User:Richcarson

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Richard Carson is a Senior Associate with Citygate Associates -- a company dedicated to improving the best business practices of city, county, regional and state government agencies. Rich was President of the Southwest Section of the American Planning Association's Washington Chapter and state board member, and a former Vice-Chair with the Urban Land Institute, Oregon-SW Washington District Council. Rich is also a former elected official of the American Planning Association's Oregon Chapter and Oregon Planners' Journal editor for four years. Rich currently maintains the American Planning Association's Planning Publication's Directory website and was the Urban Studies editor for LookSmart and DMOZ.

Rich was the Director of Clark County's Community Development Department in Vancouver, Washington which has 166 employees, $15 million annual budget and reviews $588 million in new constuction annually. He was the director of METRO (the Portland area's regional government with jurisdiction over 1.2 million people) and acting city manager/director of Community Development for the city of Oregon City. He was also a member of the Mayor's Growth Management Committee for Portland, Oregon.

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