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Contact:            Pete Winton, Lee County Administration
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DALTRY RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

FORT MYERS, Fla. (October 25, 2002) – Lee County Smart Growth Director Wayne Daltry has received the Florida Planning and Zoning Association’s highest award for lifetime achievement.

The 2002 “George W. Simons, Jr. Memorial Award” recognizes Daltry for “his outstanding contribution to the profession of planning and zoning in the State of Florida.”

The FPZA has a membership of more than 1,000 people and organizations that promote cooperation among official planning and zoning boards or commissions, civic bodies, citizens, technicians and students interested in planning and zoning in the State of Florida.  It also helps shape and promotes state planning and zoning legislation.  Simons was an early pioneer of planning and zoning in Florida.

Daltry was tapped in February to head the county’s newly created Smart Growth Department and shepherd the citizen Smart Growth Advisory Committee through a process to make recommendations that help balance quality of life, the economy and our environment heading into the future.  Well-known in Southwest Florida, he was formerly executive director of the Regional Planning Council for 20 years and worked for the agency for 27 years.  He is a graduate of The Citadel and has a master’s in planning from Florida State University.

This year Daltry was selected as one of Gulfshore Life Magazine’s 12 “Men & Women of the Year” in Southwest Florida.

He also was recently honored by the Florida Shore & Beach Preservation Association with its 2002 “Local Government Award” for his efforts to help create the Southwest Florida Beaches and Inlets Convocation, an innovative organization that enables beach and inlet interests in the region to work together to better manage their projects.