Terri Rahhal

Terri recently completed a 37-year career in the public sector, practicing a wide range of urban and regional planning and community development services in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, as well as the cities of San Bernardino and Corona. In 2022 she retired from San Bernardino County as Land Use Services Director, where she managed building, planning, land development engineering, code enforcement and fire hazard abatement services for the unincorporated areas of this 20,000-square mile county. During her tenure with San Bernardino County, she led the development and adoption of a comprehensive Countywide Plan and 27 Community Action Guides for unincorporated communities. She also oversaw implementation of the County’s first fully digital planning and building permit system.

Terri holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and an MBA with a Finance concentration from Cal State San Bernardino. As a long-time member of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners, Terri considers herself primarily a planner. She is passionate about building value through community development and enabling public employees to work toward that end. She believes that training, coaching and sharing of authority are the keys to shaking off the bureaucratic stereotypes that plague the public sector.