Lynée Wells is a community planner and strategist
working with public and private sector clients for her firm, Aligned Planning.

Bio

Lynée is a systems-thinker, connecting cause and effect through a shared education and engagement process unique to the time, place, and people involved. Interests include connectivity, livability, and inclusive and equitable places and processes.

Lynée led the Roosevelt Park/Grandville Avenue Area Specific Plan, the Plaza Roosevelt Design, and subsequent facilitation for Grand Rapids Public Schools to assist in the programming for the new neighborhood high school. Lynée organized Grand Rapid’s first Build a Better Block on State Street installing the City’s first protected bike lane (protected by rolls of sod). A subsequent project was the GR Urban Explorers, a multi-modal, urban day camp for kids. Both projects have won awards from the Michigan Chapter of the American Planning Association. She also serves the Board for the Michigan Planning Association as the Professional Development Officer.

Lynée has served on the steering committees for GR Forward and the Calder Plaza redesign, and is working with the Grand Rapids Parks Department to help design its first new park in decades. Ms. Wells led the engagement phase for the River for All project in Grand Rapids and continues to serve in various capacities to ensure its implementation.

She led the Bicycle Master Plan for the City of Hastings and engagement for the MDOT Grand Region Non-motorized Transportation Plan, SMART transit’s Comprehensive Operations Analysis in metro Detroit and the recently adopted Non-motorized Transportation Plan for the City of Holland. In 2018, Ms. Wells was named one of West Michigan’s 50 Most Influential Women. She serves as a Grand Rapids representative appointed by the mayor on the Grand Valley Metro Council Board, and is chair of the Mobile Grand Rapids Commission.

Ms. Wells holds a Master’s Degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of New Mexico, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa in Geography and Spanish.

EDUCATION

M.S., Community and Regional Planning
University of New Mexico

B.A., Geography and Spanish
University of Iowa

REGISTRATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Form Based Code Institute

American Institute of Certified Planners 

Certificate of International Business, University of Iowa

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Planning Association

Michigan Association of Planning
Professional Development Officer

Grand Valley Metro Council 
Member, Representing City of Grand Rapids

City of Grand Rapids, Mobile GR
Vice Chair