David Everett grew up in Providence and has worked for the Department of Planning and Development for the past 17 years. Focusing primarily in long-range planning and special projects, with an environmental, resiliency and water resources focus. Prior to that, he was a small-town planning director in Massachusetts and Connecticut, a speechwriter, a planning consultant and an environmental advocate, writing a citizens’ land use manual, local comprehensive plans, news articles and harbor management plans. His current responsibilities and projects include stormwater management planning, flood zone management, resilience planning, brownfields grant management and chairing the Providence Port/Community Working Group. David has a Master’s of City Planning from MIT, where he concentrated in environmental design and development. He is also a painter, primarily of landscapes in varying degrees of abstraction.
