City officials reviewed a long-range capital facilities plan outlining decades of strategic building development, including consolidating public works, upgrading emergency service stations, and optimizing underutilized city-owned spaces. The discussion also addressed funding these infrastructure investments and ensuring that a proposed ban on cryptocurrency ATMs applies throughout the Urban Growth Area (UGA) so the machines are not simply relocated just outside city limits.
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Vancouver City Council · Aug 03, 2026 · 1:33:50–1:34:00 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: comprehensive plan capital facilities Capital Facilities UGA Comprehensive Plan
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1:32:49 And hopefully other cities would follow suit. So there are other cities in the state of Washington, Spokane, Spokane Valley, Anacortes, Kennewick, and such, who have done something similar. There we go. Thank you so very much. - So there's the cleaner version with the one that would actually be up for consideration with the Elder Justice Center. - So if the county passes this, then it comes back to the city of Vancouver to determine the regulatory mechanisms that work within the city, or do we expect the county to have overall mechanisms? - So part of the reasoning behind having the county also take action becomes that if you think about the UGA, it really wouldn't do the city of Vancouver much good
1:33:48 to do a ban in the city limits if they were still allowed out in the UGA, because people would just direct them out into that area to get to the ATMs. So countywide action could occur first, and we could, I believe, follow with an ordinance of our own. - Of our expectations of the businesses that have these in them, and how they are removed or reported, et cetera, et cetera. So our regulations might be different than, say, battleground, okay. - All right, thank you so very much. Councilors, do you have any questions of Councilor Perez or the resolution? Councilor Stover. - Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Perez, for bringing this forward. Thank you, Legal, for looking it over. So we have talked about other cities,
1:34:45 but other cities are not listed here. So I would love to see the Elder Justice Board amend this to bring the other cities into the resolution. So other than that, I'm fine with giving authority.
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direct keyword 1:33:50–1:34:00 comprehensive plan, capital facilities, Capital Facilities, UGA, Comprehensive Plan
rall mechanisms? - So part of the reasoning behind having the county also take action becomes that if you think about the UGA, it really wouldn't do the city of Vancouver much good to do a ban in the city limits if they were still allowed out in the UGA, because people would just direct them out into that area to get to the ATMs. So countywide action could occur first, and we could, I believe, follow with an ordinance of our own. - Of our expectations of the businesses that have these in them, a