Former NSW Government Architect Chris Johnson named CEO of Urban Taskforce
Former NSW Government Architect Chris Johnson will take over as chief executive of the Urban Taskforce.
Johnson served as the NSW Government Architect for 10 years and subsequently became executive director in the NSW Department of Planning.
He was a former member of the Central Sydney Planning Committee.
“Chris has first-hand experience with the zoning and approval issues that our community needs to address,” Urban Taskforce secretary/treasurer David Tanevski says.
Johnson has written or edited 14 books on urban planning and architecture and for the last three years has run his own consultancy working for many private sector clients.
"I am keen to change the simplistic debate on density, from being either for or against, to an understanding that there are a range of at least a dozen types of density and each has a place in the city of the future,” Johnson says.
He succeeds Aaron Gadiel, who after four years is off to the legal firm Gadens.
The Urban Taskforce is a property development industry group representing Australia’s most prominent property developers and equity financiers.
