Manjeet Ranu

Manjeet Ranu is a comprehensive planning practitioner and public administrator, having practiced in six high-growth, economically significant states as a land use, transportation and environmental planner, with urban design, public policy and capital programming expertise.  Manjeet began his career in Colorado, with the benefit of the foundation laid by his education from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a dual major Bachelor of Arts degree and from the University of Colorado at Denver, having earned both a Master of Public Administration and Master of Urban and Regional Planning.  

His professional experience includes serving as an executive for four large urban transportation agencies in the Los Angeles, Salt Lake, Atlanta and San Antonio regions. He also led community development for cities in the San Diego and Dallas regions. His transit experience involved leading and administering transportation planning, capital programs, Federal Transit Administration Capital Investment Grants program projects, National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental Quality Act.  Areas of practice in land use include policy planning, master planning, development review, building safety, housing programs, preparing land use regulations, California Environmental Quality Act, and code enforcement. Manjeet’s 20 years of experience in the public sector and eight years in the private sector across different regions of the United States, along with years of community leadership, has given him keen strategic insights and creativity to advance highly complex initiatives to successful outcomes with broad support and impact.