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Changes in Downtown Parking Aimed at Maximizing Availability

As part of an ongoing effort to improve customer access to parking in Downtown Yakima, parking time limits will be changed in several City-operated parking lots as of October 1st. The Yakima City Council approved the parking time limit changes after a study was conducted last fall by a nationally-recognized consulting firm. Five City-operated lots

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New Windows Alive! Art Display Starts October 2nd in Downtown Yakima

In 2013, the Yakima Arts Commission, an advisory group appointed by the Yakima City Council, developed an idea to harness the creativity of Central Washington artists to help invigorate windows of empty downtown storefronts by displaying their work as part of a new project called, “Windows Alive!”. Based on similar projects that have proven successful

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Yakima City Council Study Session Preview

The Yakima City Council holds a study session on Tuesday, September 29th, 2015. The meeting begins at 10:00 am at Yakima City Hall Items on the September 29th study session include: Yakima public market and business Incubator feasibility study Proposed agreements for the design, construction and operation of an aquatics center at Chesterly Park Additional

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Triumph Actuation Systems Employees Help Spruce Up Randall Park

More than 100 employees from Triumph Actuation Systems – Yakima are expected to blanket Randall Park on Wednesday, September 30th to plant about 400 small trees and shrubs and 30 larger trees. Triumph Actuation systems Yakima has awarded the Yakima Parks and Recreation Division with a grant that will cover the cost of the shrubs

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Sunfair Parade Kicks Off Fair Season in Yakima

For the 54th year in a row, the Yakima Sunfair Parade will follow its familiar route of more than one-and-a-half miles through Downtown Yakima on Saturday, September 26th. The parade is expected to include more than 500 participants as it makes its way down Yakima Avenue from 16th Avenue to Naches Avenue. Presented by platinum

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Study Session and Community Meeting to Focus on The Power of a Plaza

Downtown development leaders from Rapid City, South Dakota and Missoula, Montana will share stories of how plazas reshaped their downtown cores during a Yakima City Council study session in the afternoon on Tuesday, September 22nd and again at a community meeting that evening. The Council study session will begin at 2:00 pm in the Council

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Paving Project Will Impact Traffic on a Portion of Spruce Street

A repaving project will result in the daytime closure of a portion of Spruce Street from Monday, September 21st through Thursday, September 24th. Spruce between Union Street and Fair Avenue will be closed each day from September 21st through September 24th from 6:00 am until 4:30 pm. Pavement along that section of Spruce will be

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September 2015 City of Yakima Issues Brief e-Newsletter

Articles in the September 2015 City of Yakima Issues Brief include – Dog Paddle Will Be Stroke of Choice During Paws In the Pool – Thank You Letter to Yakima Community for Firefighter Donations – No Fall Leaf Pickup Program in Yakima This Year. Click on the link below to read the September 2015 City of Yakima Issues Brief e-Newsletter.

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