Richard Sucre, San Francisco, CA

Deputy Director of Current Planning Division, City of San Francisco, CA

Richard Sucre is the Deputy Director of Current Planning Division for the San Francisco Planning Department and serves as the lead for historic preservation team, which has a staff of approximately 22 preservation planners. Rich has a background in architecture and architectural history having received an architectural degree from the University of Michigan and his Masters in Architectural History from the University of Virginia. Between 2003 and 2010, Rich worked as an architectural historian with a historic preservation architecture and planning firm. Mr. Sucré served as project manager and lead historian on numerous projects in California and the Western U.S., including the San Francisco Mission and SOMA Area Plan Historic Resource Surveys, the NASA Ames Research Center Space Shuttle Assessment, and the Historic Structure Report for Lookout Studio in the Grand Canyon. His resume includes work on several historic context statements for the City of Arroyo Grande, City of San Francisco (Market & Octavia, Mission, and SoMA Area Plans), and City of Fresno. Since 2010, Rich has worked for the San Francisco Planning Department and has had several roles including Preservation Technical Specialist/Senior Planner and recently as a Principal Planner for the Southeast Quadrant. His past work at SF Planning has included numerous historic preservation projects, but also planning entitlements and long-range planning efforts at Pier 70 and within the Mission neighborhood. Recently, Rich has lead process improvement in permitting and also manages the Planning Information Counter and Intake teams.