In July 2022, Dan Emerine rejoined the DC Office of Planning as Associate Director for Citywide Planning. In this role, he provides strategic direction to OP’s systems planning efforts, including analyzing data and formulating recommendations for various sectors, including housing, economic development, capital facilities, infrastructure, transportation, and sustainability. Prior to July 2022, Dan led DDOT’s Policy and Legislative Affairs Division. In this capacity, he managed the development and analysis of transportation policy at the local, regional, and federal levels and the legislative and government affairs strategy for the District’s transportation agenda. Mr. Emerine’s policy work on behalf of DDOT included advancing the agency’s exploration of roadway pricing mechanisms to manage congestion and improve transportation equity, studying and planning for the impacts of automated driving systems, and pilot-testing groundbreaking new regulatory regimes for the governance of shared micro-mobility services. Prior to joining DDOT in 2017, Dan served for nearly a decade with the D.C. Office of Planning —first as a leader of the six-year effort to update D.C.’s 50-year-old zoning code, and later as the agency’s senior transportation planner. Dan has also worked with the International City/County Management Association, helping local governments and researching best practices in planning and zoning, and as a research assistant and organizer with the Coalition for Smarter Growth, a network of sustainable transportation and land-use reform advocates working to build a more sustainable and equitable region in the Washington metropolitan area. Dan holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Denison University and a master’s in public management from the Maryland School of Public Policy. He is a Certified Public Manager, a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and a graduate of the Urban Land Institute’s prestigious Regional Land Use Leadership Institute.