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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2017
Planning Commission approves
new Cannon Beach Academy site
Traffi c, tsunami
concerns were
considered
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
Paris Achen/Capital Bureau
Gov. Kate Brown talked to reporters Thursday in her Ore-
gon Capitol offices about the revenue impact of proposed
transportation plans.
Tax package failure
could pave way for
transportation bill
Few weeks left
to a craft deal
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The fail-
ure of a state revenue-rais-
ing package this legislative
session could “clear a path
forward” for passing a long-
awaited transportation fund-
ing bill, Gov. Kate Brown
said Thursday.
“When you’re tackling
multiple very diffi cult issues
and revenue reform, that’s
something that legislators
and governors have spent
decades trying to address,”
Brown said. “When …
move it off to the side, it
certainly clears a path for-
ward for transportation.”
Brown said passing the
transportation package is
now her administration’s
focus for the less than three
weeks remaining in the
session.
“We are working very
closely with the legislative
work group, and folks have
rolled up their sleeves and
are working hard as well.
Everyone is moving in the
right direction.”
Brown made the com-
ments shortly before hold-
ing a nearly four-hour meet-
ing with leaders on the
legislative work group that
authored the package of
road congestion and mainte-
nance projects and increases
in taxes and fees.
The tax increase means
the Legislature’s Demo-
cratic majority will need
Republican votes to obtain
the constitutionally required
three-fi fths majority vote to
raise revenue for the trans-
portation projects.
Republicans and Dem-
ocrat leaders continue to
negotiate specifi cs of the
plan. But Republicans have
stopped short of promising
their votes.
There is no guarantee of
GOP votes, said Jonathan
Lockwood, a spokesman for
Senate Republicans.
Republicans are decry-
ing a bill headed to the
House fl oor today that
would slash a tax break for
“pass through businesses —
generally small businesses
whose profi ts are taxed
as their owners’ personal
income.
The proposal would
bring in nearly $200 million
in additional money to help
offset the state’s $1.4 billion
revenue shortfall.
Democrats say the tax
exemption, a bargain with
Republicans in 2013, has
failed to stimulate job
growth and benefi ts wealthy
professionals such as hedge
fund managers, lawyers and
doctors.
Republicans also have
been seeking changes to
multi billion-dollar transpor-
tation package, including
rollbacks to the state’s car-
bon emissions standards and
a smaller gas tax increase.
However, both parties have
invested considerable effort
in crafting the plan to main-
tain roads and bridges, ease
congestion and increase the
accessibility of transit.
‘Getting to a
transportation
package
would be
something
people would
be really
happy to
see come
together this
session.’
Jonathan Lockwood
“Getting to a transpor-
tation package would be
something people would be
really happy to see come
together this session,” Lock-
wood said.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
CANNON BEACH — The
Cannon Beach Academy is one
step closer to opening this fall
in the former Preschool and
Children’s Center building.
The P lanning C ommis-
sion voted unanimously and
with little discussion Thurs-
day to grant a conditional use
permit to the kindergarten-
through- second- grade charter
school. Any exterior changes
or modifi cations still need to
be reviewed by the Design
Review Board before the
school can acquire a building
permit to move forward with
the project, City Planner Mark
Barnes said.
Although establishing the
academy in Cannon Beach has
been in the works for more than
four years, the last-minute need
to fi nd a new location came
when the board received an
estimate of $150,000 over the
$90,000 they budgeted for con-
struction costs at the original
location on Sunset Boulevard.
An almost identical request
was approved by the Planning
C ommission in May 2015 and
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The Cannon Beach Academy hopes to open a charter
school at the former Preschool and Children’s Center.
again in January at 171 Sunset
Blvd.
David Vonada, of Tolovana
Architects , said at the meeting
most of the work will be small
safety improvements, like
improving exit signs and mak-
ing door handles Americans
with Disabilities Act acces-
sible, and expects few to no
external changes.
“This building was just
meant to be,” Vonada said.
While the city, which owns
the property, did assess the
building to be structurally
sound and found that a char-
ter school would not impact
traffi c signifi cantly, the former
Children’s Center is not with-
out fl aws.
The site is technically
within the tsunami inundation
area, according to a map done
in 2013 by the Oregon Depart-
ment of Geology and Min-
eral Industries. However, this
map has no regulatory power,
meaning the school can choose
to do with that information
what it may, Barnes said.
It is the 1995 tsunami inun-
dation map, also prepared by
the state , that rules schools can-
not be built in the tsunami zone
without a formal consultation
with the state. The Children’s
Center site is outside of the
1995 version of the zone, and
therefore not bound by these
restrictions.
One of the reasons the origi-
nal elementary school closed in
2013 was due to tsunami safety
concerns. But neither Vonada,
Planning Commission chair
Bob Lundy or Barnes found
this to be a high priority issue
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for the charter school because
of the site’s proximity to evac-
uation routes and access to
higher ground.
“With the old elementary
school, it’s a 20 minute walk to
higher ground, and you would
have to cross a bridge,” Barnes
said.
Because the school has
opted to use a parent rideshare
system instead of a school bus,
Commissioner Joe Bernt raised
concerns about possible con-
gestion in what is already a
narrow parking lot with only
one exit.
“We will have a half-hour
drop-off window to give stu-
dents extra time,” Cannon
Beach Academy Executive
Director Amy Moore told the
Planning C ommission.
Other aspects, such as addi-
tional ADA requirements or
fi re code improvements, are
to be determined later by the
city’s building offi cial.
The city is still negotiating
with academy representatives
on a three-year lease, which is
the amount of time academy
board members expect to out-
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also hired two teachers, Dawn
Jay from Aloha and Melissa
Kennedy from Klammath
Falls, Moore said.
As of Thursday , 40 students
were enrolled to start in the
fall, Moore said.
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