Fayetteville City Manager Joe Morton recently announced that Eldridge Gunn is the city’s new director of planning and zoning.

The South Carolina native has been employed with the city since August 2001 and has served as senior planner and city planner.

As city planner, he has managed the Planning and Zoning Department since July 2005. He has been responsible for all planning functions with the city including coordinating the plan reviewing process and administration of the city’s zoning, subdivision and sign regulations. He has also been responsible for coordinating the city’s Comprehensive Plan major update which will be completed this year.

He has a bachelor of science in public administration from Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. He has a number of years of professional planning experience, having served as economic development planner and long-range planning administrator for the City of Columbia, S.C. Planning Department from 1989 to 2000.