Vaidila Satvika
City of Asheville Planning Dept
Expert panelist for AVLmeetup's "The Missing Middle - Affordable Housing in Asheville." (August 6th, 2024)
Vaidila Satvika holds a Master's degree in Urban Planning from New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and has worked professionally in the field since 2005. He has been employed with the City of Asheville since 2015 and oversaw updates to residential zoning in 2017, the development of the Urban Centers Initiative, and is currently managing the Missing Middle Housing Initiative and the Downtown Patton Avenue Corridor & Feasibility Study. Vaidila is well versed in both land use and transportation planning and can speak to the important interrelation of the topics. Vaidila will focus his discussion on the shifting landscape and possible future changes to residential zoning that are coming to Asheville. (He tells people that his name rhymes with Gorilla or Godzilla: Veye-DIL-uh.)