Kansier Honored with APA MN Lifetime Achievement Award
The Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA MN) has named Jane Kansier, AICP as this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award honoree. With a distinguished career spanning nearly 40 years, Jane has made significant contributions to urban planning and community development throughout the State of Minnesota, and beyond. Her visionary leadership, dedication to sustainable practices, and unwavering commitment to improving overall quality of life have left a lasting mark on the urban planning field.
About Jane
Jane enjoys managing and coordinating multiple components of a project to see it all come together. She began her planning career in 1984 and has worked in city and county planning, city administration, and public transit. As a senior urban planner, Jane identifies and gathers pieces from multiple disciplines and puts them together into a final product. She provides day-to-day planning services for our clients and works with them to create and update their comprehensive plans. Her experience includes coordinating and developing comprehensive plans, zoning ordinances, city codes, site plans, land use and development review, grant writing, public transit, and project management. Jane is known for her approach to creative problem solving.
About the APA MN Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award, as given by the Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association, celebrates the contributions across the career of a member of the chapter. As a professional, the recipient will be recognized for invention and creativity. The recipient will exhibit commitment and dedication to the field of planning, expressed through practice, education, and/or community service. As a leader, the recipient will have contributed to the vitality of the chapter or national association through elected or appointed roles. The Lifetime Achievement Award recipient should be widely recognized as visible leaders in the field, who have had sustained impacts and have been advocates for planning throughout their careers.
Learn more about Jane’s APA MN recognition as the 2022 recipient of the Lynn Jorgenson Award.
