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Camas council halts parks land sale

Community response overwhelmingly against selling publicly owned open space

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A map showing the parcel of publicly owned parks open space near Round Lake in Camas, where a former city councilor had hoped to build an 81-unit senior living development with an attached 48-bed memory care facility and underground parking garage. (Contributed photo courtesy of city of Camas)

Inundated by negative community response, Camas officials have backed away from a development plan near Round Lake that could have sold city-owned park land to a senior living developer and used the profits to fund future parks in Camas’ developing North Shore area.

Camas City Administrator Pete Capell said last week that city staff had received “numerous emails and Facebook messages” indicating a great number of Camas community members were not happy with an Oct. 16 city council decision allowing city staff to investigate the possibility of selling the 2.7-acre parcel to former City Councilman Tim Hazen for a private development project.

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