Principal at OHM Advisors
Aaron’s vision is integral to the firm’s planning projects across both urban and suburban communities. He has led comprehensive and strategic plans, vision plans, corridor and transportation projects, and streetscape designs with a keen focus on building deeper community ties and promoting new economic and private investment opportunities for the firm’s clients.
Prior to his work with OHM Advisors, Aaron served as a public sector planning administrator, which contributes both to his savvy ability to create plans and codes that are easily understood and implemented, and his commitment to public input. He excels at including citizens at the heart of the planning process in every project—leading and facilitating public participation to build stewardship, consensus, and support, and to yield plans rooted in a healthy balance of market realities with community values and aspirations.
A planner with more than 20 years of experience, Aaron serves as an Adjunct Professor at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture. He has presented widely at conferences on creating important public-private development partnerships, developing unique community engagement practices that reach community members in their own spaces, and on historic and urban revitalization with a focus on placemaking.
When the time came to do work on the downtown square in Newark, the city decided to do something few do, do everything necessary at the same time and improve the functionality of the square. Since then, the city has restored two-way traffic, installed roundabouts, underwent sewer separation, and installed bio-swales. Come see first-hand the work completed with the firms that helped redesign the square and learn how all of this work was financed and managed at the city-level. Approved for 2.25 AIA HSW Credits. TICKET REQUIRED. This tour is sponsored by OHM Advisors and the Huseman Group.