Lucia’s professional experience focuses on the intersection of land use, infrastructure, and government funding to make communities better – fostering a sense of identity and connecting them to neighbors and public places. Her broad experience enables her to engage in a range of urban planning topics – she can assess the impact of urban form on place-making, evaluate the attributes of a site plan; translate technical operations into public policy in the political realm; and motivate diverse professionals to rally around creative urban solutions. She has brought these insights to the public, private and non-profit sectors, as well as to boards, committees, and panels. As an executive in the fourth largest County in Florida, she directed a one-billion-dollar enterprise for community infrastructure; mid-range planning, development entitlements and building permitting; and negotiated complex development agreements using a range of public and private funding tools. In the private sector, she consulted on community and economic development nationally, and in the Chicago area, she focused on redevelopment of small downtowns using Tax Increment Financing. In the non-profit sector, she introduced planning principles in re-emerging democracies in Eastern Europe to create transparent planning environments. Lucia has served as Chair of ULI Tampa Bay and is currently it Governance chair; she served on numerous ULI Advisory Panels and currently serves on its Infrastructure Forum. She is an advisor to the University of South Florida’s planning program. Lucia holds a BS in City and Regional Planning from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.