Rebecca Roberts
Land Use Specialist
Email: Rebecca.Roberts@uwsp.edu
Office: UWSP-CNR
Phone: 715.346.4322
Rebecca Roberts is a Land Use Specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension at the
Center for Land Use Education. Becky provides training workshops for
plan commissions, zoning boards, and other local land use officials.
She also assists communities with comprehensive planning, public
participation, plan implementation and the fiscal impacts of land use
decisions. She is managing editor of the Land Use Tracker newsletter, author of the Plan Commission Handbook, and coauthor of the Zoning Board Handbook and Land Use Megatrends
series.
Becky holds a Bachelor of Arts in biology and environmental studies
from Augustana College and a Master of Urban Planning from the
University of Illinois. For her master's research, Becky worked with the
Lake Michigan Federation to evaluate the land use plans and regulations
of lakeshore communities in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
Prior to coming to CLUE, she worked for the U.S. Army Construction
Engineering Research Laboratory, where she helped to create a regional
land use model and decision support system enabling citizens, planners
and policy-makers to visualize and test the social, economic and
environmental impacts of land use scenarios.