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Fern Prairie residents balk at Port’s airport plans

Port CEO: ‘We have to plan. You can’t just put your head in a hole and not do it’

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Doug Flanagan/Post-Record Fern Prairie residents listen to Port of Camas-Washougal chief executive director David Ripp (left) speak about the Port's request to annex its Grove Field properties into Clark County's urban growth boundary during an open house on June 5, 2024.

The Port of Camas-Washougal delivered a message to Fern Prairie residents earlier this month about its plans to annex 12 of its properties at Grove Field into the city of Camas in order to attract revenue-generating businesses to the airport. The message wasn’t well-received by the community members, who repeatedly voiced their concerns about how future development could disrupt their lives in a variety of ways.

Nonetheless, Port leaders emerged from an open house, held June 5 at the Port’s administrative office, resolute in their determination to develop the property, preferably with the residents’ blessing.

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