City of Guelph general manager of planning and building services and chief planner Todd Salter will be retiring in May.
“It’s been rewarding for me, professionally and personally, to have contributed to all the great city-building that’s been accomplished over the past nine years,” said Salter in a news release.
“I’ve been proud of Guelph’s continued leadership in developing leading-edge, sustainable community planning, including a progressive natural heritage strategy and a much-needed affordable housing strategy.”
During Salter’s time leading the city’s planning and building teams, the city won awards for its Natural Heritage Strategy and its secondary plans for Downtown Guelph and the Guelph Innovation District.
Salter also oversaw the creation of Guelph’s first heritage conservation district, urban design manual, natural heritage action plan, affordable housing strategy and its supporting financial incentives plan.
Salter worked for the Town of Caledon for 22 years prior to moving to Guelph before he led the City of Guelph’s planning and building services division for eight years.
He joined the City of Guelph as a manager of policy planning and urban design in 2011 and became a general manager a year later.
With Salter’s retirement announced, the city will immediately begin recruiting a general manager of planning and building services.
“Announcing Todd’s retirement comes with mixed emotions,” said Kealy Dedman, deputy CAO for infrastructure at the City of Guelph in a press release.
“Todd has provided such excellent leadership—not only with respect to the well-planned growth of our city but as a source of steady, reliable counsel to me and many of his other colleagues, both inside and outside of our organization.”
