Fred Jones brings more than 20 years of experience in transportation planning, complete streets, urban design, placemaking, transit accessibility and public engagement to his role within Haskell’s Planning & Design Collaborative. He brings a focus on implementation through strategy, policy, and design to resolve community and infrastructure barriers inspiring communities to create spaces and places.
Fred launched his career after earning a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of South Florida and a Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University. Jones directly links his education to his work in planning, asserting that “urban planning is anthropology” in the way that “human beings develop strategies to respond to their environment.” He brings an encouraging, empathetic, and equitable perspective to urban planning, quoting Jane Jacobs, author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” to say: “There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them…that we must fit our plans.”
Fred has been working in professional planning and project management since 2002. He sits on multiple committees, like the National Complete Streets Coalition Steering Committee and Jacksonville’s Downtown Development Review Board, for which he was Chairman. Most recently, Fred served as the Vice Mayor of Neptune Beach, which was recognized as having one of the best Complete Streets Policies of 2018.
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