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Oak Harbor community development director outlines 2026 work program, comp‑plan timeline and staffing shortfall
Summary
Community development director Stacy Prechner told the Planning Commission on April 14 that the department faces a roughly 50% staffing reduction while moving forward on a comprehensive‑plan update, an EIS schedule and code changes for missing‑middle housing and building‑code alignment.
Stacy Prechner, Oak Harbor’s community development director, told the Planning Commission on April 14 that the department is operating at about a 50% reduction in staff and outlined the department’s 2026 work program, including steps on the comprehensive plan, an environmental‑impact‑statement schedule and several code updates.
Prechner said the city is making progress recruiting a code‑enforcement officer and an administrative assistant but that the permit‑coordinator position will remain vacant for some time. “We are in triage mode,” she said, and staff are “divvying up the job duties accordingly” across planners and the building official to keep permit processing moving.
Why it matters: the comp‑plan and the related EIS will frame future land‑use and zoning maps, and Prechner said code updates to Titles 17, 18 and 19 will be needed…
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