershed-friendly development, conservation and stormwater management decisions in communities across the state. She was the founder of the Countryside Program in 1996, working with the Western Reserve Resource Conservation and Development Council. Prior to coming to Ohio, she was in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

Ms. Date is a registered landscape architect in the State of Ohio, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. She is the author/editor of the Ohio Balanced Growth Program’s Linking Land Use and Ohio’s Waters: Best Local Land Use Practices, 2012; author of the award-winning Conservation Development

Resource Manual, 1999; and co-author of Case Studies in Family Land Conservation, 2005. Ms. Date holds a BS in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University, and a MS in Urban Studies, Community and Neighborhood Development focus, from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.