Planning director requests six positions, flags space crisis and modular option
Planning Director Leon Hughes asked the board to fund up to six planning positions (or five if a full‑time environmental inspector is hired), warned that reviewers are overloaded and proposed a modular/trailer space solution (~$1.3M) as an interim fix.
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Leon Hughes, Director of Planning & Community Development, told the board that the department is critically understaffed for current development review workloads and code enforcement across 544 square miles. Hughes cited Amazon site plans exceeding 1,000 pages and said the department currently has one plan reviewer handling large files, with staff working late hours to keep pace.
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