IRVINE, CA—The governance committee of the Urban Land Institute's Orange County/Inland Empire district council has appointed Randal W. Jackson as district council chairman. Jackson, president of private planning and design consulting firm PlaceWorks, succeeds Michael Ruane, chief of strategic and public affairs for CalOptima, who served between 2011 and 2014.

Jackson is a registered landscape architect with more than 40 years of planning and design experience. He has conceived and designed unique land-use and design concepts for award-winning communities throughout California, in the US and abroad. Jackson continues to focus his work on creating and shaping healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities built around and integrating transit, open space and parks and recreation systems.

A ULI member for 25 years, Jackson recently completed a two-year term as chairman of ULI's community development council, a national product council leading the discussion in the areas of suburban new communities, suburban large-scale multi-use communities, rehabilitation/reuse, asset management and process. His is also a governor of the ULI Foundation.

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Carrie Rossenfeld

Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.