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Dan Howe

Board Member - Ex Offico

Daniel Howe, FASLA, AICP manages a consulting firm in Raleigh, NC, Perry Street Studio, LLC, specializing in facilitating solutions for the physical design of public space. He also serves as Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Landscape Architecture program at NC State University, where he offers a course entitled Community Design: Landscape Architecture, City Planning and the Public Realm. Dan has extensive experience in city planning and municipal government, having served as Assistant City Manager for the City of Raleigh among a variety of other planning-related roles. Dan was recently part of a design team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates to develop a master plan for the Dorothea Dix Park in central Raleigh.

Dan began his involvement with Hillsborough Street as a graduate research assistant working with the University Neighborhood Planning Council in 1985. In his role as planner for the City of Raleigh he designed the Pedestrian Business Overlay Zoning District standards, first applied on Hillsborough Street, that received an Outstanding Planning Award from the NC Chapter of the American Planning Association.

Dan holds a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from NCSU and a Bachelor of City Planning Degree from the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He was elected to the American Society of Landscape Architects College of Fellows in 2014, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, as well as on Raleigh’s Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Commission and the Wake County Citizens Energy Commission.