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Ethics board fines former city planner
By JNA at 2007/10/31 - 4:00pm

That was the headline from an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article.

"Atlanta has a policy, known as the 'cooling off' period, that prohibits former city workers from bringing business before the municipality for 12 months after the person's employment with the government has ended..

City officials said he twice represented developers in subdivision applications he previously reviewed as a senior planner for Atlanta's Department of Planning and Community Development. .

He was unaware of the policy. He wrote in a letter to the city that he didn't see any conflict-of-interest because he wasn't 'in possession of any proprietary knowledge.' ".

Does your community have similar rules ?.

Probably was not a member of AICP. Do you see this as a violation of Code of Ethics Section B, Rules of Conduct #3?.

by hilldweller on Sun, 2007/10/28 - 3:11pm
The way the code is written seems to leave much up to interpretation IMO.

by Chet on Sun, 2007/10/28 - 3:28pm
My opinion, even if you are not AICP, you should live by the code of ethics. They guy deserved to be fined.

by H on Mon, 2007/10/29 - 3:49am
The article says he was "fired" after 3 years with the Dept. I wonder why. There might be a lot more to this story.

by Tide on Mon, 2007/10/29 - 1:50pm
South Carolina State Statues have a section regarding a cooling off period. It is written fairly vague (probably by the lawyers who need it to be vague). It mentions you may not present an idea counter to an idea you presented within 1 year of leaving a public position.

by mendelman on Mon, 2007/10/29 - 3:28pm
Represented someone for a plan he had reviewed when working for the City - ethics violation, fine him.

Represented someone for a plan that was in the process when he worked for the City, but he had no contact with it - no ethics violation.

Granted, this is just my opinion.

by A4J on Mon, 2007/10/29 - 4:23pm
I thought it was common knowledge that regardless of any written rules, the rule of thumb is that you "cool off" for one year.

by curbgrass on Sun, 2009/06/07 - 10:13am
I would like first to consider the particulars of the item. Criticism of the representative's motives (as natural as it comes to us to question these things at the outset) should be seen as secondary to the value of the proposal to the community at hand.

The link is bad for me, unfortunately.

by Paul Zucker on Tue, 2009/06/16 - 6:44pm
We may not have the entire story. But from what we have it is an ethics violation.

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