Carol Stauffer, AICP, Assistant Director, Chester County Planning Commission has over 30 years of professional planning experience, with a focus on municipal planning assistance and environmental resource protection at the local level. Carol played a key role in the development and subsequent updates to the county’s award winning comprehensive plan, Landscapes. In her current capacity as the Assistant Director, she served as project lead on the Chester County Climate Action Plan, adopted in 2021, working closely with the Commissioners’ Environmental and Energy Advisory Board. Carol holds a Master’s in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Geoenvironmental Studies from Shippensburg University.