Sustainability & Strategic Planning Staff

                                                     

                                                           Meet Our Staff

                                                                   

                                           Leif Olson                      Kristina Jones

Leif Olson, A.I.C.P.
Associate Planner

Leif has worked as a long range planner for the City of Fayetteville planning division since 2003.  He has managed multiple planning initiatives in Fayetteville in recent years including: the Low Impact Development Ordinance, the Block Avenue design, the Hillside/Hilltop Overlay District Ordinance, the Downtown Master Plan vision document, form-based code adoption and architectural standards, the Outdoor Lighting Ordinance, the Access Management and Street Design standards and the Accessory Dwelling Ordinance.  Leif serves as a liason between the City and the Green Infrastructure Natural Heritage Association project where he lends his expertise on the relationship between land use and sustainability; this issue was the topic of his presentation at a 2006 state conference held by the Arkansas Watershed Advisory group.

Leif earned a Bachelor of Science degree in City Planning from Missouri State University in 1993 and worked as a current planner in Kentucky prior to coming to Fayetteville.  His interest in urban planning policy is coupled with graphic skills that have been developed through the neighborhood planning process utilized by the City.  Leif also has extensive experience with moving complicated or difficult projects through the public approval process.

Kristina Jones,
Designer and Project Coordinator

Kristina has worked in leadership and support roles for the City of Fayetteville for five years.  As a member of the Sustainability & Strategic Planning team she is responsible for leading collaborative design projects, policy research, and the design and creation of documents such as the Streamside Protection BMP manual and City Plan document updates. She utilized Autocad and Google SketchUp to generate award winning 3D fly-through models that depicted idealized build-out for the Walker Park and Fayette Junction Neighborhood plans.  She also worked closely with planners and engineers during the Master Street Plan updates to compile and draft a uniform set of street cross-sections.  In addition to this she staffs Feed Fayetteville and the Fayetteville Community Garden Coalition.

Kristina earned a bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arkansas in 2000 and took a position with Mesa Design Group in Dallas where she worked for three years developing construction and bid sets for subdivision layout, design and detailing.  While in Dallas she served as staff for the ASLA State newsletter TX-ture, which was honored for an ASLA State Merit Award.  In addition to her work at Mesa, Kristina has also worked for other companies in the landscape architecture and engineering fields as a designer and drafter.