Danny Pleasant

Biography: Danny Pleasant, AICP | Assistant City Manager, City of Charlotte Danny is known for innovative transportation, planning and investment strategies aimed at building safe, healthy and economically vibrant communities. His passion is building multi-modal transportation systems to support quality urban growth, integrated land development, and walkable urban design. Danny's role as Assistant City Manager has focused on public safety, transportation, housing, neighborhood services, capital investment, land development, and major events. Danny served for nine years as Director of the Charlotte Department of Transportation, which plans, designs, builds, operates and maintains all aspects of the city’s transportation network. The department also provides staffing for the three county metropolitan planning organization and the twelve county air quality planning region. Danny joined the City of Charlotte in 2002 as Deputy Transportation Director. Before coming to Charlotte, he served as Transportation Planning Bureau Chief for the City of Orlando (FL). He also served as a transportation planner in Atlanta, Georgia and Chapel Hill and Fayetteville, North Carolina. He received a Master of Urban Planning degree from Texas A&M University’s College of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science degree from NC State University’ College of Natural Resources. As a graduate student at Texas A&M, Danny worked as a research associate with the Texas Transportation Institute. Danny served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of City Transportation Officials. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the Urban Land Institute, and the Congress for the New Urbanism. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. He often serves on expert teams crafting solutions to transportation, urban design, and development issues at the national, regional, and local levels.