The Department of Planning and Development plays a vital role in the preservation of the City’s unique assets while shaping its future development through a comprehensive policy of JEDI (justice, environment diversity and inclusion) principles. As steward of the City’s Master Plan, its policies and recommendations, including the enforcement of land use ordinances, the department is complemented by various purpose specific entities, including the Planning Board, Zoning Board, Green Team, Historic Preservation Commission and the Shade Tree Committee. Collectively, they engage and encourage stakeholder empowerment to advance redevelopment, environmental stewardship, economic and community development. The department also includes the Office of Job Readiness and the US HUD, Community Development Block Grant Program, with its comprehensive program initiatives to further engage and create sustainable opportunities in Atlantic City’s culturally and economically diverse neighborhoods and communities.

Assistant Director of Redevelopment Jacques A. Howard

- Born in New York City, graduated from Columbia College, BA in Urban Anthropology with a minor in Public Health.

- Attended Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Applied Social Sciences. Received Law Students Civil Rights Research Council scholarship to perform migrant legal services. Received Cleveland Federation for Community Planning Award.

- Awarded US HUD Fellowship to study urban planning.  Obtained Master Degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College, Graduate School of Planning.

- Married, with two girls and three granddaughters

- Worked at various government planning and economic development management positions in New York City, Plainfield, New Jersey and  Fayetteville, NC,

- Fluent in Spanish and communicable in other romantic languages.

Department Employees