The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

I f and when it is completed, Whoopemup Meadows will probably increase Waitsburg's housing stock by more than 50% from its current level. That seems immense, but it will take awhile.

Co-developer Gene Warren says the new new114-lot development on Waitsburg's northwest corner, described in our Page 1 article, could take 20 years to complete, depending on market conditions. If it takes that long, it will work out to an average of less than six new homes per year. That does NOT qualify as explosive growth.

Nevertheless, new housing in the Touchet Valley is needed. Columbia Pulp plans to break...