Sol Blumenfeld is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and received Master Degrees in city planning and design from the Graduate School of Design at University of Pennsylvania and in Landscape Architecture from California Polytechnic University. He has worked in the areas of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning and urban design in the public and private sectors as a Planning Director, Community Development Director and Program Administrator.

He has been a Community Development Director in three cities, implementing downtown revitalization and redevelopment programs. Most recently at the City of Hermosa Beach, he was the Community Development Director overseeing city planning, economic development, building and safety, code enforcement, transit, CDBG and recycling programs. During his tenure, the city successfully implemented a downtown revitalization that generated over 100 million dollars of private reinvestment that included municipal parking with retail frontage, a four-star beachfront resort hotel, a pedestrian promenade that provides a venue for retail, restaurants and public events and the establishment of new downtown businesses. He is a credentialed California Building Official and teaches land planning and design at U.C.L.A. extension.