Core to Shore Planning Team: Sara Jane Maclennan
URS Corporation

Sara Jane Maclennan has 20 years of experience in urban design and transportation/land use planning, landscape architecture, master and small area planning, downtown revitalization, transit station area planning, and public facilitation. She specializes in Framework planning for downtowns, streetscape design, comprehensive planning, and corridor planning. Sara Jane is a Senior Associate with the Colorado Springs URS’ Community Planning Unit.

Sara Jane has spent most of her career working on large projects from the beginning stages to construction. She was a team member working with environmental and engineering professionals on many CDOT projects over the last 12 years including Powers Boulevard, the Colorado Avenue Bridge Project, and the Woodmen Corridor, all in Colorado Springs. Sara Jane also was a key member of the environmental and design teams for the US550/160 Feasibility Study in Durango and the Gaming Corridor Study focused on 119 in Blackhawk, and Central City, Colorado. Most recently, Sara Jane was the senior advisor for the landscape architecture and aesthetics team for the Northwest Parkway which included the design of a featured bridge as well as landscape at key intersections and the toll plaza. These projects were designed to be practical, sustainable, and attractive.

Sara Jane has had the privilege of working with hundreds of local leaders, practice leaders, citizens and governments to create special places and improve transportation systems that make the community a better place to live.

Her education includes a Bachelor of Science in Geography from the University of Massachusetts/Salem State College, a Master of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Colorado and post graduate studies in real estate development and financial analysis at Harvard University.