07/09/2020
Call to Action:
Friends we need your help. Yamhill County is still attempting to push the Yamhelas Westsider Trail through the middle of a couple of our farms that are zoned Exclusive Farm Use. We have been able to prove the detrimental impacts a trail will have on us due to a high land use standard called a "Farm Impacts Test." The County who is the applicant in this land use application has decided since they can not get past the "Farm Impacts Test" that they will just change the county land use code and bypass this test!!!!! Basically if they cant win they just change the rules.
So two things
1. Please go to this website to learn some more and sign our petition. https://stopyamhelastrail.com/
2. If you are free tonight we could use your support in person at a planning commission meeting. 7pm at the Civic Center in McMinnville. The county is trying to hold a public hearing and use Covid 19 and a busy farming season to suppress public comment and participation. You don't have to say anything in the meeting just come sign in and show your support in person. Masks and social distancing are required.
Thanks for your help
SIGN THE PETITION Even during the COVID crisis, Yamhill County has wasted tax payer dollars purchasing land and rights-of-way for a trail that has not met laws designed to protect family farms. Even more troubling, after the county learned their efforts were illegal, the county approved spe...