• "Understanding Design Controls in Local Land Development Codes" (5/2008) presented at American Institute of Architects, Boston, Massachusetts



• "Green Building and Green Development" (4/2008) presented at Town of Glastonbury Conservation Commission/Inland Wetlands Agency and its Town Plan and Zoning Commission



• "Keeping or Replacing Code Provisions," "Adopting Form-Based Codes," and "Discretionary Review of Project-Specific Applications by Local Appointed and Elected Boards," presented at "Form-Based Codes 301: Completing, Adopting, and Administering the Code" (2008) sponsored by Arizona State University and the Form-Based Codes Institute, panelist



• "Form and Substance: What New York Land Use Lawyers Need to Know About Form-Based Land Development Regulations", coauthored with Joel Russell (12/2007), published in New York Zoning and Practice Report No. 3



• "Emerging and Recently Established Influences and Tools in Land Use Regulation" (2007) presented at Advanced Zoning and Land Use Seminar, Lorman Education Services


Additional Publications and Presentations

• American Bar Association (ABA)
• ABA, State & Local Government Law Section, New Urbanism Subcommittee, chair
• American Institute of Architects
• American Institute of Certified Planners
• American Planning Association - Planning & Law Division and New Urbanism Division
• Congress for the New Urbanism
• Form Based Codes Institute, Board of Directors
• National Association of Home Builders' LANDS Network

• J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law
• M.U.R.P., University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
• B. of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture

Mr. Sitkowski has worked as a city attorney and an urban planner for local governments in Pennsylvania, and for five years before entering legal practice, he practiced architecture and urban design in Chicago and Pittsburgh. He is a registered architect and a certified planner.

Mr. Sitkowski has written extensively about legal aspects of the New Urbanism and has spoken on this and other land use law topics at meetings and symposia of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, the Brookings Institution, the American Planning Association, the Seaside Institute, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the International Municipal Lawyers Association, the American Institute of Architects, and the American Bar Association. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Form-Based Codes Institute. He is a past winner of the American Planning Association's R. Marlin Smith Writing Competition, and in 2002, he was named one of the "New Leaders of the Law" by the Connecticut Law Tribune, a distinction given to attorneys practicing ten years or less who have gained success in their law practice as indicated by their influence in the law profession or bar, by service to clients, or by gaining the respect of their professional colleagues.

Mr. Sitkowski earned a bachelor of architecture in design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a master of urban and regional planning from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is admitted to practice in Connecticut, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.