Ashley Golden

Golden has more than 14 years of experience with the City’s Development Services department, where she provides oversight and administrative resources for Planning, Code Compliance, and Building & Engineering Services. She was appointed director in 2015 and has previously served as interim Assistant City Manager when there was a vacancy in 2016. She also has more than three years of experience with the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency as Redevelopment Planner and Community Development Program technician.

Golden brings extensive experience in effective strategic planning, development permit processing, transportation planning, budgeting, enhancing organizational efficiency and effectiveness through streamlining and improving processes, evaluating departmental policies and procedures.

She currently serves on the Oxnard Chamber of Commerce Business Advocacy Committee and is a member of the American Planning Association.