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02/23/2006: "Another Senior Planner Leaves - Pressure on CD&PD to Hire"

(Elizabeth Anderson -file photo)

Elizabeth Anderson, Senior Planner for CD&PD (Community Development & Planning Department), has given notice, and will be leaving her position on March 3rd. She had originally planned to leave at the same time as her husband, Martin Blackman, the other Senior Planner in the department who left for another job last fall, but she later decided to try and stay until the Department could find a replacement for her.

Time passed, and while Anderson had hoped to stay with the department until a new replacement could be found, no one has been hired, and then an opportunity arose for Anderson to accept a new job that would allow her to be work near her home on the mainland; and without the grind of leaving her mainland home at 6:30 am to commute to Friday Harbor, and then return home at the end of the day at 7:30 p.m.

"it is not without some regret that I leave the San Juans, it is a beautiful place, and I have enjoyed working with the staff here" she told The Guardian. She added that "the commute has been tiring" Anderson will be working in planning, and doing some permit work in her new position. As for the County, the long range planning department has been loaded down with planning work and projects, and now without any Senior long range planners, there is new pressure to hire someone to assist the two associate planners; hopefully they will be able to do without lowering the standards for the positions.