The Wasco County Planning Department is considering obstacles to residential development as part of the statewide effort to create more housing. Planning Director Kelly Howsley Glover says the nuances of housing issues are different in for the unincorporated areas overseen for counties as opposed to the urban areas of cities. Glover says part of her process is looking at streamlining the permitting process to create new housing. Another issue that is much tougher to tackle revolves around aging infrastructure, and how to repair it and increase its capacity. Glover says they are working on data now, with an eye toward taking public input at the end of this year.