Chesterfield County’s director of community enhancement, Daniel Cohen, has been elected chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Virginia District Council and will begin chairing the district board on July 1, the nonprofit announced today.
The Virginia district serves more than 420 members in the Hampton Roads, Richmond and Charlottesville metro region, working to shape communities through land use decisions.
Cohen has held planning roles in Richmond, Atlanta and Orange County, California. He’s overseen Chesterfield’s community enhancement department since July 2018. After graduating from SUNY Oneonta, Cohen earned master’s degrees in sociology from New School University and urban planning from UCLA.
