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Oak Harbor principal planner outlines 2025 comprehensive plan update: 5,500 housing units, longer EIS timeline
Summary
City principal planner presented the scope and schedule for Oak Harbor’s 2025 comprehensive plan update, explaining state population projection rules, a county allocation that requires the city to plan for 5,500 additional housing units, and the likelihood of a city-level Environmental Impact Statement that will push adoption into 2026.
Kat Kamak, principal planner for the City of Oak Harbor, briefed the Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission on Aug. 11 about the city’s comprehensive plan update and how it ties to parks and recreation planning.
Kamak said the state’s Office of Financial Management provides population-projection ranges (low, medium, high) and that the countywide planning policies typically steer jurisdictions to the medium projection. For the current cycle, that distribution means Oak Harbor must plan for about 5,500 additional housing units across the city and its urban growth area over the next 20 years.
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