Bay Park Conservancy

 Bill Waddill is a certified planner and landscape architect with over 32 years of experience managing the design, public engagement, and implementation process for both public and private projects, including the Bradenton Riverwalk, Siesta Beach Park, Perry Harvey Park in Tampa, Babcock Ranch Town Center in Ft. Myers, and Baker Park in Naples. He is a member of the AICP, PLA, and ASLA. In January 2018, Bill began his role as Managing Director of the nonprofit Sarasota Bayfront Planning Organization, to work with design and planning firm Sasaki, to prepare a master plan that reimagines the 53-acre city-owned Bayfront. In January 2019, SBPO evolved into The Bay Park Conservancy, a nonprofit conservancy focused on the funding, implementation, and operation of The Bay Park, in partnership with the City of Sarasota, in a way that is fiscally feasible, operationally viable, and environmentally sustainable.