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ȱȡȱClayton Bussey ȡȱȱ ȡȱJoe Mann ȡ Dawn King
CITY OF YAKIMA
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
Date: March 13, 2025
Time: 5:15 p.m
Place: City Hall Council Chambers
Staff: Connor Kennedy, Associate Planner
I. Call to Order Commission Chair
II. Roll Call Staff Liaison
III. Audience Participation Commission Chair
IV. Audience Participation Commission Chair
V. New Business Staff Liaison
i. Certificate of Appropriateness – 5 S. Naches Ave
VI. Other Business Commission Chair
i. Letter in support of Yakima Valley Trolleys
VII. Adjournment
Adjourn to next scheduled Historic Preservation Commission meeting March 26, 2025, at 5:30pm in
the Council Chambers.
February __, 2025
To Whom It May Concern:
The Yakima Historic Preservation Commission is a citizen’s advisory commission tasked with
advising the city council on matters of Yakima history and historic preservation, and
safeguarding structures that reflect significant elements of Yakima’s history. The Yakima Valley
Trolleys organization, with the equipment, buildings, and infrastructure they maintain and
operate, is an outstanding example of just such a significant element of Yakima history.
The trolley tracks have been in use since 1907, serving a variety of freight, public transportation,
and tourist traffic in their 118-year lifetime. Original trolley cars reside inside a car barn that was
built in 1910, and original power generators still stand in a building that was erected in 1911.
Now the trolley system is the only remaining intact original electric interurban railroad in the
United States, and it is currently in the process of becoming a National Historic Landmark.
Volunteers have dedicated countless hours of work to preserving this system. Thanks to their
efforts, trolley cars still roll out of the car barn every year, carrying passengers on educational
trips through the city.
The trolley is an operational and interactive piece of Yakima’s history, and we are fortunate to
have such a vibrant heirloom in our city. The Historic Preservation Commission strongly
supports the Yakima Valley Trolleys organization in its mission to preserve and restore the
trolley and its infrastructure.
Respectfully,
The Yakima Historic Preservation Commission
Cynthia Hall, Chair
Joe Mann Paul Edmondson
Dawn King Clayton Bussey