Ethan Walker

• Administer the City’s Housing Action Plan to achieve community housing goals.
• Build relationships with non-profit, public, and private community partners
• · Plan, organize, coordinate, and implement the work plan and policies related to the City’s housing policies, projects, and programs. Evaluate and recommend housing policies and procedures.
• · Help regulate STR applications, funds, and inventory.

permitting affordable housing projects, workforce housing projects, single-family residences, duplexes, multi-family units, and additional dwelling units (ADUs).

· Help regulate STR applications, funds, and inventory.

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· Manage databases, including data entry, evaluation, and reporting of all federal housing community development contracts and active STRs.

· Analyze, plan, and facilitate the city permit and development review processing activities related to housing projects.

· Develop recommendations and prepare reports regarding complex housing issues related to zoning, urban design, population trends, transportation, climate change, community needs, environmental issues, and other local regulations or policies.

· Analyze proposed code changes, code updates, Comprehensive Plan amendments for the Shoreline Master Program, Zoning Code, Subdivision Ordinance, Critical Area Codes, processing and procedural codes, and any other required or optional code changes and the impact they may have on housing development to ensure that proposed modifications align with the City’s goal to increase housing units for the citizens.

· Prepares reports, meeting agendas, packets, minutes, and presentations to work closely with the Planning Commission, City Councilmembers, and critical community groups for all proposed changes that could affect housing and any other housing-related concerns or actions.

· Analyze, plan, and coordinate long-range planning activities related to housing projects.

· Work closely with other departments to develop joint procedures and solve administrative problems.

· Coordinates planning, housing, and other Community and Economic Development activities with other City Departments, surrounding local jurisdictions, state and federal agencies, and the general public to align the Olympic Peninsula goals to work together on community-wide planning and housing projects.

· Monitor contracts with other governmental agencies and community-based organizations as they relate to the City’s housing programs; formulate improvements and implement changes within the program; consult with the Department Head and other management staff on work programs, schedules, policies, and housing program development; represent the program at meetings.

· Research grant funding opportunities, assist with grant writing proposals to improve the City’s affordable housing resources, and implement grants as assigned.

· Develop compliance procedures for local housing projects/funds.

· Update and maintain department websites, social media, printed materials, and other outreach tools.

· Currently redeveloping strategic housing resource plans, including the Annual Action Plan, Comprehensive Housing Plan, and HUD Consolidated Plan.

Associate Level Key Tasks:

· Review, analyze, and approve all subdivisions creating affordable housing solutions or increasing the number of housing units in the City and including but not limited to Boundary Line Adjustments, Short Subdivisions, Long Subdivisions, Planned Residential Developments, and other related divisions of land.

· Review, analyze, and advise City leaders on Short Term Rentals (STR) and the implications on housing availability. Assist with creating regulations for STR proposals. Help develop code compliance procedures to ensure that STR owners follow the rules.

· Administer consultant contracts related to housing needs, including preparing Request for Proposal and Scope of Work documents, participating in consultant selection, and overseeing contract compliance and payments.

• Compiled qualitative and quantitative data in order to determine the feasibility of additional Intercity passenger rail opportunities
• Comprised a report and presented recommendations for potential rail lines to the department director detailing each potential lines risks and opportunities.

• Client engagement and guidance of the initial onboarding process.
• Audited expense reports for quality control.
• Scheduled and coordinated shipping logistics for multiple suppliers both domestically and internationally.

• Created graphic or narrative reports on land use data based on land area maps overlaid with geographic variables.
• Recommended approval, denial, or conditional approval of land use applications.
• Compiled data from multiple sources for use in various reports.
• Produced maps and diagrams using GIS software for use in planning and implementation.
• Developed and maintained detailed project schedules, budgets, and action plans.

• Supported housing department staff conducting in-home visits.
• Screened applicants for housing assistance eligibility.
• Updated, recorded, and reconciled reports for our accounting database.