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Planning department presents 2025 priorities: SmartGov fixes, housing targets, Sharps Corner study and DNR lease work
Summary
Planning Director John Coleman briefed council on department staffing, a $197,000 grant for paperless permitting improvements, SmartGov implementation problems, housing and comp‑plan work, Sharps Corner site analysis, and DNR lease obligations at Fidalgo Bay.
John Coleman, director of planning, community and economic development, presented the department’s 2025 update to the Anacortes City Council, reviewing staffing, permits, long‑range planning and several ongoing projects.
Coleman said the building department received a $197,000 Department of Commerce grant to improve the city’s electronic permitting and review process. Part of that grant (about $7,000) will go to a vendor implementation task and the larger portion will fund a consultant review of current development review processes, digital scanning of paper permit files and implementation work to make the SmartGov permitting platform more user friendly. Coleman and other staff said SmartGov’s rollout revealed coordination problems between departments and a consultant will diagram and recommend process…
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