Santa Monica's longtime planning manager Jing Yeo will head the City's Community Development Department after the quiet departure of its former director less than seven months after being hired.

Yeo briefly held the post on an interim basis in January while the City concluded a four-month nationwide search that led to the hiring of South Pasadena City Manager Arminé Chaparyan to permanently fill the post.

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