Lisa Levy Buch, Vice President/Regional Manager, Ontario
As Vice President at Consensus Planning Group, Ms. Levy Buch brings over 15 years of professional experience in local politics, community relations, and policy planning for transportation, land use and environmental issues. Her expertise in urban planning, combined with a keen insight into local politics and community relations, brings tremendous value to complex and controversial public and private sector projects.

Ms. Levy Buch recently opened an office for CPG in Ontario, and is directing community outreach strategies for a proposed senior living complex in Corona and the CEQA outreach effort for the State of California’s proposal to expand Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino. Past outreach efforts Ms. Levy Buch has overseen include single- and multi-family residential, mixed-use, and retail development projects in Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties; transportation projects and corridor studies in Los Angeles, Orange, and Santa Barbara Counties; and CEQA and NEPA outreach efforts for the Federal and State of California Departments of General Services, the Los Angeles Community College District, Caltrans, and the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering.

Prior to joining CPG, Ms. Levy Buch served as Chief Field Deputy for Council District 11 and Planning Deputy for Council Districts 5 in the City of Los Angeles - directing community relations activities, shaping land use and transportation policy, and managing special projects.

Prior to her work with the City Council, Ms. Levy Buch worked in the private sector on policy planning for transportation and environmental issues. As principal of her own consulting firm, Ms. Levy Buch assisted SCAG in developing a Master EIR/EIS for the 1997 Regional Transportation Plan. She also served at Planning Consultants Research (PCR) and Cordoba Corporation, two consulting firms where Ms. Levy Buch began her career, providing technical expertise for numerous environmental, transportation and land use projects.

Ms. Levy Buch received her M.A. in Urban Planning (specializing in Transportation Planning and Social Policy) from the University of California at Los Angeles, and her B.A. in Social Ecology (with an emphasis in Environmental Planning) from the University of California at Irvine.

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