Planning Central Point, Oregon: Tom Humphrey | Stories of Southern Oregon
Channel: Stories of Southern Oregon
Date: 2021-06-23

Nationally certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners in 1993, Tom Humphrey has over thirty years of professional planning experience in city and regional government. He served as the Umpqua Regional Council of Government’s Community Development Director for three years before coming to the City of Central Point as Community Development Director.  Over the past 24 years in Central Point, Tom has initiated a Downtown Revitalization program; overseen Central Point’s periodic review and strategic plan implementation processes; facilitated new mixed-use and transit oriented developments including the award-winning Twin Creeks; assisted the Central Point school district with facilities planning; participated in local and area-wide transportation funding efforts; and was one of the key players in developing a regional plan for Southern Oregon, the first such plan adopted in Oregon.  Tom is a proponent of ‘Destination Businesses’, served on the Jackson County Airport Advisory Committee and was an At-Large Board Member of the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association (OAPA). 

Derek Severson, who is Senior Planner for the City of Ashland, interviewed Humphrey as the first in a series of video oral histories focusing on land use and city planning in Southern Oregon. Severson is a Rogue Valley native and has worked in Ashland's planning division for more than 25 years.  

This episode of the Stories of Southern Oregon is made possible in part by a grant from the Oregon Heritage Commission to Southern Oregon University.

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