This month, the White Salmon City Council voted to make every new home EV-ready, and the debate was really about who pays for it. We've also got a denied housing appeal at the Planning Commission, a ten-thousand-dollar snag for the Fourth of July parade at the Community Development Committee, and a storm that closed a road. Here's your June in White Salmon.

In This Episode

• The City Council adopts an EV-ready ordinance, 5-0, and wrestles with affordability
• The six-year transportation plan, storm damage on Skagit and Scenic, and a drought summer
• Cluster mailboxes retired, Knowledge Bowl state champions, and a state housing-board appointment
• The Community Development Committee reworks heritage months and hits a $10,000 parade-closure wall
• The Planning Commission denies the Wyers Street reconsideration and eyes the short-term-rental "30% rule"

Resources & Links

• Read the full written Dispatch at skamaniadispatch.com
• White Salmon agendas, packets, and meeting recordings: whitesalmonwa.gov/meetings
• Submit written public comment: public.comment@whitesalmonwa.gov
• Next up: City Council July 1, Planning Commission public hearing July 8

Community Development Committee coverage draws on a recording from the Columbia Gorge Documenters, powered by Uplift Local (CC BY 4.0).

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