Bob was active 2005-2006 on Planning & Development and Public Works in Whatcom County, WA. He worked with Birch Bay Steering Committee on Design Guidelines and Standards, with Sudden Valley Community Association, and Western Washington U in Communications/University Relations plus GIS/Planning/Emergency Mgmt.

Bob has a long tradition of public service, derived from family tradition of Anglican priests that goes back to missionary times in his home country of New Zealand, and family members educated by the Dilworth Trust where he served as Housemaster for two years. This was after a decade in Houston where he was the Junior Warden at Church of Redeemer and Board member of Eastwood Civic Association. Bob served as Planning Commissioner in Yardley, PA while working for Mobil R&D in Princeton and a founding board member of his mother's Simply Reading literacy trust in NZ.

Bob used his master-planning, transportation and land use knowledge as an oil industry facilities engineer to submit detailed EIS testimony and comment on a major Canal Rd traffic entrance into Georgetown University; also testimony and comment on a land transfer with National Park Service for a mayoral residence. He represented FCCA on 10-year Campus Plan negotiations with three universities, and with Board of Zoning Adjustment processes to allow/expand private schools in that neighborhood: relocated Rock Creek International School and Field School, plus expanded Georgetown Day, Lab School and St. Patricks.