Karina Andrew reports from the Oak Harbor City Council meeting on Apr. 5.
The city of Oak Harbor will seek county grant funds to build an access road to planned future park Harbor Heights at Northeast 16th Avenue and Heller Road.
Council members approved the application for about $2.3 million from the county’s Rural County Economic Development Infrastructure Investment Program in a 5-2 vote April 5, with council members Shane Hoffmire and Bryan Stucky providing the opposing votes.
They Said It
Councilmember Shane Hoffmire said in a previous council workshop that he would not support the Harbor Heights project going forward at all unless the access road is at Northwest Elwha Street, a location he said would better protect park-goers from traffic. “How we ever got moved off of Elwha is baffling to me,” he said in the March 23 workshop.
