Harriet Tregoning

Harriet Tregoning is the Director of the Washington, D.C. Office of Planning, where she works to make D.C. a walkable, bikeable, eminently livable, globally competitive, and sustainable city. Her priorities include creating and implementing a plan to make DC the most sustainable city in the US, re-writing the city’s zoning code for the first time in 50 years, planning the revitalization of the poorest part of the District as part of the consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security’s Headquarters at the National Historic Landmark St. Elizabeth’s Hospital campus, and collaborating with her transportation colleagues to bring ever more transportation choices to DC, including the nation’s largest bike-sharing program to DC, now serving the region with more than 1,670 bicycles operating from more than 190 stations. Prior to this she was the director of the Governors’ Institute on Community Design and co-founder, with former Maryland Governor Glendening, and executive director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute. She served Governor Glendening as both Secretary of Planning and then as the nation's first state-level Cabinet Secretary for Smart Growth. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for 2003-2004.

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