Beverly is a land use planner, passionate about supporting communities in their pursuit of sustainable community development. Her planning interests lie at the intersection of environmental issues and human behaviour. She is a skilled planner, facilitator, researcher, and policy analyst. As a resident of the Cowichan Valley, she pursues her career in a variety of professional capacities. Currently she is working with the Municipality of North Cowichan in the review of their Official Community Plan. Recently she was project leader in updating the Village of Teslin’s (Yukon) OCP.
Bev has guided and facilitated many different sectoral planning processes in her career. These include development of the community-based Cowichan Valley Food Security Action Plan, which has a major focus on farmers and agricultural lands in the Cowichan Valley. As well she designed and facilitated a public participation process in a tourism planning project undertaken for the District of Fort St. James. As Natural Resources Planner with the Hopi Indian Tribe from 1995 to 2000, she worked closely with residents and tribal government staff to develop a reservation-wide Integrated Resources Management Plan. She also managed the Hopi Drought Contingency Plan process and a variety of other environmental restoration projects.
Contact information:
Telephone: 250-737-1109
Email: bsuderman2005@gmail.com