Planning Director of Butner, NC and a trained landscape architect. Hosted / helped lead the NTBA’s legacy charrette in Butner, working to bring walkable, form-based urbanism to a town with tight watershed regulations.
People
Mike Ciriello — Planning Director, Town of Butner, NC
Notable Work
Butner, NC — comprehensive plan and downtown/Main Street redevelopment vision (butner2040.com)
NTBA Legacy Charrette in Butner, NC
Current Work
Approach & Signature Ideas
Butner as a rare “blank slate” for greenfield-scale new urbanism
Form-based rules over land-use zoning; vertical, narrow buildings
Public stormwater as a shared amenity (e.g., planted medians) to unlock and de-risk redevelopment
Visual literacy — teaching officials and the public through drawings, precedent images, and road trips rather than crowdsourced opinion
Critique of modern planning education for losing drawing/design skills
Roles on TND Projects
Planner / Planning Director — Butner, NC
Links & Resources
Source: Townbuilders podcast, ep. 209 (host Levi Wintz) — in Resources
Notes
Profile drawn only from the Townbuilders interview (ep. 209).