Marcia Boyle

AICP, Urban Designer

marcia@kendigkeast.com

Marcia’s work focuses on creating design tools that recognize and promote unique community character, often highlighting a link between historic resources and urban design. Her experience in the public and private sectors ensures a commitment to selecting and creating the appropriate design tools while confirming the tools will be easy to use and implement by all groups involved. Marcia joined KKC as an Urban Designer in 2021 and is based in Pittsburgh, PA. She works on urban design and historic preservation project components for a range of projects including zoning and land development codes, comprehensive plans, historic preservation plans, and historic district design guidelines for clients nationwide.

During graduate school, Marcia worked in the public sector as a Historic Preservation Coordinator for the City of Madison, Indiana. In this position, she worked alongside the Historic District Board of Review to review and grant Certificate of Appropriateness applications, managed the Preservation & Community Enhancement Grant Program, and helped community members determine appropriate alterations to historic buildings. As part of her Master’s thesis, Marcia worked with the City of Washington, Illinois to evaluate the potential of designating the downtown to the National Register of Historic Places. Simultaneously, she assisted in the adoption of the local downtown historic district and wrote the Washington Square Commercial Historic District Review Design Guidelines for use by the Washington Historic Preservation Commission.

After graduate school, Marcia began her professional career at Winter & Company, a nationally recognized urban planning, historic preservation and urban design firm in Boulder, Colorado. As an Associate Planner with the firm, Marcia worked on projects of all types including neighborhood plans, zoning codes, urban design guidelines, historic preservation ordinances, historic preservation plans, historic district design guidelines, and historic district certificate of appropriateness review. In all projects, Marcia assisted not only in the product development, but in the community outreach efforts to ensure the process was driven by the community members. Marcia has presented at project kickoff meetings, designed online community surveys, facilitated hands-on community workshops, written relevant project deliverables, and presented to Planning Commissions and City Councils for adoption hearings. She recognizes the importance of employing a range of public outreach tools to reach as many community members as possible in order to create a product tailored to the community at hand.