[Klickitat] 🏘 Rules for Backyard Homes - Goldendale July 2025

Goldendale's City Council spent both July meetings fighting over one sentence in its new backyard-homes rule: whether somebody has to actually live on the property. It passed anyway. Also this month, a five-year airport engineering deal, an award-winning sewage plant, and a resident who asked the mayor point blank whether the city plans to sell its water to a data center.In This EpisodeGoldendale adopts an accessory dwelling unit code, and why the objection that opened the hearing turned out to rest on a misreadingThe owner-occupancy clause, and the police chief's question that actually changed the ordinanceA wider runway that starts with a culvert, and a three hundred sixty thousand dollar plan trimmed to seventy-one"Are we going to sell our water to the data center?"Six years running for the wastewater treatment plantSidewalks, outdoor dining, and who actually gets blockedCommunity Days, a ceremonial key, and a centennial nobody can confirmResources & LinksRead the full written Dispatch at skamaniadispatch.comCity of Goldendale agendas, packets and minutesCity of Goldendale City CouncilPrior coverage: Smoke, Weeds and Fireworks, Goldendale's June round-upPrior coverage: Data Centers Come Knocking, Klickitat CountyStay 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.