Bo Medred has 36 years of experience in the public and private sectors of land use planning in Florida. His primary expertise is in the zoning entitlement and the land development and redevelopment processes. For the past 29 years, Bo has led the land use planning and land development activities for numerous clients as President of Genesis Planning and Development, Inc., a company he founded in 1989. He has handled more than 300 different rezone and special exception applications during his planning career in Florida.

Prior to establishing Genesis Planning and Development, Inc., Bo was the planning coordinator for a large affordable home builder/developer in Sarasota and Manatee counties. While there, he coordinated the zoning entitlement and land development processes of eleven different residential communities that catered to entry-level homebuyers. Bo started his career in Sarasota in 1982 as a County Planner for Sarasota County after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning from West Virginia University. Bo and his wife Gina have raised four children in the Sarasota-Manatee area and are very fortunate to have all four of those children and their families living in the area.