Walker, Nott, Dragicevic Associates Limited
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"Teamwork divides tasks and multiplies successes."
The WND Team is comprised of many hard-working and experienced professionals and support staff. Within this framework, Walker, Nott, Dragicevic Associates Limited provides a "hands-on" approach to serving clients, organizing and tailoring each project team to the client's specific requirements and the nature of the project.
Each project team is headed by a senior member of the firm who has a high degree of involvement in all stages of the project and in all decision making to ensure the highest level of service and maximize the effectiveness of our solutions. Our professional team includes highly qualified and accredited planners, planning technicians, urban designers, and a staff librarian who are supported by administrative and research personnel.
As many planning projects require contributions from various disciplines, Walker, Nott, Dragicevic Associates Limited can coordinate and manage multi-disciplinary teams and, as required, recommend qualified professionals that the firm has worked with previously.
A brief description of our senior staff's experience is provided below:
Peter Walker is one of the pre-eminent land use planners in the country, possessing a distinguished career spanning over 35 years. Over his career, Peter has contributed his time and expertise to a number of important affiliations including, as the former Director of the Central Ontario Chapter of Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI), the Chairman of the OPPI Chapter Membership Committee, the former Director of the Ontario Association of Planners, the Director of the Ontario Expropriation Association and a Member of the President's Joint Council on Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Toronto. The list goes on and on. We would be remiss, however, if we did not mention that Peter was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners in 1999.
Peter's professional experience has covered a vast range of assignments, including as a Consultant to regional, municipal, county, provincial and federal governments; the preparation of planning policy for many urban and rural areas; planning, designing and managing many prominent mixed-use, commercial, industrial and institutional projects and residential communities across Canada; redevelopment, revitalization and rehabilitation projects; and providing experienced opinions and consulting services relating to environmental, lease arbitration, and expropriation matters.
In the course of becoming one of Canada's top land use planners, Peter has appeared before numerous agencies, committees, Councils, provincial panels, tribunals and courts, and brings to each project the depth of this extraordinary experience.
Wendy Nott joined Walker, Nott, Dragicevic Associates Limited in 1977, becoming a Principal in 1984. As a Registered Professional Planner with extensive experience and knowledge in many areas of land use planning, Wendy has contributed her time and expertise to many professional committees, including as a Member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute Public Policy Committee, the Ontario Municipal Board Liaison Committee and the Advisory Committee of the Ryerson University School of Urban and Regional Planning.
Wendy is well known to municipalities across Southern Ontario for her ability to construct innovative policy, zoning and guideline documents such as Official Plans, Secondary Plans, municipal housing statements, comprehensive zoning by-laws and urban design guidelines. Her accomplishments extend into the land development realm and are exemplified in her comprehensively planned communities and neighbourhoods across Southern Ontario, consisting of both small and large-scale communities and redevelopment projects combining a mix of residential, commercial, institutional, recreational and industrial uses. Throughout her career, Wendy has applied her substantial land use planning experience and knowledge representing clients in expropriation and Ontario Municipal Board proceedings.
Recognized for her experience in organizing and coordinating national and international planning conferences, Wendy accepted the position of Co-Chair of the joint 2004 conference in Toronto for the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. By all accounts, the joint-conference was a tremendous success. In 2004, Wendy was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners in recognition of her significant contributions to the profession of land use planning.
A Principal since 1984, Bob Dragicevic joined Walker, Nott, Dragicevic Associates Limited in 1979, after achieving degrees in planning from the Universities of Waterloo and York. Bob is a Registered Professional Planner, and belongs to a number of other professional organizations such as the Ontario Expropriation Association and Lambda Alpha.
Bob is considered by many to be a leading planning consultant in a wide variety of land use planning matters. Bob has applied his experience and energetic project management skills to development applications diverse in both type and scale, in numerous municipalities throughout Ontario, ranging from: large-scale mixed use and residential community plans in the Greater Toronto Area to small-scale residential projects; planning for major retail shopping centers and large-format retail stores to a wide range of small-scale commercial providers (including petroleum-related sales); and, redevelopment and infill projects of varying land uses.
Bob's work for the public sector includes providing full municipal planning services, including an Official Plan Review, for the (former) Town of Port Hope for seven years, as well as specialized studies for other municipalities. School Boards from across Ontario seek Bob's advice on matters related to site acquisition for elementary and secondary schools, surplus property disposition, Education Development Charges studies and representing the School Board's interests in municipal policy reviews and development applications. Other institutional clients include the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (new Toronto campus facility) and the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries (facility planning, design and approval). Bob also developed a facility approvals and municipal consultation process for one of the first major, second-generation wireless telecommunications networks in Ontario, introducing photographic simulation as an integral part of the consultation process.
As a result of his extensive involvement in such a wide variety of planning policy and development matters, Bob has provided expert planning evidence before the Ontario Municipal Board and the Provincial Courts on numerous occasions.
Jason Wu joined Walker, Nott, Dragicevic Associates Limited in 1985 with considerable international architectural and urban design experience. Jason has received a Masters in Architecture from University of Toronto, and a Masters Degree of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University. He is also a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Ontario Association of Architects and the Toronto Society of Architects.
Jason has extensive experience with the design of many master planned communities for green field or brown field sites across Ontario, including many urban infill sites. As an architect and urban designer, he is able to provide a high level of expertise to his assignments by delivering innovative, pragmatic and market sensitive solutions to a wide variety of design exercises. The scale and scope of his assignments vary, ranging from single-detached proposals through the Committee of Adjustment to major community planning exercises and urban renewal projects with higher degrees of complexity. Jason has worked closely with the professional planners of WND contributing his expertise in the preparation of many public sector planning documents including secondary plans, zoning by-laws, sign by-laws, node and corridor studies and urban design guidelines.
Jason is also responsible for overseeing the WND Urban Design Group who, under his direction, have conducted architectural control reviews for communities across Ontario, as well as prepared site feasibility studies, urban design and community concept plans, draft plans of subdivision and design and graphic evidence for Ontario Municipal Board and lease arbitration hearings.