Oak Harbor took additional steps recently to diversify the city’s economy and lessen its financial dependence on the Navy.
Following two public hearings during its regular scheduled Tuesday meeting, April 19, the City Council unanimously approved two measures. One ordinance altered planning documents to reduce the costs of annexation for property owners north of town, along with enticing new businesses to the area, and the other saw the actual annexation of 122 acres along the east side of Goldie Road.