Roxyanne Burrus

Roxyanne C. Burrus celebrates 10 years as an instructor at the Ohio State University. She currently teaches City and Regional Planning principles and practices to undergraduate students earning their bachelor’s degrees at OSU. Ms Burrus also owns a consulting business, Cartier Burrus LLC, and a newly formed travel business. A graduate of UCLA with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Ms Burrus also earned a Master’s Degree in City and Regional Planning from The Ohio State University. She has a 30 year career in government and most notably held executive level positions as a Neighborhood Department Administrator and Regional Planning Director for Seneca County, Ohio. Through-out her 30 year career with city and county government she skillfully managed long range community and neighborhood planning, review of zoning and variance applications and subdivision regulations, administered Historic Preservation, Code Enforcement, Neighborhood Planning, Community Revitalization, Affordable Housing and Non-profit grant administration . She created neighborhood scale community reinvestment and redevelopment implementation plans and worked on major undertakings inclusive of a major Comprehensive Plan, Downtown Strategic Plan, Zoning Code Revision , and Affordable Housing Consolidated Plan Programs for a very large municipality. As an Instructor at The Ohio State University Ms. Burrus has taught a variety of courses including Public Sector grant writing, Land Development, Housing in America, Professional Development and Studio class instruction which is now her primary focus. Over the years her studio class students have completed Downtown Strategic plans, a County Economic Development Plan , Comprehensive Plans for Villages and neighborhoods , a Zoning Update Plan and Implementation Strategies for Age Friendly living. Ms Burrus has also created, directed and administered neighborhood focused services and programs, She created and staffed five neighborhood satellite offices that concentrated on providing critical city services to the neighborhoods. Services included police, fire, code enforcement, health, economic development, land development, planning and housing and advocates for the communities. In addition to assisting communities with redevelopment and revitalization activities, affordable housing construction and rehab, code enforcement and historic preservation, and economic development activity fostering business attraction, retention and expansion in distressed communities, she focused much of her attention on activity to reduce and ultimately eliminate vacant and abandoned eyesore properties in the city. She successfully created and managed neighborhood programs that received national acknowledgement and is a recipient of numerous accolades and awards for her significant accomplishments and volunteer work. Ms. Burrus is on the Franklin County Planning Commission, a Knowlton School Alumni Board member and has a long history of non-profit board membership, volunteerism with Franklin County and her local community in Reynoldsburg , Ohio. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc. where she currently holds a National Office, and a life-long member of St Paul AME Church. She is proud mother to a son and daughter, both married, and has four beautiful grand -children.