David G. Van Skike

Senior Land Use Planner

206.623.9372

dvs@vnf.com

Assistant

Millennium Tower
719 Second Avenue Suite 1150
Seattle, WA 98104

David has over twenty years of experience in land development, planning, and environmental issues, including work for both the public and private sector. His experience includes project management and permitting, administration and development of land use and shoreline regulations, regulatory due diligence, research and analysis of technical data, environmental impact assessment, preparation of staff reports, and public involvement. He provides coordination and implementation services for large and complex planning and development projects. He is currently assisting several large industrial clients obtain Clean Air and Shoreline permits, working with multifamily and mixed use developers to permit new developments, and assisting several institutional/municipal clients with long-range land use planning.

Evergreen State College

B.A., 2002

ACLU

City of Seattle

Registered Lobbyist
  • Managed agency relations and regulatory project management of several University of Washington projects, including the Bioengineering Genome Science building, a 250,000 square foot facility for biomedical research in the heart of the university's campus. This project was issued a Shoreline Substantial Development permit with a final EIS action in less than four months through strategic collaboration between the university and review agencies.
  • Lobbied on behalf of several large shoreline land owners to obtain favorable modifications to proposed shoreline regulations.
  • Authored development regulations, including engineering, environmental, shoreline, and design review requirements for jurisdictions such as City of Seattle, Kitsap County, and several smaller municipalities in Kittitas County.
  • Led a variety of permitting and plan approval processes: project permitting for mixed-use and multifamily developers, strategic long-range land plans, and EIS creation for North Seattle and Shoreline Community Colleges; rezones land use entitlements for several non-profit low income housing developers including Compass, Catholic Housing Services, and Urban Impact.