By a 4-2 vote, the Columbia Gateway Urban Renewal Agency Board voted to reject all three requests for proposal for the Granada block and move ahead with putting all three properties on the block up for sale with conditions on redevelopment.  The vote by the panel, made up of The Dalles City Council and Mayor Steve Lawrence, came after Councilor Dan Spatz made an impassioned case to not move toward a sale, saying the URA had invested thousands of dollars and should stay the course, focusing on a hotel/conference center concept to generate jobs downtown.  Spatz made a motion based on that argument calling for going out for a request for qualifications that Russ Brown seconded, but they were outvoted 4-2.  The other four then voted to put the properties up for sale.  Taner Elliott noted they could always go back to do a request for qualifications.  Brad Timmons, representing Granada Block Hotel Development, asked the board to negotiate based upon that organization’s RFP, which City Attorney Gene Parker had told Councilors they could not do without an acceptance of the RFP.