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JULY
HOUSING
from page Z
and Harris Orchards, the num-
ber goes as high as 1,2oo
employed during the peak sea-
son. "It's heavily oriented to the
Mercer carrot crop," said Peck.
The residents of Pueblo del
Rio are expected to come
from the Yakima Vall~.
Many of the agriculture work-
ers in the east end drive daily
from the valley, said Peck. He
said that a few families would
ground the development,
moving in first. "About two
days after school starts the
rest will come," said Peck. He
expects word of mouth in the
workers' community to
spread news of a great school
just across the street. Peck
also notes the river view.
FiReen of the 20 units are set
aside for "agricultural workers,"
four units are held for any qual-
ified low- to moderate-irieome
family and one apartment is
held for the on-site manager,
said Peters.
Rent for the units, according
to CCHC, starts at $365 for a
two-bedroom and $425 for the
three-bedroom units.
RACE TRACK
from page I
Willows, Calif.
"When I first came to
Goldendale, I thought, 'It's
just like Willows', rural and
agricultural." Seven miles
outside of Willows, near
Sacramento, is where the San
Francisco SCCA chapter built
Thunder Hill in the early '9os.
It appears there have been
few, if any, noise complaints.
According to Daniel
Obermeyer, planning director
for Glenn County where
Willows lies, that is because
Thunder Hill was built in a
small depression and is com-
pletely surrounded by ranch
land.
"The land was part of a
larger ranch and a hunting
club for pheasants.., not
much noise gets out,"
Obermeyer said.
Thunder Hill also provides
operational and business
models for the track that
SCCA has in mind for
Goldendale, according to
Zurschmeide.
That is significant for noise
impact, Obermeyer pointed
out. "The vehicles are not real
loud. They ore mostly street-
legal vehicles," he said.
Zurschmeide said that the
club's participants are ama-
teur racers. "People think
about Daytona and Sebring.
We're not like that, not a cir-
cle track, but a road track,
and we want to attract partic-
ipants. They pay the fees. It's
not the big-money thing; it's
amateurs coming to pursue
their passion."
Zurschmeide said that the
standard the Goldendale
track will follow is xo3 deci-
bels (db) measured 5o feet
from the track side.
"We make less noise than a
freeway or city buses," he
claimed.
One reason Goldendale is
attractive is its good weather,
and SCCA's business plan
intends to utilize that advan-
tage fully.
"We will operate most days
during the week.., any time
when the weather is good,"
Zursehmeide said. That
means, potentially, seven
days a week, 3oo days a year.
Most clays at PIR, he added,
there are about 1o cars. "At
one of our races, if lOO spec-
tators come, we are happy."
In addition to club mem-
bers participating in races,
hoped-for track users include
The Sports Car Club of America, Oregon Region, is proposing a track
other clubs, motorcycle rac-
ers, law enforcement agencies
that use such tracks for exer-
cises, and automobile manu-
facturers, which do "ride-
and-drives" for their sales
people to see what new cars
can do.
"There's a big market in the
Northwest for that," said
Zurschmeide.
CITY, COUNTY
SUPPORTIVE
Goldendale Mayor Mark
Sigfrinius is anxious to see
the track succeed, primarily
for the economic boost he
sees it offering.
"They have never put in an
SCCA track that failed,"
Sigfrinius said.
Meanwhile, it is a foregone
conclusion, due to the track's
location, that permitting will
be handled through Klickitat
County. The county's
Economic Development
Director, Dana Peck, and
Planning Director Curt
Dreyer met with SCCA offi-
cers about a month ago to dis-
cuss the matter, according to
Sigfrinius.
"They will have to go
through certain steps - a
SEPA [State Environmeotal
Policy Act] checklist, a public
hearing for a rezone,"
Sigfrinius said.
Regarding noise regula-
tions, Peck said his under-
standing was that the coun-
ty's noise ordinance may need
to be rewritten first. "It is still
not tied to the state's quanti-
tative measures. It is subjec-
tive."
Protecting neighbors, Peck
added, is "job one.., what do
we need to do to protect the
neighbors and still get the
stuff in the ground?"
Sigfrinius said that
Zurschmeide recently wrote
an article about Klickitat
County in SCCA's magazine,
The Loud Pedal, and he reit-
erated that they are set on
locating here.
"The next step is a formal
offer [on the land].., their goal
is to be building by summer
2005. They have to find
financing," Sigfrinius said.
Zurschmeide confirmed the
interest, but added, "We'll do
nothing until we know we
have the means... We're mak-
ing the case it can be prof-
itable, and we want the [busi-
ness], plan absolutely nailed
down before asking for
money."
IRONIC LESSON
Ellmyer mentions a hugely
ironic twist that ultimately
brought him and his PIR
rivals together a
years ago, and
into the
speeding race car
said, scared the
lights out of him.
As it
something even
noisier that
fought together,
ed: an outdoor
proposed
Microsoft's
"Amphitheater
Ellmyer called it.
first time that car
and neighbors
same side
The lesson
which may be
tive for
something like
along is a state
"As a result
relations over
ater, the car
an extra effort
tiers," E11myer
Despite this
Ellmyer is dead
noise. Along
remote location,
for Goldendale is
"I am pretty
doing it right
paying costs up
vents all the
calls that city
get... You'll save
huge amount of
TRAIL
from page 1
nificantly affect the wild and
scenic river (i.e., native
American dip-net fishery,
anadromous and resident fish,
hydrology, and geology). Trail
managers will continue work-
ing with the Yakama Tribal
government to mitigate any
effects of increased public trail
use on native fishing and spiri-
tual values;
Determining that the
Columbia River Gorge National
Scenic Area has the authority to
work in partnership with
Washington State Parks &
Recreation, the owner of the
railbanked corridor, to plan
and manage the trail on the old
railroad bed;
Finding that potential affects
of future developments and
management actions by the
Forest Service on the state-
owned trail were adequately
disclosed, and that the plan-
ning process adequately
involved the concerned public.
"I concur with the finding of'no
significant impact' ... and agree
that the proposed trail project
is not a major federal action
that would require preparation
of an Environmental Impact
Statement," Goodman wrote.
Finding that the concerns
voiced by the various parties
have been adequately
addressed, including the issue
related to a survey of the trail
right of way, which is the
responsibility of Washington
State Parks & Recreation.
Goodman pointed out that State
Parks has offered to "perform
engineering surveys if a private
CHAMBER
from page 1
the county's Economic
Development Department.
Mosbrucker told The Sentinel
that she had not been paid in
three months.
Tensions evidently came to
a head during the rock crawl.
An event sponsor from out of
state wrote a letter to the
Chamber board describing a
confrontation at the event site
involving herself, Mosbrucker
and Goodrich.
Ireland, the Chamber's vice
president, declined to give
further details about any other
pending board actions related
to the situation, calling it an
employer-employee matter.
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landowner provides evidence of
a conflict between the right of
way and private lands."
Klickitat County
Commissioner Don Struck said
he was not surprised by the
regional forester's decision
regarding the trail.
"It's what we expected,"
Smack said. "We were encour-
aged they noted that State
Parks will assist local folks with
surveys and actual delineation
of where the trail is on private
for the county Commissioners.
"We made our ease for the
protection of private property
concerns," Struck explained.
"It's incumbent on them to do
everything they can to make it
• as even a transition as possible."
Bob Hansen, president of
the Klickitat Trail Conservancy
-- a non-profit organization
created to support the trail --
was gratified to hear of
Goodman's decision.
"It shows they were trying to
do everything they could to
address everybody's concerns.
They were very deliberate in
their approach," said Hansen,
who lives in Lyle.
Hansen added that there
seems to be decreasing contro-
versy regarding the trail as time
goes on.
"It seems to me the trail is
pretty well accepted now," he
explained.
property. It sounds like they are
willing to do that. They also KLCK A.Mvl400. 773-3300
identified the need for sanitary : 9a:i
services and law enforcement,
and being mindful of open
range issues."
Struck said protecting the
rights of those property owners
who live along the trail was
always the primary motivation
ipate the
issue again.
ities," Struck said. *
quiets down,
Or/e can get along,
The opening
improvements to
expected to
are released by t
ernment in
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