Local brief
Yakima County on Oct. 20: 45 mph on Green Valley Road, all-way stop, HOME and CDBG awards
Commissioners meet Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, at 10 a.m. on a regular agenda that includes a 45 mph limit on Green Valley Road, an all-way stop at Old Prosser Highway and Mountainview Road, and more than $700,000 in HOME, CDBG and related grants.
Yakima County posted the Board of Commissioners regular weekly agenda for Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, at 10 a.m. The meeting is open in the BOCC Basement Conference Room (Room 33B) in Yakima and online.
Roads. Ordinance 7-2026 would set a 45 mph speed limit on Green Valley Road from Midvale Road to Snipes Pump Road. Ordinance 8-2026 would make Old Prosser Highway and Mountainview Road an all-way stop. Resolutions would allow temporary WATCH FOR ICE signs and temporary snowmobile use on named mountain roads.
Money. Human Services lists a $152,000 CDBG public-services award and a $435,860.71 HOME program-year award, plus a small HOME rehab contract increase. The Prosecutor lists a $107,681.82 DUI grant and an additional $50,000 for victim-witness assistance. Public Services has a $120,368 Growth Management Act update grant.
The full rundown is in our paper (https://noticenearby.com/papers/yakima-county-commissioners-oct-20-2026-agenda-speed-limits-home-cdbg-grants).
Original source: Yakima County Board of Commissioners, Regular Weekly Agenda, Oct. 20, 2026 (https://www.yakimacounty.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202026-1985). Notice Nearby wrote this brief in its own words.
What to read next: the companion paper (https://noticenearby.com/papers/yakima-county-commissioners-oct-20-2026-agenda-speed-limits-home-cdbg-grants), the Yakima County hub (https://noticenearby.com/wa/yakima), the Washington hub (https://noticenearby.com/wa) and all public papers (https://noticenearby.com/papers). Local businesses, parks and places nearby are on ZOST.app (https://zost.app).
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Source: the public notice on this register NN-GOVEMAIL-20261013-WAYAKIMA · Yakima County Board of Commissioners.
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