Phoenix in Perspective: Reflections on Developing the Desert
Grady Gammage Jr. is an Arizona native who has practiced  law in Phoenix since his graduation from Stanford Law School. He has  spent the last 20 years dealing with land use, development, and growth  issues; representing real estate development projects such as  master-planned communities, high-rise buildings, regional shopping  centers, and sprawling tracts of subdivisions; and consulting with  cities and towns. In 1981, Mr. Gammage was instrumental in structuring  Arizona's innovative Urban Lands Act, which allowed state trust lands  to be released for private development. He has chaired the Phoenix  Design Review Standards Committee twice, helping create mechanisms to  regulate the aesthetics of commercial and residential development. He  serves as an elected official as a board member of the Central Arizona  Water Conservation District, and was president of that board from  1985-89. Mr. Gammage is also an adjunct professor at the Arizona State  University Colleges of Architecture and Environmental Design and Law,  where he teaches classes on land use regulation and on historic  preservation planning.