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Local Perspective: Yamhill County citizens, you can defeat a giant
... big money — the giant in this story — is adamantly opposed to one trail in particular: the Yamhelas Westsider Trail winding west from McMinnville.
In 1991, the three Yamhill County commissioners in office ...
Guest commentary: Park district 'bridge builder' seeks to derail park bridge
... commissioners fear any bridge or trail successfully built in our community will weaken their case against the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, designed to follow former Union Pacific rail right of way running from just outside ...
Volunteers will clean up trail in Carlton
... owned by Yamhill County. The county purchased the strip of land when it was considering building the Yamhelas Westsider walking and biking trail.
It has been maintained by the county through the jail work release ...
Commissioners chided for opposition to parks, trails
... zones,” saying it was “The same discussion, the same painstaking process we went through with the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. All of those concerns are still there regarding the Newberg-Dundee bypass trail.”
Berschauer’s ...
Letters to the Editor: June 9, 2023
... this.
Thanks!
Lauren Sinclair
Portland
Is trail truly dead?
The last LUBA decision regarding the Yamhelas Westsider Trail was sent to Yamhill County on Dec. 30, 2020. In it, the board said, “We are not ...
Chehalem Park & Rec appeals county denial
... that the county could not build a bridge to access its own property along the route of the proposed Yamhelas Westsider Trail, because an inconsistency in the way the county’s land use zones have been written ...
Commissioners uphold denial of park footbridge
... commission’s May meeting.
The proposal to allow transportation facilities drew protests from opponents of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. Both opponents and county commissioners have expressed opposition to various other ...
Letters to the Editor: April 7, 2023
... Malloy
McMinnville
Rail the future
I am writing to express my concern regarding lack of progress on the Yamhelas Westsider Trail.
I have been a practicing engineer and surveyor, specializing in urban development, ...
Commissioner threatens to seek dismissal of Parks Board member
... the advisory nature of the Parks Board.
“It was evident to me after the BOC foreclosed upon the Yamhelas Trail, that many of the parks board members lost their ‘north star’. Significant time and ...
Members of county parks board speak out
Two quit over claims commissioners packed the volunteer panel with unqualified appointees
Park footbridge denied because of county zoning issue
... problem fixed ever since. But the effort has drawn a storm of protest from opponents of the now-defunct Yamhelas Westsider Trail. LUBA denied the trail because of the road zoning discrepancy, and opponents say they ...
Letters to the editor: February 24, 2023
... inclusion of a pedestrian trail between Newberg and Dundee be nixed from the bypass agreement. It’s Yamhelas Westsider PTSD all over again!
One has to ask why these two are so afraid of bicycles. Perhaps someone ...
Political blinders keep county from finding its way forward
... any plan, program, official, agency or entity ever associated in a favorable way with the now defunct Yamhelas Westsider Trail. After all, their fervent opposition to said trail, which would have followed 17 miles ...
Commissioners remove elected officials from new harassment policy
... one.”
The 2021 complaint followed months of verbal attacks on staff by Berschauer during discussions of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail. Berschauer’s election campaign was heavily financed by trail opponents, and she ...
County Planner asks commissioners to oppose a state appeal
Next for county board: wildfire mapping, which affects ADU rules
2022 Year in Review, Part 1: A selective look back
... Commissioner Lindsay Berschauer made enemies early in her tenure, with her immediate move to end the Yamhelas-Westsider Trail project, and her treatment of county staff during the debates over the trail, among ...
Friday issues new document to allow roads in bypass zones
Staff interpretation intends to avoid Phase 2 complications
Letters to the Editor: November 25, 2022
... loophole to advance the Newberg Bypass project’s Wynooski interchange without risking revival of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail.
In January 2021, the commission, with newly elected Lindsay Berschauer leading the ...
Commissioners reject roads proposal sending it back to Planning Commission
Zoning question ‘has nothing to do’ with Yamhelas trail, county planning director stresses
