Director, Land Use
Rob Hosack, AICP, is Director of Land Use and heads up our zoning modification and hearing team. He began his career as a Community Planner for the State of Tennessee. He served in Cobb County Government for more than 30 years as a Senior Planner, Coordinator for Intergovernmental Relations, Planning Division Manager, and Director of the Community Development Agency, a position he held for 15 years. In his role with the Community Development Agency, Mr. Hosack prepared and implemented Cobb County’s first comprehensive development standards document, applied administrative variances to support environmental compliance programs, oversaw the one-stop development review process, generated the region’s first inventory of redevelopment sites and assembled the county’s Redevelopment Overlay District. He earned unparalleled experience as the lead county representative in the creation of the Town Center Community Improvement District and through his work, in partnership with the Atlanta Braves, on the development of Truist Park and The Battery. During a brief retirement from Cobb County, Mr. Hosack assisted governmental and private sector clients in his role at a management and development consulting business. On April 25, 2017, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners appointed Mr. Hosack as the Cobb County Manager. During his tenure as Cobb County Manager, Mr. Hosack implemented a new 5-year Strategic Budgeting Process for Cobb County, enhanced the county’s AAA credit rating, oversaw a $750 million SPLOST program and implemented an overhaul of the county’s economic development incentives process leading to the relocation of the $200 million North American Headquarters of Thyssenkrup in partnership with the State of Georgia Department of Economic Development. He is a Nationally Certified Planner through the American Institute of Certified Planners and a Certified Public Manager through the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia.
