Principal Profiles

Barry Carpenter, ASLA, President of Sympoetica, is an award-winning planner and designer with over thirty years of experience in community and urban design, land development planning, and park and recreation planning and design. He has exceptional expertise in designing private and public development projects within today’s complex public approval arena, including mixed-use projects, revitalization efforts and community master plans for governments and developers. He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Urban Land Institute, and has participated in numerous ULI Advisory Panels on mixed-use projects nationally; for four years he was on the Smart Growth Alliance project recognition jury in the Washington, DC region. Mr. Carpenter's innovative work on Transit-Oriented Development (TODs) has been published nationally in Urban Land and Landscape Architecture magazines. He was principal designer for the traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs) of Wyndhurst and Cornerstone in Lynchburg, Virginia. He has prepared plans and design guidelines for urban, historic and rural corridor design studies for Virginia localities, including Laskin Road & 30th Street in Virginia Beach, Princess Anne Street in Fredericksburg, Fifth Street in Lynchburg, and the Old Valley Pike (US Route 11) in Shenandoah County. Mr. Carpenter is a certified landscape architect in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from North Carolina State University.

Phoebe Kilby, AICP, Vice President of Sympoetica, has been a land use and environmental planner for over twenty-five years. Working both as a consultant and a local government planner, she has prepared comprehensive plans, neighborhood and downtown plans, urban design studies and guidelines, zoning ordinance amendments, community recreation plans, park master plans and environmental documents. A recent area of expanded practice is preservation planning, including the development of Civil War battlefield preservation plans. She has prepared numerous Civil War Battlefield Preservation Plans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, including plans for the battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic in Rockingham County, the battles of Fisher’s Hill and Tom’s Brook in Shenandoah County, and the battle of Third Winchester in Frederick County. Historic street and roadway corridor studies include Princess Anne Street in Fredericksburg, Fifth Street in Lynchburg, and the Old Valley Pike (US Route 11) in Shenandoah County. Ms. Kilby has prepared comprehensive plans and zoning ordinance documents for towns, cities and counties throughout Virginia.
Comfortable working with local, state and federal governments, she has led multi-disciplinary teams on complex multiyear projects as well as simple, goal-directed quick turnaround tasks. Ms. Kilby is an expert in public participation offering the latest consensus-building and problem-solving techniques. Citizens feel comfortable with her, often coming up after meetings to compliment her inclusive approach and sympathetic style. Her professional competence has been confirmed by the receipt of numerous awards from the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association. She holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Environmental Management degrees from Duke University, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University.