HR County Commission Overturns Planning Panel, Approves DeeTour Hotel

Hood River County Commissioners voted unanimously to overturn a County Planning Commission decision that had denied Apollo Land Holdings an industrial land use permit to construct a 50-room hotel on the former Dee Mill site as part of the company’s DeeTour project.  Planning Commissioners had voted 5-2 during the summer to deny the permit, but County Commission Chair Ron Rivers said his panel felt County land use ordinances required them to approve it.  He noted in 1984 when the original land uses were developed, the Dee Mill site was deemed to be industrial property, and an exception was done to keep that zoning into perpetuity.  The Hood River Valley Residents Committee had filed the initial appeal to the County Planning Commission, and have the right to appeal the County Commission decision to the state Land Use Board of Appeals.  Rivers noted even with the approval, the permit contains 36 different conditions that must be met for the hotel to be built.

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