Fairfax County GovernmentSenior Heritage Resources Planner
Jul. 2023 - Jan. 2025Fairfax County, Virginia, United StatesThe Planning Division, in the Department of Planning and Development, maintains and updates the County’s Comprehensive Plan and plan map, evaluates land use and development proposals for conformity with the Comprehensive Plan, prepares various planning and policy studies and offers recommendations for future direction. The Heritage Resources & Plan Development Branch conducts historic preservation planning studies and provides support to the county’s Architectural Review Board and History Commission, provides interpretations of the County’s Comprehensive Plan relating to heritage resources, and conducts heritage resources related Comprehensive Plan updates, amendments, and planning studies. Reviewed design or redevelopment proposals and zoning applications for potential impacts on heritage resources and provided recommendations for the treatment of heritage resources such as preservation, documentation, or mitigation strategies; led or supported planning and policy studies, land-use studies, heritage resource surveys, comprehensive plan amendments, and zoning ordinance interpretations; prepared written materials including heritage resource assessments, research reports, staff reports, planning studies, evaluations, and public hearing items; created project scopes, including schedule, cost estimates, interpretive strategies, or materials and expected deliverables, for completion by County staff or identified sub-contractors; secured grant funding for projects including county-wide surveys of heritage resources, research and writing of contexts for selected historic periods, studies of historic district boundaries, and treatment plans for historic resources; served as staff liaison to the County’s appointed commission for celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, including scheduling meetings, supporting research requests, coordinating with County agencies, and assisting with the annual budget request.