Rick Williams

A Founding Partner of Van Meter Williams Pollack, Rick Williams is a leader in urban design and transit-oriented development. With a background in both planning and architecture, Rick focuses on projects involving mixed-use, transit-oriented community plans and architectural design. His architectural work ranges from mixed-use neighborhoods, urban infill, multifamily affordable and workforce housing throughout the Bay Area. Rick�s understanding of building types and the public realm informs urban design projects that benefit from realistic implementation strategies, objective development standards and qualitative design guidelines.� His urban design efforts include local and national TOD and infill plans and award-winning development regulations. Rick has worked extensively with public agencies, cities, nonprofit organizations, in diverse and disenfranchised communities.� He is adept at negotiating the regulatory framework and writing innovative codes and guidelines to articulate the design vision for mixed-use, pedestrian and transit-oriented development.� Rick�s current focus is the implementation of complex, visionary design projects whose success integrates high quality design, strong community engagement, unique financing and public-private development partnerships. Rick has lectured extensively on issues of contemporary urban planning, and his urban design projects have been published in books and leading design and planning journals.