[Klickitat] ☀️ Balcony Solar and a Postponed Store - White Salmon July '26

White Salmon's biggest land-use hearing of the summer was over in minutes, before it ever opened. Sixty-nine people had already written in about a proposed convenience store across from Rheingarten Park, staff had recommended denial, and then the applicant asked to postpone. In this episode: the White Salmon City Council, the Planning Commission, the Tree Board, the Community Development Committee, and City Lab, the city's climate board, which we are covering for the first time.In This EpisodeTwo street grant applications, and the three hundred sixty thousand dollars of city money riding on themWhy the city's own main street is the most expensive place in town to closeA tree ordinance that charges four hundred dollars for a tree, and the housing question hiding inside itThe twenty-inch water main, and the leak nobody knew about until they went to pull the old pipeBalcony solar, and why it died in OlympiaChildcare, asked for again, at two levels of governmentResources & LinksRead the full written Dispatch at skamaniadispatch.comWhite Salmon agendas, packets and recordings: whitesalmonwa.gov/meetingsWritten comment to Council: [email protected], by noon the Wednesday of the meetingOur June round-up, including the thirty percent short-term rental rule: https://skamania-dispatch.ghost.io/june-in-white-salmon-an-ev-mandate-a-denied-appeal-and-the-30-rule/Our coverage of childcare at the county level: https://skamania-dispatch.ghost.io/childcare-as-economic-infrastructure-klickitat-bocc-4-21-4-28/Meeting notes for the Tree Board, the Community Development Committee and City Lab come from Columbia Gorge Documenters, powered by Uplift Local, CC BY 4.0: https://upliftlocal.news/columbia-gorge/columbia-gorge-documenters/Stay Connected with the GorgeThe Skamania Dispatch and The Klickitattler are community-led projects of OpenGorge.org.To stay updated on local news, governance, and community events across the region, you can sign up for both newsletters at SkamaniaDispatch.com. For real-time updates and to join the conversation, follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/OpenGorge.