Donovan Toews

  • Sessional Instructor
    Department of City Planning
    University of Manitoba

Education

  • MCP, University of Manitoba
  • BSC (Geography), University of Winnipeg

Biography

Donovan Toews Donovan has 22 years of experience in the planning field. He was a business leader for the largest planning group in Manitoba for seven years and has an established reputation as a leader in effective public engagement practices. He has worked extensively for both public and private sector clients in the land use planning, infrastructure planning, and land development sectors.

Donovan is now a principal of Landmark Planning and manages major projects throughout Manitoba. He is s an industry leader in strategic land planning and public engagement, specializing in strategic processes for major infrastructure projects including urban developments, bridges, highways, hydro transmission and water facilities. Donovan is a practiced and proven effective facilitator and has applied those skills to complex, multi-stakeholder, often controversial projects successfully.

Donovan has an extensive knowledge of municipal and provincial statutes and regulations concerning land development and planning. He is also an active volunteer in the planning community and has served as president of the Manitoba Professional Planners Institute (MPPI) and Vice President of the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP).

Teaching

  • CITY 7470 Professional Planning Practice

Faculty and staff      Department of Landscape Architecture faculty