Joy A. Blinn

Joy Blinn (Membership Officer)

Joy A. Blinn Joins PBS&J Transportation Staff

Jacksonville, Florida , Joy A. Blinn has joined PBS&J's Jacksonville office as a planner in the Transportation Planning/PD&E Division.In this capacity, she will be responsible for transportation-related studies including transportation systems planning, corridor studies, and long-range planning; public involvement; grant writing; and permitting.She brings to PBS&J significant experience in development of regional impact (DRI) and planned unit development permitting, comprehensive planning, and concurrency and site plan applications.

Blinn has recently been a team member on several major projects in the greater Jacksonville area.For the Preservation Project in Duval County, she co-wrote several grants that were funded through the Florida Community Trust.She also wrote management plans and project plans and helped collect over $8 million in grant funding for the Preservation Project, Better Jacksonville Plan.She has also been associated with planning for the new town of Nocatee, RiverTown mixed-use development, Aberdeen and DurbinCreek DRIs, South Hampton golf community, Gran Park of Jacksonville, Bartram Park Village shopping center development, OakLeaf/Argyle Forest DRI, and the Music Theatre at I-95.

Blinn obtained her masters degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Florida (UF) and a B.S. degree from the UF College of Agriculture.She also has a paralegal degree from the University of North Florida.She is a board member of the First Coast Chapter of the Florida Planning and Zoning Association and a member of the American Planning Association.

Based in PBS&J's Jacksonville, Florida office, Blinn can be reached by phone at 904.367.8683 or by email at jablinn@pbsj.com.
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Joy A. Blinn

Joy Blinn is a planning project manager at Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan Inc., the civil engineering firm working with Worldwide Entertainment on the amphitheatre.

"I just think it's an amazing opportunity for this area," Blinn said."We're going to be able to get large music acts into this area without traveling hundreds of miles."

Blinn said the developers and engineers worked with the St. Johns County Sheriff's Department to develop a traffic control plan for amphitheatre events, a tiered system that will be implemented according to event size.

Joy A. Blinn Joins PBS&J Transportation Staff