The Klickitat County Commission has scheduled an Oct.11 public hearing on a proposal to rezone acreage in Dallesport from single family lots to multi-family. The rezone plan involves property bordered by Third Avenue to the south, Sixth Avenue to the north, and Central Boulevard to the west.

County wants more details before deciding on money for gorge commission The Gorge Commission asked Klickitat County to dedicate its own full-time planner to scenic area land use applications in the county, plus pay $37,000 for a half-time gorge Commission planner to do the same.

Panel says county applications take up lion’s share of planning For 27 years now, the Gorge Commission has processed scenic area land use applications from Klickitat County, since it’s the only gorge county that did not adopt its own scenic area rules. But with reduced staff and pressing gorge-wide issues to attend to, the Gorge Commission is reluctantly planning to almost halve the amount of staff time spent on Klickitat County applications — at a time when applications have doubled because of a rebounded economy.