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Patty Elkis

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission

Patty is Associate Director of Comprehensive Planning at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, where she has worked since 1992.  She oversees long-range planning, environmental planning, smart growth planning, and corridor planning.  Patty has partnered with a number of non-profits on regional projects, including Natural Lands Trust for the Development Threat Assessment of SmartConservation, GreenSpace Alliance and its Regional Green Plan, and 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania with its sewer and water infrastructure studies. She has worked on DVRPC’s long-range plans for the years 2020, 2025, and 2030.  Her greenway work and New Regionalism project have received awards of recognition from the Delaware River Greenway Partnership, the Rancocas Conservancy, and the Pennsylvania Planning Association.  Prior to DVRPC, Patty worked at the Montgomery County Planning Commission as a community planner, and before that, as a recreation planner in Israel. Patty received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and her Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.  She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and is a licensed Professional Planner in New Jersey.
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