Boise Planning and Development Services Director Bruce Chatterton has taken a new job with the City of Meridian.

Chatterton will head Meridian’s new community development department, which is made up of the building, planning and housing departments.

He starts the new position March 12.

“I am looking for a new set of challenges in my career,” said Chatterton, who has helmed Boise’s planning department for seven years.

“I have accomplished many of the goals Mayor Bieter set out for me originally,” including streamlining the permitting process and revamping Boise’s comprehensive plan, Chatterton said.

“Meridian has some great opportunities and some great challenges that are similar to what I have done previously in my career,” he said.

Former Meridian Planning Director Anna Canning left her post in June to join Idaho Power as it lands and right-of-way manager.