Hood River’s waterfront will be busy with construction this year. Between the Naito hotel and office building complex, new construction on the Expo Center property, a path along the west side of the Nichols Basin and much more, it might be the most work done since fill work to create what is now the waterfront. Port Executive Director Michael McElwee says all of that makes planning for the future even more important than it has been. Planning for Lot 1 along the Nichols Basin is continuing. One issue that Port officials will be watching is parking. McElwee says the Port Commission considered doing a comprehensive parking plan this year, but elected to wait until 2016 to see how the current construction work that will take away Slackwater Beach parking impacts the waterfront.