Don Elliott, FAICP
Senior Consultant
delliott@clarionassociates.com
Don Elliott is a Senior Consultant in Clarion's Denver office. Mr. Elliott is a land use lawyer and city planner with 25 years of related experience. He has worked on a diverse array of projects in his career at Clarion, including:
- Land development codes,
- Growth management studies and regulations,
- Sustainability implementation strategies.
- Transferable development rights systems,
- Impact fee analyses and ordinances,
- International land use and governance systems,
- Design standards and guidelines, and
- Urban redevelopment evaluations.
Mr. Elliott has served as project director for major zoning and development code revisions in Detroit, Philadelphia, Winnipeg, Duluth, Kalamazoo, Cedar Rapids, as well as numerous smaller cities and counties throughout the country. He has drafted award-winning land use regulations for Denver and Aurora, Colorado, Routt County, Colorado, and Pima County, Arizona, and has spoken and written extensively on a wide variety of land use and legal topics. Mr. Elliott has served as the Democracy and Governance Advisor for USAID/Uganda for two years, and has consulted completed land use reform consultancies in India, Russia, and Indonesia. Mr. Elliott is the author of A Better Way to Zone (Island Press 2008), co-author of The Citizen’s Guide to Planning (APA 2009), and the editor of Colorado Land Planning and Development Law. Prior to joining Clarion Associates, Mr. Elliott served as Project Director for the Denver Planning and Community Development Office and was responsible for the Gateway and Downtown Zoning Projects. He began his career practicing real estate law for the Denver law firm of Davis, Graham & Stubbs. Mr. Elliott holds a master's degree in city and regional planning from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a Bachelor of Science degree in urban and regional planning from Yale University. Mr. Elliott is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a past president of the Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association, and a member of the American, Colorado, and Denver Bar Associations.