I feel for him and completely understand what he’s going through. This code has been around for a long time. “There’s an aesthetic value that our council has as a priority for us,” Kneipp said.

While the city’s code allows for up to five unpaved parking spaces. But just to say, ‘I don’t want it? I’m sorry, but that doesn’t work.” Show me that it can’t be done or that it’s cost-prohibitive for your project and maybe I can look at it. But big trucks drive on pavement a lot, so it can be done. “The maneuvering area for his trucks - possibly, possibly we could look at that. I just can’t,” said Mitch Kneipp, the city of Washougal’s community development director. “I can’t see a way that we get away from paved parking. Washougal’s municipal code requires a lot to be “graded to ensure proper drainage, pursuant to the Washougal engineering standards for public works construction, surfaced with concrete, asphalt or permeable pavement, and maintained in good condition free of obstructions.”Ĭity staff said they have not been able to find a solution to the impasse with Webster. Why create pollution and filter it and put it back into the ground when there never was any in the first place?” “To create a filtration system to capture the contaminants off the asphalt doesn’t make sense when there’s no contaminants now because there is no asphalt. I put a lot of gravel in here,” Webster said. Webster said he also takes issue with the city’s request to install a stormwater filtration system to remove oils from the asphalt. My excavator would ruin the asphalt, and the asphalt would ruin the tracks on the excavator. “My log truck would just tear all the asphalt out. “I have a log truck that comes in, (and other) equipment that goes through here,” Webster explained. The city said he will need to pave the entrance to his gravel parking lot, but Webster said that requirement doesn’t make sense. Webster wants to open the restaurant, which he plans to call “Wood Yard,” on the site of his current business, Joe’s Stump Grinding and Tractor Work at 740 “E” St. I’ve done everything I can … now it’s time to go in with the wallet.” “I’ve got so much that I need to do, and I want to just go, go, go. “I’m in a hurry and I’m on hold,” Webster said. The only thing he needed was permission from the city of Washougal. He had the equipment, employees, food supply chains and a devoted customer base. When Joe Webster set out to open an outdoor barbecue restaurant on his Washougal property, he thought he had everything ready to go.Īfter all, Webster had the land.

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