Ferhat Zerin
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With over 20 years of planning and architectural design experience, Zerin has focused primarily on public sector projects both in urban downtowns and the suburbs. As founder of GINKGO Planning and Design, Inc.,she is committed to bringing quality planning services that prioritize long term public needs over private interests. Her work experience includes lead planner roles both in the public and the private sectors, from transit oriented developments, comprehensive plans and codes, large master plans, and implementation. She is a strong advocate of bringing change to prototypical planning practices in the region-shifting from planning “diagrams” that cannot be built, to viable “designs” that can be realized. Zerin became a Fellow of theAmerican Planning Association in 2018 for her contribution to innovation in planning and design.