Saturday, February 1, 2014

New Calaveras County Planning Director

 
The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Maurer as the new Director of Planning effective March 3, 2014.


     Peter comes to Calaveras County with thirty (30) years of rural county planning experience after earning a baccalaureate degree in geography, with a special emphasis on rural and regional planning from CSU, Chico.

   He has worked for the past 28 years in El Dorado County in a variety of capacities, most recently supervising the current planning function of development project review.

   Peter twice served as Acting Planning Director, was in charge of the County's General Plan update adopted in 2004, and has coordinated with Federal and State agencies on natural resource issues.

   He presently chairs the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Advisory Planning Commission.

   Peter will be relocating to Murphys where he has family and friends. He has three children; a grown son; another attending college in Wisconsin and a daughter in high school.

   In his free time he enjoys running, hiking and mountain climbing.  He plans to continue volunteering in community events and is looking forward to working with the county, the Board, and other department heads on the challenges facing the County.

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