City Council

Port Angeles to purchase hybrid, electric vehicles

Goal is to align with climate resiliency plan

Port Townsend council approves funding to repave city’s Tyler Street

Contractors expect project to be done in 30 to 40 days

Public works director highlights plans for Port Townsend streets

Staff recommends de-emphazing redundancies

Port Angeles work plan identifies 81 projects tied to vision, objectives

Areas include community resilience, optimization, housing, infrastructure

PDC to look into Sequim letter

Complaint: Support for schools broke law

Council mulling parking plan in Port Townsend

Pilot program would be in downtown core

Sequim City Council member Kelly Burger takes the oath of office from City Clerk Heather Robley on Feb. 10 after council members voted to appoint him to replace Kathy Downer. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim council appoints Burger to fill seat

Appointed position goes through certification of 2025 general election

Sequim staff plan to send a proposal to the state this month to potentially fund sewer and water lift stations on West Sequim Bay Road using new developments’ property taxes through a Tax Increment Area by Sequim Bay in a 363-acre area. It would require the city to prove that developments in the area wouldn’t happen without the stations. The city council also would have to approve it. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim exploring funding mechanism to incentivize development

City would create district, repurpose tax dollars for lift stations

Public opposes rezone of Port Townsend park

City has funded housing site layout study

City of Port Angeles updates mobile and itinerant vendor code

Effective March 1, process expands definitions, establishes criteria

Creative District to transfer to PT

Creating year-round arts economy program’s goal

Kathy Downer, a Sequim City Council member, resigned on Jan. 13 to spend more time with family. She was elected to office in 2021 and reelected to a different position in 2023. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Interviews are set for Sequim opening

Special meeting Feb. 3 for council candidates

Port Angeles will install eight mini roundabouts along Laurel, Sixth and Second streets in an effort to reduce speed and traffic incidents in highly used uncontrolled intersections. (Emma Maple/Peninsula Daily News)

Eight traffic circles to be placed in residential Port Angeles areas

Goal to slow down traffic, improve safety

Kathy Downer takes the oath office for Sequim City Council seat No. 1 on Jan. 8, 2024, in the council chambers. She plans to resign from council this month after three-plus years to spend time with family. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

Sequim council member to resign

Downer unseated former mayor in 2023 election

Port Townsend creates new department to oversee creative district

Melody Sky Weaver appointed director of Community Service Department

Residents of various manufactured home parks applaud the Sequim City Council’s decision on Dec. 9 to approve a new overlay that preserves manufactured home parks so that they cannot be redeveloped for other uses. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim preserves overlay for homes

Plots can be sold, but use must be same

Housing, climate top Port Townsend’s state agenda

City also prioritizes transportation, support at Fort Worden

Property purchase intended for housing

Port Angeles envisions 18 to 40 residents

PA to charge vacant, disconnected properties a base rate for utilities

Goal is more equitable structure, council says

Port Townsend to provide services to homeless encampment

City approves portable bathrooms, dumpsters