Excerpt from the Daily Progress, March 9, 2010 article, "Planning Commission doles out annual awards"

— The citizen planner of the year award was given to Kay Slaughter, a former city mayor, for her comments on critical slopes on behalf of the Southern Environmental Law Center. [Kay Slaughter is an adjunct faculty member in the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Planning]

— The Eldon Fields Wood Design Professional of the Year award was given to John Quale, a University of Virginia assistant professor in architecture. Quale is the director of UVa’s ecoMOD project, which constructs and rehabilitates homes to make them more environmentally sustainable.

— The outstanding sustainable development award was given to the ecoMOD and ecoREMOD projects at UVa, which worked in partnership with the city government and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville.