Press Release:
Citygate Associates, LLC is pleased to announce that Richard Carson has joined the firm as a Senior Associate.
Mr. Carson augments the strengths of Citygate's core mission to provide professional services to local governments in the areas of general management, consulting, strategic planning, organizational development and character training and consultation.
Mr. Carson's specific areas area of expertise are planning, engineering, building inspection, code enforcement and animal control functions in local government.
Rich will also be Citygate's regional manager for the Pacific Northwest states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Mr. Carson has over 30-years professional experience at the city, county, regional and state level. Rich holds a Bachelor of Science from Portland State University, a Masters in Public Administration from Lewis and Clark College and is a doctoral student at Washington State University.
For more information about Richard Carson and Citygate Associates, please visit our website at:
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News Updates
Public Broadcasting System
I was interviewed for the PBS docu-mentary Making Sense of Place: Portland. It is the last in a three-part story of land use planning in America featuring the Phoenix, Cleveland and Portland-Vancouver metropolitan areas. The film company is Northern Light Productions out of Boston. The Portland-Vancouver program will air in spring 2009. The documentary is about the impact of land use planning in these metropolitan areas.
See The Columbian article.
In it Rich says, "Portland has learned a lesson. Under Ballot Measure 37 they were just sent reeling. It was very embarrassing for them to be the Nirvanna capital of planning in the country and then have the population turn on you and slap you around and say, 'NO, you aren't going to do this anymore!'"
The premier planning website lists the top essays on its 8th birthday. Including a couple of my essays.
