Kirk R. Bishop
	Executive Vice-President
			Kirk Bishop has been with Duncan Associates since 1987 and has led most of the firm’s zoning and development code work in major cities. Most recently he served as project manager for the Chicago zoning ordinance update, where he led a team of a dozen firms in completing the first comprehensive revision of the Chicago ordinance in nearly 50 years. He was the project manager for the Pittsburgh and Toledo code updates and served as the firm’s lead planner on the Detroit zoning ordinance update. Kirk presently serves as a code consultant to the Cities of Portland and Seattle and was recently invited by Harvard University and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to serve on a 3-member panel that presented zoning papers to planning directors of the nation’s 25 largest cities. Since the mid-1990s he has been executive vice-president and director of the firm’s Chicago office. During his consultant career he has served as principal planner and project manager on dozens of assignments, including the following: Client_____________ Assignment___________ Kirk's Role____ Aspen, CO Growth Management Principal Planner Charleston County, SC UDO Project Manager Chicago, IL Zoning Ordinance Project Manager Detroit, MI Zoning Ordinance Project Manager Henderson, NV UDO Principal Planner Lake County, IL UDO Project Manager Miami-Dade County, FL School Impact Fee Project Manager Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture Model Zoning Ordinance Project Manager Montgomery County, MD Adequate Public Facilities Project Manager Pittsburgh, PA Zoning Ordinance Project Manager Puget Sound COG Growth Management Survey Project Manager      UDO=Unified Development Ordinance Before joining Duncan Associates, Kirk was a senior research associate with the American Planning Association, where he served as principal researcher for numerous studies and training workshops. His examination of regulatory strategies that enhance the visual quality and functional operation of road corridors was published as a Planning Advisory Service Report- Designing Urban Corridors. Early in his career, Kirk worked as a senior planner with the City of Austin, where he was responsible for zoning and subdivision case review, land-use studies and staff support for a Council-appointed citizens’ panel charged with reviewing amendments to the City's land development code. While with the city, he was also responsible for reviewing development proposals in the downtown area and administering Austin’s capitol view protection ordinance. Kirk is a frequent speaker at conferences and training workshops and has been a guest lecturer in the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Urban Planning and Public Affairs program. He obtained two degrees from the University of Iowa and remains a die-hard Hawkeye fan.   Education:      M.A. Urban and Regional Planning                     UNIVERSITY OF IOWA                     B.A. Political Science                     UNIVERSITY OF IOWA