Brigid Reynolds, started her professional planning career in 1999. Prior to obtaining her Masters in City Planning she worked as a tenants rights advocate in Vancouver’s downtown eastside neighbourhood. There she learned the value of planning with community to achieve long term positive change. Throughout her career she has managed diverse and complex planning issues in busy planning departments. She has been file manager for numerous current planning applications and has managed many long range planning processes at different scales and with different levels of complexity. She enjoys the technical side of planning like preparing innovative zoning bylaws and creative affordable housing policies and regulations. She is well equipped to help local governments prepare their housing needs assessments. She has the knowledge and experience to review, analyze and make recommendations for all types of land use applications so they can move from the ‘to do’ pile to ‘approved’.