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Staff outlines comprehensive‑plan growth targets, UGA expansion options; county must decide final UGA
Summary
City planners presented Oak Harbor’s proposed 20‑year growth targets and recommended urban growth area (UGA) expansions and trades to Island County to accommodate a residential deficit; no formal action was taken—commissioners asked about utilities, traffic and timing.
City principal planner Kat Kamack briefed the Oak Harbor Planning Commission on June 10 on the 2025 comprehensive‑plan update and the city’s input to Island County about redistributing countywide growth allocations. Kamack said Oak Harbor’s current target on the table is 3,735 housing units (the city’s share of the county allocation), representing roughly 67% of the overall county allocation under discussion. The city and county must agree on how much of that allocation the city will accommodate inside the city limits and how much will remain in the unincorporated UGA.
Kamack said the county calculated existing capacity in the UGA at roughly 464 housing units, producing a deficit of about 1,333 units that the county must accommodate. Using the county’s baseline of six units per acre, staff calculated that the UGA…
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