Robert Laroco

Robert Laroco has been a City Planner with the City of Omaha Planning Department since 2017. He works in environmental and resilience planning in the Long-Range Division and leads a team as Project Manager for the development of the City’s Climate Action and Resiliency Plan. Prior to this he served for many years as the City’s Floodplain Manager and Planning Board Administrator. Robert began his career as a City Planner on staff in Rapid City, South Dakota, where his commitment to environmental action was reinforced over seven years of working and living in the Black Hills. Before his time in the Hills, Robert was a graduate Fellow at the University of Iowa, where he earned his Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning. Robert met his wife Laraine as an undergrad in Sioux City, Iowa. They have two daughters, Winifred and Sylvia. When not pursuing transformational environmental action, Robert is typically found escorting the girls to soccer events.