Meet New York City's New Chief Planning Commissioner

Meet Amanda Burden -- the new head of New York's city planning commission. She's the new breed of Bloomberg public servant.

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May 9, 2002, 9:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"The City Planning Commission -- the agency charged with charting the city's growth -- hasn't exactly been an engine for innovation over the past couple of decades. But observers say that some of the fossils over at the Department of City Planning (Burden actually wears two hats, as chair of the commission and director of the Department of City Planning) have a renewed spring in their step and are wearing more adventurous bow ties since the new administration took office. Part of it may be that Mayor Bloomberg has shown an interest in building and design worthy of a billionaire with many homes who knows how nice things can be when you do them right."

Thanks to Econ-Dev List

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