City hires new planning and community development director
Published 4:07 pm Wednesday, July 17, 2013
The City of Auburn has hired the former director of Community Development for the City of Wauwatosa, Wis. to direct its Department of Planning and Community Development.
Nancy Welch worked for the City of Wauwatosa for 10 years, leading it through the development of a new comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance. Welch also directed the creation of the UW-Milwaukee Innovation Park, the restoration of that city’s historic Little Red Store and the development of the GE Health care Clinical Systems headquarters.
In addition, Welch obtained a $600,000 Brownfield grant and a $5.4 million grant for a business accelerator from the federal Economic Development Administration.
Auburn’s director of Human Resources, Brenda Heineman, said Welch begins her duties in August.
Welch earned her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College in La Crosse, Wis. and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Welch has also worked for the cities of of West Allis, Wis and Des Moines, Iowa.
She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is certified as a Housing Development Finance Professional from the National Development Council.
Welch is married with two children, an adult son and a daughter in high school. She has two rescued cats and one rescued dog.
Auburn’s former planning and community development director, Kevin Snyder, left in February after four years to accept the top planning job in Sedona Arizona.
