JOAN LAMPHIER, MCP – IN MEMORIAM
Joan Lamphier was an urban planner specializing in environmental review in Northern California. She held a Master’s Degree in City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. She was the founding principal of Lamphier-Gregory a Consulting firm that specialized in planning and implementing the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Her work, in over 80 California jurisdictions, involved the environmental review of major infrastructure projects that included dams, refineries, pipelines, transmission lines, and corporate complexes. As a result of that work, she had extensive knowledge of habitats and rare and endangered species.
Since leaving the firm to the next generation in 2010, she established a solo practice. In addition to serving on Project Coyote’s Advisory Board, Ms. Lamphier was also involved with several environmental organizations as a long-term volunteer, including the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (Hawkwatch), Farallones Marine Sanctuary (Beach Watch), Point Reyes National Seashore (Seals, Tule Elk Docent), Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Audubon Canyon Ranch (Heron Nesting Survey). These long-term commitments provided the opportunity to contribute to long-term data monitoring of specific species.