Brian C. Crawford

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  www.adapx.com/Press-Releases/16-Sep-Marin-County-Gets-G - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/16/2009    Last Visited: 9/29/2009  

  capabilities, furthering our sustainability goals by reducing paper, and creating workflow efficiencies," said Brian C. Crawford, A.I.C.P. Director of Marin Community Development Agency.

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  Published on: 10/13/2008    Last Visited: 10/13/2008  

  if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.width = requestedWidth + "px"; document.getElementById('articleViewerGroup').style.margin = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } Brian Crawford, a Marin native who began his career as a planning intern at the Marin County Civic Center, has been promoted to head the county's Community Development Agency.
  
  The 48-year-old official oversees a budget of $16 million and 89 employees in charge of planning, building and code enforcement, environmental health and other programs.
  
  Crawford, formerly assistant director of the department, takes over the $163,400-a-year top post from Alex Hinds, the county's chief planner for about 10 years.
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  Supervisor Steve Kinsey, noting Crawford has deep Marin roots, said, "It's exciting to have someone who has grown up in the county organization as well as the county itself.
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  Kinsey added that Crawford provides a "wonderful blend of the more visionary direction we've emphasized in the past decade, and the more regulatory decade that preceded it."
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  Crawford said he will continue to boost sustainability as "the predominant theme of the agency," an effort that will involve "integrating sustainable work projects into the work program."
  
  That means updating the county's "green building" ordinance, studying "gray water" recycling and other initiatives, including cutting red tape and speeding well-designed projects that incorporate energy efficiency and other sustainability principles, he said.
  
  "We can work smarter with permit review," without compromising environmental quality, he said."I also want to focus on customer service and delivering on our core business areas."Ê
  
  He noted, though, that county government faces a tight budget in an uncertain economy, meaning "we'll have to be conservative in our spending."
  
  Crawford, born at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, was raised in Mill Valley and graduated from Tamalpais High School where his father, Charles, was a counselor.He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983 with a degree in conservation resource studies, a field that included natural resources law, public policy and administration.
  
  After joining the county staff as a planning intern in 1988, he was hired full time and began moving up the ladder before leaving in 1991 to work as an environmental planner in Chico, where he and his wife, Caroline, had friends and relatives.Two years later, he decided county planning provided a more fulfilling career, and he returned to the Marin department to work under planning chief Mark Riesenfeld, who later became county administrator.
  
  Crawford was promoted by Hinds to the department's key planning job and became assistant department head under Hinds in 2006.

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  Published on: 5/20/2008    Last Visited: 5/21/2008  

  Brian Crawford, the Community Development Agency's assistant director, said that if the supervisors desire, county staff could add a scoring or grading system by 2009.
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  Crawford said implementing a rating system on the Web site would provide a strong incentive to restaurants to meet the health code.

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  Published on: 10/17/2001    Last Visited: 4/5/2007  

  The Board received a copy of the letter written by staff to Brian Crawford, Deputy Director of the Marin County Community Development Agency stating the issues identified by directors at the September meeting as being of local concern.Director Bertsch reported that the members of the Housing Committee have been contacted but no meeting has taken place yet.She has completed and returned the housing survey.

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  www.marinij.com/opinion/ci_8908542 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/13/2008    Last Visited: 4/14/2008  

  County staff promises to get moving, but Brian Crawford, assistant community development director, wants direction from supervisors on how to manage and update the Web site.He says the county is in the process of contracting with a software consultant to make sure the information is compatible with the county's new computer systems.

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  Published on: 8/1/2001    Last Visited: 2/13/2005  

  Brian Crawford, Marin Community Development Agency - Letter in support of fire hazard reduction work undertaken at Bolinas Cemetery.

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  April 17, 2002 Board of Directors Meeting Minutes - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/17/2002    Last Visited: 1/19/2009  

  There has been no response from Marin County Community Development Agency director, Brian Crawford, to the letter objecting to the CDA's failure to comply with CEQA regulations regarding Star Route Farm.

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  April 19, 2000 Board of Directors Meeting Minutes - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/19/2000    Last Visited: 1/19/2009  

  Consultant Paul Rottenberg has met with Brian Crawford of the Community Development Agency and Cynthia Barnard of EHS.

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  CCM News Release April 19, 2005 - The swelling... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/19/2005    Last Visited: 12/25/2006  

  In Marin County, Calif.,which was forced to start dealing with the issue earlier than other places due to San Francisco-area wealth, a 1997 "big-and-tall ordinance" requires design review for any home that's more than 4,000 square feet or over 30 feet high, said Brian Crawford, deputy director of planning services for the Marin County Community Development Agency.Why 4,000 square feet?"In 1997, 4,000 square feet was considered a large home."Now, Crawford said, "It's not unusual for us to get 6,000- to 8000-square-foot-home proposals.We had one recently that was 14,000 square feet." Earlier this year, the county bolstered its regulations to add an array of design considerations; planners can now consider the median home size of the surrounding neighborhood when deciding whether to approve a home, he said.

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  Cellular antenna for Point Reyes Station planned - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/5/2005    Last Visited: 5/5/2005  

  ,Deputy Director of Planning Services Brian Crawford told The Light while federal regulations prevent local agencies from blocking projects that meet federal standards on the grounds of health risks alone, planners are far from impotent in the permitting process.
  
  ,"Local agencies are prevented from appealing solely on basis of health impacts," he noted.
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  ,The county's telecommunication facility plan adopted in 1998 actually prefers collocation, explained Crawford.
  
  ,"In an effort to minimize proliferation of antennas throughout the county, collocation is the preferred method," he said."The county in general wants to minimize the dispersal of these sites to minimize the visual impacts."
  
  ,But, he added, any collocation around Point Reyes Station would require the applicant go through the entire planning and hearing process from scratch, as it falls into the "coastal zone."Further, he said, any decision by county planners would be appealable to the California Coastal Commission.And even though collocation is spelled out as a preferred method, it's not a blank check for the industry, he said.
  
  ,"Even though the county's telecom plan encourages collocation, there may be some instances in which collocation would result in more impact rather than another stand-alone facility," he said.

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