The city of Yachats has contracted with a new planner following the Dec. 31 retirement of Larry Lewis.
David Mattison of Tillamook started the one-day-a-week contract position Jan. 8. In addition to planning duties, Mattison will also handle code enforcement. He will work at City Hall on Tuesdays.
Mattison was the planner for the city of Tillamook from 2000 to 2017, when the city decided to contract out those duties. Before that he was a planner for Umatilla County in eastern Oregon.
He has a bachelor’s degree in planning, public policy and management from the University of Oregon and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Colorado.
In Tillamook, among other things, Mattison administered its planning department, prepared findings and reports for land-use applications, managed land-use complaints and code enforcement and did long-range planning for the city’s downtown redevelopment.
Lewis, who worked for Yachats for 16 years, still works as a contract planner for the cities of Waldport and Depoe Bay.
The City Council last June authorized the hiring of a full-time employee to handle planning, code enforcement and other projects but that position has not yet been filled.
