Round Rock hires planning director
Wyoming transplant Peter Wysocki was picked Tuesday to head Round Rock's planning department.
City Manager Jim Nuse said Wysocki will begin work as planning director in the north of Austin suburb Sept. 15. He's currently working as community development director for the city of Laramie, Wyo. He replaces Jim Stendebach who retires Aug. 31.
“We will dearly miss Jim Stendebach, who has been part of Round Rock’s development successes for more than two decades,” Nuse said. “I can’t imagine a person better suited than Peter Wysocki to replace Jim."
Nurse said the incoming director has worked in a fast-growing region of Wyoming for the last six years and "comes highly recommended by those in the communities where he served.” During his tenure, he successfully facilitated a new master plan, a new unified development code, groundwater protection plan and completely revamped the development review process.
Prior to his current position, he was community development director for the city of Fernley, Nev personal loans for bad credit. from 2001 to 2006. He also worked six years as a planner with the Douglas County, Nev. community development department.
“My family and I are very excited about moving here and becoming members this great community," Wysocki said.
He earned a bachelor’s in urban and regional planning from California Polytechnic University and a certificate of professional development in public management from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a certified planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners, member of the American Planning Association, a member of the Western Planning Resources and served as the president of the Northern Section of the Nevada Chapter of the American Planning Association.