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Yakima County to Continue Agritourism Hearing after Drafts Add ‘Guest Lodging’ and Parking Flexibility
Summary
Yakima County public services staff and commissioners agreed to continue the agritourism hearing to incorporate stakeholder feedback on new winery and agritourism text that replaces “overnight lodging” with “guest lodging” and adds temporary overflow parking allowances.
Yakima County public services staff asked the Board of Yakima County Commissioners on May 5 to continue a multi-year agritourism hearing so the board can set a future date to close the hearing and consider ordinance updates. The proposed changes would add a guest-lodging allowance for wineries, distilleries and agritourism operations and permit temporary overflow parking on agricultural properties when it does not interfere with farm operations.
The change replaces the term “overnight lodging facilities” with “guest lodging facilities,” Olivia Story, Public Services, said. "We're proposing changing it to guest lodging facilities because we have a definition for overnight lodging facilities, and it runs kinda contradictory to what we're trying to do here," Story said, adding that the new language is intended to allow cabins, RVs, tents and yurts while avoiding unintended regulatory conflation with standalone overnight lodging uses.
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