Thomas J. Comitta, AICP, CNU-A, RLA

As President and founder of Thomas Comitta Associates, Inc., (TCA), Thomas J. Comitta serves as Principal-In-Charge and Operations Manager. He has blended his roles as a Town Planner and Landscape Architect on numerous projects for municipal and private clients.

Tom is an expert in communications and has utilized his verbal and graphic skills for many assignments pertaining to: town planning; landscape architecture; expert witness testimony; public participation; preference surveys related to community development; and land planning mediation. He is a frequent lecturer at town planning workshops, and conducts training sessions on town planning, form-based codes, and traditional neighborhood development.

Tom has traveled extensively in the United States and Europe and has studied many traditional towns and neighborhoods, new towns and new communities. He believes that compact development with attractive and functional public spaces is a needed alternative to conventional suburban sprawl. He promotes a humanistic, sustainable and balanced approach to planning and design through careful consideration of the historic and cultural context of towns, neighborhoods and landscapes.