It is with a sad and heavy heart to announce the passing of Rod Garrett, Black Rock City's City Planner. Rod's duties included city planning and design, design of official structures, as well as production of illustrations and other graphics.
Rod first attended the event in ’95. He says he didn’t realize then that he'd go back to Burning Man again and again, much less end up designing a city for it.
"It started early in 1997, Burning Man had run smack into the stony face of bureaucracy. They had been holding their ever growing event on Federal land without issue, but this year they decided to use a site on private property, and County agencies had jurisdiction. The “book” was thrown, and I was asked to help, and so the odyssey began for me," said Garrett.
All we know about the situation at this time is from tweets by the Burning Man Earth Team including Ortelius who wrote "saddened by the passing of Rod Garrett :(" and by Nym who wrote "R.I.P. Rod Garrett, you were truly an inspirational figure. #burningman".
More updates as information becomes available.
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