Southern Tier Section Director: Greg Hutnik, planner@danby.ny.gov
About Greg: Greg Hutnik has a decade of experience in municipal leadership, current and long-range land use planning, watershed planning, environmental planning and consulting, grant writing and administration, and more recently managing a town's planning department. As the planner for the town of Danby, a municipality just outside of the city of Ithaca, Greg is involved in planning efforts related to housing, hamlet revitalization, economic development, environmental conservation, and recreation. Greg also serves on the town of Enfield's planning board and as its deputy supervisor.
Chapter President-Elect Sarah Gatti and others have been elected to lead the APA New York Upstate Chapter in 2027-2028 in the recent consolidated election with the American Planning Association. New officers start the new term on January 1, 2027 for two years. The full election results are available here.