Roger Waldon, FAICP
Roger is a Senior Consultant based in the North Carolina office. His work emphasizes neighborhood conservation and growth management, including land use plans and special area plans, design guidelines, transportation planning, annexation, capital improvements, housing and community development initiatives, and evaluation of development applications. Prior to joining Clarion, he served as Planning Director for the Town of Chapel Hill for 21 years, directing the Town’s comprehensive planning and growth management functions. He has also served as an elected official on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. Roger is a frequent speaker at national planning conferences and has lectured on planning topics at Universities in Massachusetts and North Carolina. His writing includes articles on planning processes and neighborhood conservation, and a book published by the American Planning Association, Planners and Politics. He is a contributor to the 2009 edition of ICMA’s “Green Book,” Local Planning: Contemporary Principles and Practice. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.