James (Jim) H. Pedersen
Principal Planner/Project Manager

Relevant Experience

Jim Pedersen is the principal planner of Pedersen Planning Consultants, as well as vice president of its parent company, Pedersen Corporation.  As principal planner, Pedersen is the project manager for most of the projects completed by Pedersen Planning Consultants.  In addition, he also participates significantly in the performance of specific technical project tasks and related project coordination.  

Pedersen has 36 years of planning experience and has managed, participated, and authored a wide variety of regional and community land use, infrastructure, economic development, and natural resource management plans, as well as various feasibility studies.  He has served in both private and public planning capacities and completed short to long-term project assignments in Wyoming, Colorado, Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau. 

Pedersen has prepared community master plans or community development plans for Wyoming communities including the Town of Wright, Town of Burlington, Town of Frannie, Town of Alpine, and Town of Encampment. 

Pedersen managed and participated in the preparation of the Johnson County Comprehensive Land Use Plan.  This plan, in part, considered anticipated land use demands, population growth, the consequences of expanded rural development, natural resource issues, future land use management, and the recommendation of land use development patterns for the unincorporated areas of Johnson County.

Pedersen managed and participated in the preparation of the Carbon County Land Use Plan, which was adopted by Carbon County, Wyoming in 1998.  This plan involved his detailed evaluation of regional land use issues, economic and demographic trends, environmental and natural resource issues, and the recommendation areas for future land use expansion.  

Jim Pedersen has also managed the firm's completion of a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for both Sweetwater and Carbon County, Wyoming. 

Pedersen made a substantive review of regional economic issues and trends, community assets, and barriers to economic investment.  In addition, he outlined specific economic development strategies for a five-year planning period.

In 2002, he managed an evaluation of economic development opportunities for the Town of Wamsutter, a small town along Interstate 80 that is significantly influenced by natural gas development and vehicular traffic.  Pedersen supervised the development of a statistical model that forecasted potential employment generation for natural gas development, as well as economic development opportunities for retail sales, retail services, and overnight accommodations.

Pedersen managed a manufacturing and industrial opportunities project for the Goshen County Economic Development Corporation.  This project involved his evaluation of available commodities, rail infrastructure and highway networks and other community assets, the identification of economic development opportunities, as well as determination of barriers to future economic investment.   PPC used this information to develop marketing materials and prospect selected industrial companies in the United States.

Pedersen supervised and participated in the preparation of a Tualauta County Land Use Plan in the U.S. Territory of American Samoa.  This plan, in part, involved his development of growth management and infrastructure policies, as well as recommended land use patterns for a rapidly growing area on the Island of Tutuila.  

Pedersen has also managed and participated in regional utility master plans for water, wastewater, and electrical power systems, as well as transportation plans for roads, community airports, and commercial harbors.  This experience has typically involved his development of anticipated service demands, the evaluation of past and future capital, operation and maintenance costs, and the development of strategies for new construction, facility improvements, as well as system operation and maintenance. 

In 2004, Pedersen managed the firm’s evaluation of socio-economic consequences of the proposed Entrega Gas Pipeline project that will extend through seven counties in northeast and northwest Colorado, as well as southcentral and southeast Wyoming. 

Pedersen has extensive experience associated with community involvement programs that represent an important component of almost every land use or community development plan completed by the firm.  Pedersen regularly facilitates discussions of land use issues and community recommendations with elected officials and community leaders, the general public, small business and industry representatives, utility managers, and other special interests.  Pedersen has developed a variety of effective techniques for encouraging substantive community input and the integration of community concerns and recommendations to project recommendations.

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