Mary Roberts

Biography: Mary Roberts Director of Community Development City of Littleton, CO Mary Roberts has 25 years of experience in land use, transportation, housing and economic development. Her background spans the public, private and non-profit sectors. She has worked for large cities (Denver, Colorado), small towns (Aspen, Colorado) and regional agencies (San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District [BART]). She is currently serving as the Director of Community Development for the City of Littleton, Colorado. A mid-sized suburb of Denver, Littleton is home to 47,000 people. It is situated between two major highway corridors and is the end of line for the area's first light rail, which has been operational since 2000. Ms Roberts oversees building, zoning, current and long range planning, historic preservation and neighborhood services. Accomplishments during her tenure with the city include a downtown historic district, the completion of design guidelines for the downtown and redeveloping commercial corridors, and initiating a process to update to the city's 30-year old comprehensive plan. She coordinates extensively with economic development public works, traffic and engineering departments, as well as outside agencies, elected and appointed officials and citizen groups. She has been with the city since October 2002. Upon arriving at the city, she undertook a departmental assessment to ascertain how best to allocate the limited staff resources of the department to meet desired service levels and identified customer needs. This assessment has been the basis for restructuring of positions to better achieve city council goals. As the Executive Director of the Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority, Ms Roberts managed an inter-governmental agency charged with developing, managing and setting policy for affordable housing. She led the authority through an expansion of its development program, bringing over two hundred new affordable units i