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In case you missed it, here are some of the top stories of the week:
At nearly 1 a.m. Tuesday morning, just hours before the Clark County council would vote to dismantle his land-use proposal, Councilor David Madore took to Facebook.
In a 450-word diatribe on his Facebook page, the Republican councilor accused county planning staff of having an “anti-rural growth agenda,” of using “covert software” and of manipulating records to “grossly inflate” the number of developable lots in rural Clark County for the county’s 20-year growth plan.
Read more about the land-use vote.
Starting next school year, high-schoolers at Evergreen Public Schools will have a little more time in the mornings before hitting their snooze buttons.
The district announced on Monday that Evergreen, Heritage, Mountain View and Union high schools will run from 8:40 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. beginning in the fall. Classes at the schools currently start at 7:45 a.m. and end at 2:15 p.m. Henrietta Lacks Health and BioScience High School, which starts at 7:30 a.m., will start at 8:05 a.m. Legacy High School, which starts at 8 a.m., and the Clark County Skills Center, which starts at 7:50 a.m., won’t change start times.
Learn about the reasons for the new start times.
Interested in buying a vacant block at the heart of downtown Vancouver for a great project?
Not a single developer formally responded two years ago when the city issued a “request for interest” to see what potential developers envisioned for Block 10, which is catty-corner to Esther Short Park.
But the market has heated up since 2014, and now the city is planning to advertise Block 10 again.
Read about the plan to sell block.
A quiet kitchen that once played host to bodies rushing around stainless steel and steam could again see life on a Columbia River pier.
The Port of Vancouver and Clark College are embarking on a broad agreement that could house the school’s culinary program while providing a new use for what remains of the former restaurant in the Red Lion Hotel Vancouver at the Quay building at Terminal One.
Learn more about the plan for the former hotel’s space.
The high-rise buildings in a future $1.3 billion commercial and residential project on downtown Vancouver’s waterfront won’t rise as high as planned.
Developers of the project, called The Waterfront Vancouver, are lowering some of the building sizes due to Federal Aviation Administration height restrictions and economic factors, said Barry Cain, president of Gramor Development of Tualatin, Ore.
Read more about restrictions and economic factors effecting the waterfront development.
Every year The Columbian takes the opportunity to share portraits of some of the people who make Clark County such a special place to live, work, learn and play. In this year’s edition, we highlight small business owners, a cancer survivor and many volunteers and experts who have left an impact on their chosen field or the community as a whole.
