Montgomery County Planning Director Rollin Stanley will be leaving later this spring. Stanley announced the news to the Planning Board and the staff this afternoon, sources in the agency say.

He and his wife are moving to a new jurisdiction, but he hasn’t revealed which. Stanley said this is a career move for him and his wife, and not related to a recent tiff over comments in Bethesda Magazine.

Updates: Maryland Juice quotes Planning Board member Casey Anderson saying Stanley’s still-secret new post is “a much bigger job.” Councilmember Nancy Floreen tells the Gazette that it will be difficult to find someone as “visionary” to replace Stanley.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.