THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015
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Council gets earful on tree-cutting
Cannon Beach
residents object
25 smaller “brush trees.”
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200 dead or dying alder
By ERICK BENGEL
trees hanging over the road
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may pose a hazard to drivers
and needed to be eliminat-
CANNON BEACH — ed. About 5,000 trees stand
Tuesday’s City Council meet- along that stretch of road,
LQJ ZDV WKH ¿UVW VLQFH WKH according to Bill Jablonski,
Oregon Department of Trans- manager of ODOT District 1.
portation cut down about 55
Phil Massebeau, John-
trees from U.S. Highway 101 son’s neighbor and son-in-
between Cannon Beach’s law, said the city should have
north entrance and Sunset “let us know what’s going
Boulevard on March 9, and on.”
the councilors got an earful
His wife, Kirsten Masse-
during the public comment beau (Johnson’s daughter),
period.
said she wishes the city had
7KH ODFN RI QRWL¿FDWLRQ asked its arborist, Will Ca-
that the trees would be re- plinger, to conduct an inde-
moved and when they would pendent review of the target-
be removed upset some res- ed trees.
idents whose properties bor-
“I’m not happy with the
der the affected area.
result. I’m not happy with
“It seems like you — the the way the city handled it.
people here representing ‘We I’m not happy with the way
the People’ — have not fol- the state handled it,” Johnson
lowed through very well with said.
being diligent in your respon-
No negotiations
sibility to inform us (about)
Toward the end of the
what’s going on in a timely
fashion,” said Ed Johnson, a meeting, Councilor Mike
Benefield told the audience
Cannon Beach resident.
Johnson lives directly he felt the council was “be-
east of the highway corridor ing lectured to, and the ones
where ODOT employees and who should’ve been lectured
contractors with Trails End to was ODOT.”
On March 9, Benefield
Recovery, a Warrenton-based
timber recycling company, was “as surprised as any-
felled about 30 trees 8 inches body” to learn that ODOT
or more in diameter and 20 to and its crew were down on
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ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group
In this photo, the trees east of the highway, right, have
been thinned, and the ODOT and Trails End Recovery team
goes to work on the west side in March. The team was
chided by neighbors for “destroying” Cannon Beach’s
scenic byways.
the highway, he said; the de-
partment had been postpon-
ing the tree-removal project
for almost a year.
City Manager Brant
Kucera said that, before the
thinning occurred, he met
with Jablonski and asked
him to hold off on the proj-
ect. Jablonski indicated that
ODOT was unwilling to wait
any longer and cited Oregon
law 366.366, which clearly
states the department can re-
move trees from a state right
of way without first obtain-
ing a permit.
“That was the end of the
discussion, as far as I was
concerned,” Kucera said.
“No one supersedes their au-
thority in that right of way.”
Benefield said there was
almost no way the city could
have stopped ODOT, except
“take our heavy equipment
out there, and block them,
and then get sued for it.”
“How would we feel if
someone tried to super-
sede our right of ways in
our own city, you know? It
makes it impossible to do
business that way,” Kucera
said. “(ODOT is) a transpor-
tation department. Whether
we like it or not, their job is
to move things along high-
ways ... in the most efficient
means possible and the saf-
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ODOT will not return
to cut more trees until next
year, Kevin Werst, the de-
partment’s
transportation
maintenance manager for
the Warrenton Section of
District 1, said March 9.
“I don’t want them to
come back and cut more
trees, is basically the bottom
line,” Phil Massebeau said at
the meeting.
“We feel they’ve done
enough,” Kirsten Massebeau
said.
Benefield thanked the
speakers for their comments,
telling them that “We do hear
you,” and that the council
will “work on these things as
best we can.”
Meanwhile, the city staff
has “spent a lot of time with
the ODOT personnel and
been working to develop a
relationship there that I think
is going to improve the situ-
ation,” he said.
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their minds, this is safety.”
In addition, once ODOT
marked certain trees as “haz-
ard trees,” the department
became legally liable for
what would happen if any
collapsed onto the highway.
“You can question their
arborist in his choice of
trees, but ODOT is not go-
ing to question the fact that,
once they’re marked ... they
are essentially cut at that
point,” Kucera said. “There
is no choice in the matter.
That was made very clear to
me.”
ODOT told Kucera that
the department is willing to
negotiate on whether to re-
plant the trees, what species
to replant with, and how to
handle the understory, “but
there was no negotiation on
the trees that were coming
down,” he said.
Defending
Jablonski,
Cannon Beach city manager
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