After closing a two-week public hearing that included more than three hours’ worth of council debate, public testimony and repeated clarifications from city staff, the Camas City Council voted 6-1 this week to formally approve the city’s 2022 Parks, Recreation and Open Space (PROS) Plan and its prioritized list of short- and long-range capital facilities needs.
Officials are hoping a pilot program requiring timed-use vehicle permits will help reduce traffic and improve safety in the popular “waterfall corridor” on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge. From May 24 through Sept. 5, the new program will require a timed-use permit for personal vehicles to access federal lands in the waterfall corridor — a 7-mile corridor located between Bridal Veil Falls and Ainsworth State Park — between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., seven days a week.
The city of Camas’ annual egg hunt is back on after two years of COVID-19 pandemic-related cancellations.
The Camas City Council will continue a public hearing on the city’s Parks, Recreation and Open Space (PROS) Plan on Monday, April 18.
Anyone who drives through Camas regularly knows it’s tough to overlook an upcoming election. The city’s busiest roadways and intersections are hot real estate for political signs, but a new proposal being considered by the Camas City Council could limit those signs to areas outside Camas’ traffic circles.
As a three-year, $31 million restoration project once described as “the largest the lower Columbia River has seen” wraps up at Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge this spring,…
A proposal to severely restrict the siting of drug and alcohol treatment centers — as well as “sober living” homes — within Camas’ city limits stalled this week after Camas City Council members discovered elements of the proposed city code amendments could violate state and federal laws.
Camas officials are one step closer to approving a Camas-Washougal Fire Department capital facilities plan showing the fire department will require roughly $35 million worth of fire station and apparatus improvements and replacements over the next decade.
After 32 years with the Camas Police Department – and 14 years as its chief – Camas Police Chief Mitch Lackey has announced he will retire within the…
The cities of Camas and Washougal are set to receive a total of $11.3 million from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021.
kelly.moyer@camaspostrecord.com
