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Alyson Craig, AICP (she/her/hers)

Planning Director
City of Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina

ALYSON H. CRAIG, AICP
PLANNING DIRECTOR
CITY OF CHARLOTTE

Alyson Craig serves as the Planning Director for the City of Charlotte, overseeing initiatives that includes Charlotte 2040 Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance implementation, regional transportation Planning, long range planning, land development permitting, tree canopy plans and policies, historic districts, urban design, annexations and the rezoning process. She also provides oversight to the CLT Development Center, a 7 department collaborative approach to land development permitting.

Prior to joining the City, Alyson worked at UNC Charlotte as the Director of the Master of Science in Real Estate program. Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte, Alyson worked for Grubb Properties’ Investment team managing office, multi-family, and mixed-use development and acquisition projects. Before moving to Charlotte, she was Vice President of a planning and engineering firm in Florida working with clients on development agreements, entitlements, rezonings, and annexations for large multi-use land development projects.

Alyson has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Science in Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Science in Real Estate from University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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