Lindsley Williams is an experienced land use planner and has extensive knowledge of the Comprehensive Plans applicable to the District of Columbia since 1984 and the related comprehensive plan amendment processes (with both Federal and "municipal" components), and the zoning regulations of the District of Columbia. He appears regularly as an expert witness before the Zoning Commission of the District of Columbia, the Board of Zoning Adjustment and the Mayor's Agent for Historic Preservation. He has also served as an expert in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
For eight years, concurrent with his full-time Federal employment as a Commissioned Officer of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), Mr. Williams served on the Zoning Commission of the District of Columbia including serving as its Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. By virtue of that position, Mr. Williams also served, as did other Commission members, as one of the members of the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
Mr. Williams served as Co-Chairperson of a Task Force designed to produce the legislative materials needed by which the Council of the District of Columbia could proceed to adopt reforms identified by the Business Regulatory Reform Commission (BRRC). This effort involved bringing together more than a dozen land use professionals (mainly attorneys), analyzing each of the nearly 100 recommendations, and preparing a written report for the Council and its committee on Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.
Mr. Williams also served as Director for Land Use within the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, Government of the District of Columbia. Mr. Williams provided guidance to staff of the Office of Planning at a time when it had no director, and helped the Director assume his duties once appointed.
For nearly thirty years, Mr. Williams has also had substantial involvement in transportation issues in the communities in which he has resided. Mr. Williams was appointed to Transportation Citizen's Advisory Committee, Washington Metropolitan Area Council of Governments for two two-year terms, elected within to serve as Vice Chairperson.