ULI Toronto was pleased to learn yesterday that Jennifer Keesmaat, a corporate member of ULI, is set to become the new Chief Planner for the City of Toronto.   The position has been vacant since earlier this year when Gary Wright retired.

Ms. Keesmaat is a partner at Dialog, and a founder of the Office for Urbanism, a planning and design firm that describes its work as specializing in “the integration of planning, design and consensus building processes.”

An award-winning planner, she is a frequent public commentator on urban issues and is a columnist for the CBC Radio’s Toronto drive-home show. She has done work on master planning initiatives in Toronto, Vancouver, Mississauga, Vaughan, Regina, Saskatoon, Lethbridge, Moncton, London and Halifax.

Ms. Keesmaat will begin her new position in early September.   ULI Toronto congratulates her on this exciting opportunity.

Click here to read the Globe & Mail article.