About Us
Our Team is composed of professionals with long experience in writing and processing amendments to comprehensive plans and developments of regional impact. Our professionals come from the public and private sector where they have addressed the challenges of taking complex planning issues and reducing them to language that meets state and local planning requirements. We are client focused and will work with you to resolve your issues. So, call us today.
Roger Wilburn
Roger Wilburn is the President of Plan Forward, LLC which is based in Tallahassee, Florida. Roger has more than 20 years of experience in comprehensive planning and state planning. Previous experience includes more than 20 years with the Florida Department of Community Affairs, including 14 years as an administrator leading a team of planners and managers. Roger also worked in the Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern and the Safe Neighborhoods Program.
Roger has high-level experience in more than 15 administrative hearing proceedings regarding urban and regional planning, comprehensive planning, Florida's growth management requirements, and the Area of Critical State Concern Program.
Specific Area of Experience
- Comprehensive planning
- Environmental planning
- Land development regulation
- Developments of Regional Impact
- Urban sprawl analysis
- Rural Land Stewardship Areas
- Optional Sector Plans
- Concurrency management
- Administrative rulemaking
- Expert witness testimony
Education
- M.P.A., Growth Management Fellow, Florida Atlantic University, 1983
- B.S., Florida International University 1979
Oscar Anderson
Oscar is a native of Central Florida and has extensive background in government. Beginning in 1992, Oscar served in both the legislative and executive branches of Florida government at the local, state, and federal levels. Oscar is a government expert that understands firsthand how to move bureaucracy to effect change. When Oscar left government service in 2005, he was dubbed “politically connected” by the St. Petersburg Times.
From 1998 to 2000, Oscar served as the chief lobbyist and primary staff for Orange County Chairman Mel Martinez, who served as Chairman of the Governor’s Growth Management Study Commission. The Growth Management Study Commission became the foundation for many of the changes to the growth management laws that passed the Legislature in 2005; such as the creation of the fiscal impact analysis, creation of state priorities, and more certainty to concurrency.
In 2000, President Bush appointed Mel Martinez as U.S. HUD Secretary. Oscar served as Secretary Martinez’s Deputy Chief of Staff and was instrumental in the creation of HUD’s Affordable Communities Initiative—reducing regulatory barriers of permitting and land use for affordable housing.
In 2003, Secretary Colleen Castille asked Oscar to serve as her Chief of Staff at the Department of Community Affairs (DCA), working on growth management and community development issues. While at DCA, Oscar directed passage of the Wekiva Parkway and Protection Act and helped create the framework of the Coastal High Hazard Study Committee to try and find a way for communities along our coast to begin to rebuild. In addition, Oscar was a key player in the first overhaul of the state’s growth management laws in twenty years. Senate Bill 360 altered the state’s role in planning and Oscar was able to influence many of the discussions that shaped the dramatic change in land use that now governs comprehensive planning.
As a policy and political expert in the land use and entitlement issues, Oscar works with developers and local governments to understand and capitalize on the changing requirements and new standards for compliance determinations by the state.
Oscar serves on the MyRegion.Org Board of Directors.