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Courtney H. Barker, AICP
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EDUCATION
Master of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University
Bachelor of Science, Anthropology, University of Florida
EXPERIENCE
Titusville, FL
2004 – Present
Executive Director, Planning & Growth Management (five years),
Planning Director (one year), Chief Planner (one year), and
Redevelopment Specialist (one year)
Project Manager, APD, Inc., Jacksonville, FL 2000 – 2004
Planner, City of Jacksonville, FL 2000 – 2000
Planning Intern, City of New Smyrna Beach, FL 1999 – 1999
Planning Evaluation Specialist, DCA, State of Florida 1998 – 1999
BACKGROUND
The City of Titusville is a waterfront community with a population of 43,852. Titusville is the
third largest City in Brevard County and is the only City in the area referred to as “North
Brevard.” The City has been closely associated with the Space Program, with NASA and Space
Florida’s Exploration Park located across the river. Boasting the “largest number of per capita
engineers in the state,” the City’s economy has been historically linked with the Space Program.
The City of Titusville is approximately 30.5 square miles in size and is a multimodal
transportation hub with five large arterial roadways bisecting the City, one regional airport, a
public marina, and the Florida East Coast Railway. The City will soon be home to an FAA
licensed spaceport at Space Coast Regional Airport, making it a quadra-modal transportation
hub, providing transportation by air, land, sea and space. The appeal of the community is
predicated on its highly skilled, scientific workforce coupled with a can-do attitude for getting
humans and cargo to space. The diversification of the community from the space industry to
space plus manufacturing, and research and development of high-technology goods and services,
has attracted many new businesses in recent years to the three industrial parks and the industrial
lands surrounding the Space Coast Regional Airport. The City also has a historic downtown
with a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), and two neighborhood revitalization target
areas that are funded largely through state and federal grant programs.
The City of Titusville is a full service City with approximately 505 employees. As the Director
of the Planning & Growth Management Department, I have had up to six division managers
reporting to me. I manage a departmental budget of approximately $3.15 million in operating
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