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Matthew T. Bucchin, AICP

Placemaking Solutions Leader
Halff
Austin, Texas

Matt Bucchin, AICP, LEED Green Associate is currently a Placemaking Solutions Leader at Halff, out of their Austin office. He has over 29 years of public and private sector experience at the city, state, and special district levels of government. Over the last 14 years, Matt has worked as a planning consultant and project manager on comprehensive, park, resilience, environmental, corridor, active transportation and downtown master planning processes and zoning and land development code projects.

Beyond his primary job duties, he has also taken leadership roles for several American Planning Association (APA) initiatives including being the Past Chair for the APA’s Sustainable Communities Division, project manager for APA’s Smart Cities and Sustainability Initiative (2014-2018) and Interest Group (2020-present). Previously, Matt was the co-author of APA’s 2022 Climate Mitigation and Adaptation PAS Report (#601) and contributing author and editor for APA’s Climate Change Policy Guide (2020) and the Rebuilding America Green Infrastructure Sub-Task Force Report (2011). Matt currently leads the Environment and Healthy Communities subcommittee for APA Texas’ legislative and policy efforts and frequently contributes as part of an advisory subgroup on communities to the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED for Cities and Communities Working Group (CCWG).

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