Harriet Tregoning is leaving her post as the District’s longtime director of planning to take a job in the Obama administration.
Her resignation is effective Feb. 23, the Office of Planning announced, via its Twitter feed. Tregoning is headed to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"Thank you @MayorVinceGray for the tremendous honor and privilege of being the Director of the DC Office of Planning," Tregoning said, per a planning office tweet.
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“I’d like to thank Harriet for her dedicated service to the District and its residents,” Mayor Vincent Gray said in a statement. “She has worked tirelessly to help the District grow responsibly and become a thriving, more sustainable city. In recruiting her, President Obama and Secretary Donovan have demonstrated a keen eye for talent. Although she will be missed, I look forward to working with her in her new role.”
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Tregoning, first appointed as director of D.C.'s Office of Planning in 2007 by former Mayor Adrian Fenty, has driven the District into a new era of smart growth, leading a still unfinished rewrite of the zoning regulations and pushing for an evolution of the Height Act. That work has endeared her to smart growth activists and the development community, but has angered D.C. traditionalists, especially the Committee of 100.
Gray's choice to replace Tregoning will be key to D.C. development going forward, from the zoning code rewrite to the mixed-use project planned for the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant. The mayor has offered nothing but praise for Tregoning and her pedestrian/cycling-friendly policies over the years, so it would be hard to imagine Gray taking the office in an entirely different direction.
But this appointment, even the interim director, will be closely watched.
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