City Manager Allen J. Parker has announced that he will resign Oct. 31 to take the top city post in Half Moon Bay, an agricultural and resort community about 24 miles south of San Francisco.
"It's an environmentally oriented decision for me," said Parker, noting that Half Moon Bay, with a population of 7,282 engaged in agriculture, fishing and candle manufacturing, is a far cry from the Southern California environment in which he has worked since 1961.
Parker became Seal Beach city manager in 1981. He begins work in Half Moon Bay on Nov. 4.
"We're very sorry to see him go," Mayor Oscar Brownell said. "When he came to us in 1981 we faced a large deficit and he's turned that around."
Brownell cited the Bixby project, a three-office complex that will break ground before the end of the year, as one of the major accomplishments of Parker's tenure, as well as several residential projects still under negotiation.
