Employee Profiles

Jessica Schmiedicke is an associate planner with the Growth Management Team, providing a range of growth management services to communities throughout the Midwest. Her main service areas include research and writing on comprehensive plans; coordinating public participation efforts such as community workshops; preparing digital (GIS) analysis maps to help answer planning questions; and assisting on implementation activities such as parks and public facility needs assessments, zoning ordinances, and development review services.

Among Jessica’s broad interests include land use, intergovernmental relationships, and the use of visual tools such as maps to communicate planning ideas and options. She also prides herself on careful attention to detail and quality, and on developing and nurturing effective relationships with client communities.

During her time at Vandewalle & Associates, Jessica has lead a variety of mapping efforts associated with a diverse range of the firm’s projects. These have included comprehensive plans (Baraboo, WI), tax increment financing district plans (Oregon, WI), parks and open space plans (Greenfield, WI), public facilities needs analyses (Delavan, WI), and zoning ordinances (Lee County, IL).

Jessica’s progressively challenging work with Vandewalle & Associates’ Growth Management Team has recently included research, meeting assistance, and writing on the three-community Sauk Prairie Comprehensive Plan, the multi-community Shawano Area Communities Comprehensive Planning Project, and the Lake Mills Impact Fee Assessment.

Education

M.S. Urban and Regional Planning
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

B.A. Community Leadership (Minor in Geography)
Aquinas College
Grand Rapids, Michigan