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Article: Will wrecking yard be getting new look?
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- July 23, 2008
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Yakima County commissioners are contemplating spending about
$140,000 for landscaping to ensure the Douglas Auto Wrecking yard
doesn't become an eyesore in wine country.
The plan, which goes well beyond the fencing requirements
mandated as part of the wrecking yard's relocation, would give the
new business a natural look while making it less of a target for
graffiti than a fence, Commissioner Mike Leita said.
The county is relocating the business to get it off an island in
the Yakima River and out of the floodplain for environmental reasons
and flood prevention. But their choice of a new site, at the corner
of Yakima Valley Highway and Donald-Wapato Road, has stirred
controversy.
The idea ...