COEUR d'ALENE - Scott Clark, who has been serving as Kootenai County's community development director, has been reassigned to a long-range planner position, the Kootenai County commissioners said Wednesday.

In the long-range planner position Clark will focus his efforts on ongoing development of the Unified Land Use Code, the commissioners said.

He also will focus on comprehensive plan updates in community development.

"In the interim, Commissioner Todd Tondee will be the acting director to provide for continuity of operations," a Wednesday memo from the commissioners said.

Tondee told The Press the ULUC needs more attention. He said he has "every confidence in Scott's ability" to contribute to the ULUC revision process.

The county will begin advertising for a new community development director as early as this week, he said.

Clark's reassignment comes with a pay cut, and he will serve under the new community development director, Tondee said.

A planning manager post opened up recently, he said, so that money will be used to pay Clark in his new position.

It has been six years or more since the county had a long-range planner, he said.

The reassignment is effective immediately.

Clark was hired as the planning director in April 2007. Before that he was the planning director in Grant County, in central Washington.