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Martin Jaffe
Environmental Planning Specialist

Great Cities Institute (MC-107)
University of Illinois at Chicago
412 South Peoria St., Ste. 400
Chicago, Il 60607-7067
Phone:  312-996-2178
Fax:  312-996-8933
mjaffe@uic.edu
Curriculum vita		  

Martin Jaffe, the Environmental Planning specialist for the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program, teaches land use law and physical and environmental planning in the Urban Planning & Policy Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Marty is also a faculty fellow at UIC's Great Cities Institute, where he directs the Institute's Metropolitan Sustainability initiative. Marty is currently serving on several advisory boards in the bistate Chicago metro area, including: the City of Chicago Department of Environment's Calumet Government Working Group, the Air Quality Subcommittee and Watershed Advisory Group of the Northwest Indiana Regional Planning Agency, the Water Resources Advisory Group of the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, the Metropolitan Planning Council's and Openlands Project's Groundwater Advisory Group, the Illinois EPA's Basinwide Management Advisory Group, and the USEPA's Lake Michigan Forum. He is also active on the Chicago Wilderness' Sustainability Team, participates in the Southern Lake Michigan Regional Water Supply Consortium, and wrote the American Planning Association's 2002 water resources management policy guide.

Curriculum vita

EDUCATION:

LL.M. (Taxation) (1984), DePaul University, College of Law, Chicago, IL
J.D. (1973), Wayne State University, School of Law, Detroit, MI
B.A. (1969), Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

POSITIONS

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. Chicago, Illinois. 1985-present.
    • Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, AY 1985-86 to present.
    • Faculty Fellow, Great Cities Institute. AY 2001-02 to present.
    • Environmental Planning Specialist, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program, AY 2001-02 to present.
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Program in Environmental and Energy Law.  1992-94.  Chicago, Illinois.
    • Adjunct Professor of Law, AY 1993-94
    • Visiting Associate Professor of Law, AY 1992-1993
  • American Planning Association, Research Division.  Chicago, Illinois.  1976-1985
    • Research Program Manager, 1983-85
    • Staff Attorney and Editor, Land Use & Zoning Digest, 1981-82
    • Senior Research Associate, 1977-1982
    • Research Associate (ASPO), 1976-1977
  • Martha's Vineyard Commission.  Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.  Regulatory Planner, 1974-76.
  • Schoharie County Planning and Economic Development Agency.  Schoharie, New York. Planner, 1973-1974  

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Faculty Scholar, UIC Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, 2003-04.
  • Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago.  1998-99.
  • Senior Policy Fellow, Office of the Governor of the State of Illinois.  1989-90.
  • Research Citation, 26th Progressive Architecture Awards Program.  1979.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

  • Journal of Architectural and Planning Research.  Chicago; Locke Science Publishing Co., Inc.  1990-present.
  • Land Use Law & Zoning Digest.  Chicago; American Planning Association.  Reporter, 1985-present.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Articles
  • Jaffe, M. 2004. "Can Capital Improvements Programs Protect Environmental Quality?" Planning & Environmental Law. 56(6):3-9. June.
  • Jaffe, M. and O. Al-Jayyousi. 2002. "Planning Models for Sustainable Water Resources Development," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 45(3)309-322. May.
  • Jaffe, M. 2001. "Zoning, Chicago-Style: A Commentary on Hannah v. City of Chicago," Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, 53,7 (July) 6-8.

Conference Proceedings

  • Jaffe, M., D. Perry and J. Fitzgerald. 2004. "The Politics of Promise: The Rhetoric and Practice of "Non-Governmental Regionalism in Economic Development in the United States," Proceedings of the City Futures Conference, held July 8-10, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois by the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
  • Jaffe, M. and D. Mir (eds.). 2002. Great Cities Institute/Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program Urban Water Resources Conference Proceedings: Improved Decision-Making for Water Resources - The Key to Sustainable Development for Metropolitan Regions.  Held, September 16-17, 1999 in Chicago Illinois.  West Lafayette; Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program, Purdue University. Publication IISG-02-02. 148pp.
  • Jaffe, M. 2002. "Sustainable Development Policies for Chongming, Changxing, and Hengsha Islands," Proceedings of Coastal Zone Canada 2002 International Conference -- Managing Shared Waters: Towards Sustainable Transboundary Coastal Ecosystems. Held June 23-27, 2002 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Toronto; Coastal Zone Canada Association and United Nations University.
  • Jaffe, M. 2001. "Considering Market-Based Water Supply Strategies for the Chicago Metro Region," Coastal Zone '01: Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Coastal Zone Conference, Cleveland, Ohio. July 15-19, 2001. Charleston, SC; NOAA, Coastal Services Center. NOAA/CSC/20120-CD

PUBLIC SERVICE

  • Executive Board, Illinois Water Resources Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2004-06 term.
  • Steering Committee, Southern Lake Michigan Regional Water Supply Consortium. 2003-present.
  • Watershed Technical Team, Regional Watershed Management Project, Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission. Portage, IN. 2002-present.
  • Basinwide Management advisory Group, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. 2003-04.
  • Member, Lake Calumet Government Working Group. City of Chicago Department of Environment. Chicago, IL. 2003-present.
  • Village of Wilmette, IL., Historic Preservation Commission. 2002-present.