Garlynn Woodsong

Project Coordinator

Garlynn Woodsong is a Senior Planner in the regional and large‐scale master planning team at Calthorpe Associates. He is a geographer & urban planner with more than 10 years experience in transportation, land use, and regional and corridor planning and policy. His work and experience ranges from transit‐oriented development, to environmental justice, bicycle transportation planning, regional transportation policy and funding, and the use of GIS technology to support smart growth and regional planning efforts.

At Calthorpe Associates, Garlynn has been working thus far exclusively on the Vision California project.

Prior to joining Calthorpe Associates, Mr. Woodsong spent 8 years with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) in Oakland, CA, where he worked on a variety of projects including: the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Study (with the Center for Neighborhood Technology, the Center for Transit Oriented Development and Strategic Economics); the Lifeline Transportation Study; the Environmental Justice (EJ) analysis of the 2001 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP); multiple iterations of the Regional Bicycle Plan; multiple iterations of the RTP; and the 511 online bicycle trip planner.

At the Portland Bureau of Transportation in Portland, Oregon, Mr. Woodsong focused on the intersection of local transportation planning and the use of Geographic Information Systems. He also spent time at Tri‐Met in Portland, where he worked on public outreach, community affairs, historical transit studies and station area planning.

Garlynn Woodsong received his Bachelor of Arts in Geography from Portland State University in Oregon, and his Associates of Liberal Arts from Simon’s Rock College in Massachusetts.