Jennifer Q. Henninger has over 20 years of broad-based community planning and development experience in both the private and public sectors with her most recent experience being the Community Development Director for the City of Littleton. While at Littleton she helped lead the efforts to adopt and implement a new city Comprehensive Plan with a Master Transportation Plan followed by a brand-new character based zoning code.

Jennifer began her career in the City of Lakewood, followed by Army base planning in Germany, a 7- year hiatus to be a stay-at-home mom, and then 10 years on the private side serving as a consultant planner for several small communities providing expertise in the areas of grant writing and administration, economic development, community engagement, and development review. She also led efforts for writing and updating Comprehensive Plans for the towns of Kersey, Sheridan, Kremmling, and Rio Grande County.

Jennifer was born and raised primarily on the east coast, earning her Bachelor of Science in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University in upstate New York, but she got out to Colorado as soon as she could, first right after college to obtain her Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Colorado and then moving around the world with her Army husband for 10 years before getting back to Colorado in 2004. She volunteers for a number of different organizations including the Littleton Public Schools Foundation, Cornell University, Downtown Colorado Inc, and the Huntington’s Disease Society of America.

Town of Littleton, Colorado
Planning
Code Enforcement
Building Division
Staff Liaison
Large Scale Development Projects
Presented to City Council and Other Boards
Code Compliance Team
International Building Code
Comprehensive Plan
Land Use Code Updates
Process Improvement Strategy

City of Sheridan, Colorado
Development Review
Board Presentations
Grant Writing
Community Development Director
Rep for South Platte Working Group

Rio Grande County, Colorado
County Master Plan

Town of Hayden, Colorado
Development Review
Contracted Planner

Town of Grand Lake, CO
Development Review
Contracted Planner

Town of Buena Vista, CO
Development Review
Contracted Planner

City of Black Hawk, CO
Update Design Guidelines
Grant Applications

Town of Elizabeth, CO
Development Review

City of Lakewood, CO
Contracted Planner
Neighborhood Planning Program
Manual for Engineering & Development Review Process

Community Engagement
Grant Writing
Development Review
Elasticity
Master, Strategic and Comprehensive Plans
Code Writing
Personal Size Manipulation
Educator
Conflict Resolution
Youth Engagement

Masters in Public Administration (MPA)
University of Colorado at Denver

B.S., City and Regional Planning
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York