Hannah Ratzlaff, Little Rock, AR

Planning Manager, City of Little Rock, AR

Hannah Ratzlaff is the Planning Manager for the City of Little Rock, where she oversees the development and implementation of long-range plans, land use policies, code revisions, and the management of the City’s historic preservation program. In her previous role as the Urban Designer for the City of Little Rock she served as the City’s Preservation Officer and staff liaison to the Historic District Commission. In this role she secured over $500,000 in state and federal grants for local preservation projects, including the comprehensive update of the MacArthur Park Historic District Design Guidelines. Before that, she served as Program Manager and Architectural Designer at Main Street Arkansas under the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, where she advised over 40 communities statewide on historic rehabilitation, downtown planning, and facade improvements.

Hannah holds a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction in Urban Strategies and Design from the University of Edinburgh (UK), where she focused on the intersection of urban history, political economy, and social sustainability. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in History, magna cum laude, from John Brown University, with a minor in English Literature and additional study at the University of Oxford (UK). Her contributions to Arkansas’s historic preservation landscape have been recognized with two Preserve Arkansas Awards.