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Residents raise concerns over housing density, tax breaks, parking and bridge costs during public comment
Summary
Multiple residents spoke during public comment at the Feb. 18 council meeting, urging caution on residential tax abatements and higher-density development, raising downtown parking worries, and criticizing a proposed regional bridge and transit elements.
Several Camas-area residents used the city’s public comment period on Feb. 18, 2025, to raise a range of concerns including tax abatements for residential development, downtown parking, emergency services consolidation, and the proposed new Columbia River bridge.
Gary Gaskill raised concern about the long-term fiscal effect of adding higher-density housing that receives tax reductions, saying the city could see a shrinking taxable base: "some people call it a time bomb," he said. He also worried that new higher-density buildings…
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