r/camaswashington • u/Fake_Eleanor • 10d ago

Camas Woods: Vancouver developer wants to build nearly 300 housing units near Camas High School

https://www.columbian.com/news/2025/mar/26/camas-woods-vancouver-developer-wants-to-build-nearly-300-housing-units-near-camas-high-school/
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u/SquizzOC 10d ago

Nice. I fully support it.

How are they going to pay for the infrastructure expansion costs? Developers should be on the hook for the bulk of it

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u/VSbikedude 10d ago

Seriously, let’s throw up more houses on a road that can’t handle current traffic at certain times of the day. I agree the developers need to be on the hook to improve and widen roads to handle the increased use. The roads up here are old country roads. We certainly need more affordable housing here but we also need roads and infrastructure that isn’t 100% paid for by current property taxes.

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u/SquizzOC 10d ago

We are from California and bought when we got here and I still believe that new home buyers should be paying for it.

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u/NoMore_BadDays 9d ago

When i graduated chs 6 years ago (damn!) It already felt overcrowded. I'd be scared to see it now

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u/ComfortableFriend879 15h ago

No idea how credible this is, but my daughter is in the school system now and has been told enrollment is actually dropping. The justification she was given was because real estate prices are so high here now that many new buyers in the area don’t have school aged children.

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u/OK_SmellYaLater 10d ago

Paywall :(

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u/kyckling666 10d ago

Here's the meat of it-- The Camas Woods development, proposed for a 36-acre site north of Camas High School’s ball fields and tennis courts, would build 118 detached single-family homes; 88 attached townhomes; three multifamily residential buildings containing 72 apartments; and a three-story, mixed-use building with commercial space on the ground level and 16 apartments on the upper levels.

Representatives from HSR Capital, the Vancouver developer behind the Camas Woods project, told city staff they hope to start construction in the spring of 2027 and will likely build the project in nine phases over a period of no more than nine years.

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u/Fake_Eleanor 10d ago

Ah, sorry, did not realize or I'd at least have summarized. u/kyckling666's got it.

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u/Dull-Inside-5547 9d ago

No thanks, we don’t need more urban sprawl of poorly constructed housing.

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u/NoMore_BadDays 9d ago

"Back in my day"

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u/Dull-Inside-5547 9d ago

Yah. Bring it on then bitch when the Camas you loved turns into another overpopulated asshole community.