Leslie Allen

Overview

Leslie Allen is a Principal with WRA, Inc. She brings 27 years of experience working in the public and private sectors.  Leslie specializes in managing multidisciplinary teams to support clients through complex environmental permitting, mitigation, and monitoring efforts in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The technical skills that Leslie developed earlier in her career as a field biologist, wetland delineator, and construction monitor inform her approach to navigating environmental compliance and the relationships among regulators, project proponents, construction contractors, and other stakeholders. Leslie is experienced with managing projects from conception to completion. She also is adept at picking up projects where others have left off and getting them to construction.

Leslie manages preparation of project-specific permit applications, consultation packages and mitigation plans to satisfy regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), State and Regional Water Quality Control Boards (RWQCB), California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), California State Lands Commission, and California State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). Leslie also handles permitting and compliance with local ordinances that protect streams, wetlands and trees.