Stanley to Lead Calgary Planning Department
Montgomery County Planning Director Rollin Stanley will leave his post next month for a position in Calgary, Alberta.
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When Montgomery County Planning Director Rollin Stanley leaves his position next month, he'll head north to Calgary, Alberta, where he will head the city's planning, development and assessment department.
Calgary—which, at one million residents, is Canada's third-largest city—recruited Stanley last winter after interviewing him several years ago for another position and after an international search, according to a Montgomery County Planning Department news release.
"Stanley did not seek out the position, he said, but considered the offer too good to refuse because it provides the challenge of managing Calgary’s tremendous growth as well as professional opportunities for his wife, also a planner," read the statement.
Stanley, who has directed the 140-member county planning department for the last four years, announced his resignation last week. In Calgary, he will head a department of 800 employees, according to the news release.
“We’re sorry to lose him,” Montgomery County Planning Board Chairperson Françoise Carrier said in the statement. “He motivated all of us with his ideas and energy, and he helped set a great course for the county. Our focus now is to keep up the momentum to implement the county’s vision for its future.”
Planning Board Commissioner Casey Anderson also expressed disappointment about Stanley's move.
“I would have loved to see him spend the rest of his career in Montgomery County, but I certainly understand why the Calgary opportunity is so attractive,” he said in the statement. “It’s a huge undertaking, and they are lucky to have someone with Rollin’s energy and creativity to take it on.”
Carrier is aiming to hire a new planning director by year's end, and an announcement regarding interim management is expected within the next few weeks, according to the statement.
Stanley is known nationally for his "smart growth" approach to planning, about which he has written on his director's blog. But Stanley has also come under fire for controversial statements he used to describe his detractors, Patch reported.
In an interview with Bethesda Magazine, Stanley called some of his detractors "rich, white women" who spread fear about his initiatives. A group of activists asked him to publicly apologize, Patch reported.
Stanley later retracted his remarks.
Mike
8:07 am on Wednesday, April 25, 2012
looks like there is life after Montgomery County for Stanley after all. I hope there is less of a privileged, entitled class in Calgary. Seems like all the people sowing discord are awfully quiet now
B Allen
9:04 am on Saturday, April 28, 2012
bottom line, who cares. more money, more responsibility. nothing wrong with that. maybe he sees the writing on the wall that MoCo is a worthless place to live, with the idiots running it, you know guys like leggett, berliner, leventhat, and all the other idiots on the council. High taxes and going to get higher, tax dollars illegally spent on illegal immigrants, all the handouts to those who don't deserve it, bad business practices by those people on the left, higher fees, imposed fees for services that we already pay for in our taxes, services taken away, big government practices and spending...I hope you people on the left will stop just seeing what you believe and start following the money trails...you will be surprised how much is wasted by these people.
B Allen
9:55 am on Saturday, April 28, 2012
No Frank, what needs to be done is to get rid of the idiots like yourself who think you are above everyone else. MoCo used to be a good place to live, but the scumsucking idiots running this county and people like yourself that continue to vote them in, makes it a place to "be from"...I DO intend to leave this REgressive area but not before I kick people like you out first. No Outrage, just telling the truth as it is(AND I KNOW HOW YOU PEOPLE DON'T LIKE HEARING THE TRUTH), not how you people see things as to what you you believe. Here is 2 things for you people to remember "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery"-Winston Churchill
On your ego trip thing, Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
I certainly do not feel sorry for the likes of you with your measely, sorry life.
B Allen
8:41 am on Sunday, April 29, 2012
@Frank You can't even read and comprehend. Typical left wing knucklehead who tries to spin words around when the truth is told and you people continue to remove all doubt that you are fools and you are foolish. I am SOOOOOO glad that I got out of the dumbocrap party after 30+ years because i would really hate to be associated with idiots like yourself. Quit acting like a typical spoiled little 2 year old and face the FACTS and the TRUTH. If you look at the AGENDA 21 action plan that MoCO nitwits adopted, you will understand what they are trying to do...but then again, I doubt if someone with your limited capacity to comprehend, that you would even be able to read it and figure it out. Maybe this guy did not like that way of thinking and that is why he got out...who cares anyway because if you can make more money, instead of having a measly little life and low self esteem like most dems, then go for it and tell MoCo politicians to kiss off. BTW, why don't you just kiss off. I an not going to answer any of you childish tantrums any longer.
B Allen
9:07 pm on Sunday, April 29, 2012
@Frank...too bad you and people like you cannot handle the truth. No Rage, just telling the facts and how it is. Not how you people only seeing what you believe. You are just mad now because I showed that you are ignorant and cannot read and comprehend, you just spew crapola that you pick up from PBS. Maybe YOU need to take your anti psycosis meds to being you back to reality...I am not going to waste good positive energy on you anymore, you don't get it and you NEVER will, you are a fool and you will always be a fool.