Get to Know Your Chapter Treasurer – Pattie Guttenplan

Pattie E. B. Guttenplan, RLA, AICP, is the Assistant Director of Design and Outreach at the Montgomery County Planning Commission in Montgomery County, PA, working to promote good design in the built environment and to strengthen planning ties within the region and throughout the state. She is an AICP-certified planner and a Landscape Architect registered in PA, with over 35 years of experience in land planning and design in both the public and private sectors. Pattie’s experience ranges from design and project management for large- and small-scale land developments to planning studies that include revitalization, comprehensive plans, streetscape and gateway initiatives, and public space design. Pattie has also led many public engagement events, including design charrettes which were held both in-person and virtually.

Pattie has been on the Southeast Section Council of the state chapter since 2018, and is currently serving as the Vice-Chair. She has been very active with the Events Committee as well as the state-wide Legislative Committee, where she serves as liaison to the southeast section. As a member of this committee, she was one of the chief architects of the chapter’s surface transportation policy adopted in 2020, and continues to work on policy initiatives for the committee and the chapter. Pattie is also a Pennsylvania Municipal Planning Education Institute (PMPEI) instructor in Zoning, Zoning Administration, and Community Planning.

A native of Lycoming County, PA, Pattie holds a degree in Landscape Architecture from Penn State University. She lives with her husband, Charlie Guttenplan, who is also a planner and their Airedale, Della. They have two grown sons: Jacob, a software engineer, and Aaron, an architectural designer. Pattie volunteers in her community, including serving as a trustee on a charter school board since 2001, and she enjoys quilting, piano, and singing.