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Poulsbo closes multi-session housing workshop with staff direction to draft implementation plan and a mayoral Blue Ribbon Commission

Poulsbo City Council · March 4, 2026
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Summary

After its fourth housing-affordability workshop, Poulsbo staff will draft a housing implementation plan and the mayor announced a Blue Ribbon Commission focused on public–private partnership workforce housing; council signaled interest in local housing funds, targeted fee deferrals for workforce housing and further study of land-banking and UGA swaps.

Poulsbo — The Poulsbo City Council completed the fourth and final installment of a housing-affordability workshop series on March 4, with staff given direction to advance program profiles into a housing implementation plan and the mayor announcing a Blue Ribbon Commission to pursue public–private workforce-housing partnerships.

City planner Heather Wright reviewed the multi-session process — moving from baseline data to alignment and policy direction — and presented structured program profiles for council feedback. Wright reiterated the council’s earlier comprehensive-plan work and framed the workshop as an implementation step: "We chose to…

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