Principal Associate, 2002 to Present
Siegman & Associates
Principal, 1998 to 2002
Patrick Siegman has managed projects in the following areas since 1998:
- Transportation Plans for Districts, Neighborhoods
and Major Development Projects. Mr. Siegman has led
the transportation planning effort for more than twenty neighborhood
plans, Specific Plans and development projects, specializing
in downtowns, transit-oriented developments, mixed-use and New
Urbanist neighborhoods. These projects include:
- The Central Petaluma Smart Code, which created a form-based code for this revitalizing downtown’s new Theatre District.
- The Downtown Newhall Specific Plan, Santa Clarita, establishes a new transit-oriented development district around a Metrolink Station, and converts a four-lane former state highway into a calmed, two-lane Main Street.
- The North Montclair Specific Plan, which is spurring new transit-oriented development around the planned joint Gold Line light rail & Metrolink station.
- Traditional neighborhood development plans
such as the Westside and Meriam
Park neighborhoods (Chico, CA), the Olsen
Ranch-Beechwood Specific Plan (Paso Robles), and
the Greensboro Ballpark & Aycock Neighborhood
(Greensboro, NC).
- Parking and Transportation Demand Management Plans. For cities such as Pasadena, Ventura and Petaluma, CA, as well as a variety of major employers and commercial districts, Siegman has helped to identify the most cost effective mix of investments in new parking, improved parking management and transportation alternatives to meet local economic and quality-of-life goals. The Pasadena Traffic Reduction Strategies Study, for example, proposes a dozen coordinated strategies, from parking policy reform to congestion pricing, to answer the City’s question: “What would it take to reduce rush-hour traffic by 25%?" The Ventura Downtown Mobility & Parking Plan includes a far-reaching menu of parking policies and traffic reduction steps, including replacing free parking throughout downtown with variable-rate parking pricing.
- Campus Transportation Plans & Studies for campuses such as Occidental College, Pomona College, Cal State San Marcos and Fuller Seminary (Pasadena, CA). Typically, these plans developed a set of parking and demand management strategies to accommodate substantial growth, while improving the campus environment and alleviating community concerns about traffic.
- Traffic Calming and Streetscape Projects, including Palo Alto’s Residential Arterial Traffic Calming Project; the Lincoln, NE, Downtown Bicycle Plan, Safe Routes to School projects in Los Altos; and the calming of Chico, CA’s West Avenues and Vallombrosa Avenue neighborhoods. He has also taught numerous workshops on these topics, such as leading ‘Walkable & Bicycle-Friendly Communities’ workshop series in the Charlotte, NC, and San Francisco Bay Area regions.
- Community outreach and consensus building
throughout the United States. Using a variety of intensive outreach
and consensus-building approaches, ranging from weeklong design
charrettes to stakeholder interviews, focus groups and hands-on
workshops, Mr. Siegman has helped communities reach consensus
on often controversial topics. He specializes in helping community
members understand the real trade-offs involved in transportation
and urban design decisions, allowing them to decide for themselves
how local values should be reflected in plans.
