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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015
Patriot Hall: Classes will be moved
to Towler Hall during construction
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During construction, the
college will disperse physical
education and other classes
into Towler Hall, while mov-
ing the weight room and ar-
chives into Alder Hall.
Photo courtesy of the Clatsop County Historical Society
Noel Weber said he wants to restore the YMCA build-
ing, built in 1914 at 12th and Exchange streets, to its
historic glory.
Old YMCA:
Building will include
teaching workshops
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For visiting artists, the
building will include a screen
printing shop; mold-making
and model facility; ceram-
ics studio; wood shop; a
Risograph high-speed digi-
tal printing system; a letter-
press; and audio/video pro-
duction space.
The building will in-
clude teaching workshops
he said will bring artists
from around the country to
Astoria.
“We plan to start re-
modeling around the end
of the year,” he said.
Weber said he wants to
restore the 11,500-square
foot building, built in 1914,
to its historic glory. He add-
ed the project will likely
take about two years.
“We will not be restor-
ing the pool,” he said, add-
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the 1980s. “We don’t want
the maintenance. We will,
on the other hand, be keep-
ing the basketball court.”
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Noel Weber, who runs Classic Design Studio in Boi-
se, Idaho, purchased the former YMCA building in
May from James K. Russell and will turn it into a cre-
ative design agency and art center.
Valuing students
“Going into Towler or
Columbia Hall, they feel val-
ued,” Galizio said to the dig-
nitaries gathered Saturday in
the Patriot Hall Gym for the
groundbreaking. “They get to
see these beautiful buildings
where they’re improving their
chances for an education.”
“They come in here, and
I don’t think they get that
same kind of feeling,” Gal-
izio added, pointing out the
wood-paneled walls, exposed
utility lines and generally
well-worn appearance of Pa-
triot Hall. “That’s going to
change in about a year.”
The new Patriot Hall will
be state-of-the art, replacing
the old building while pre-
serving some of the exterior
walls and a plaque commem-
orating veterans The plaque
will be placed next to the
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Lexington Avenue. The reno-
vation will increase the square
footage to 30,000 square
feet from the current 22,000
square feet, a quarter of which
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ademic space and closes off to
students.
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will be a two-story-tall gym
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collapsible stadium seating
for 480 people. Looking over
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lab space for a new Emergen-
Rendering courtesy of Clatsop Community College
The new Patriot Hall gym will span all three stories of the building, including basketball
courts and collapsible seating at the bottom, cardio and other weight equipment on the
second floor and a running track ringing the top.
cy Medical Technician pro-
gram the college hopes to add
with the building, along with
an exercise physiology degree
and substance abuse counsel-
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Surviving an
earthquake
A state seismic report from
2007 gave Towler and Patri-
ot halls a 100 percent chance
of collapse in a major earth-
quake. Parts of Patriot Hall’s
foundation stick up out of the
ground, as the ground under-
neath has settled over the de-
cades.
The college has tried sev-
eral times to move its campus
elsewhere, with voters turning
down bond measures in ex-
cess of $20 million in 2002,
2006 and 2007. It ultimately
broke ground on the Jerome
Campus Redevelopment Proj-
ect during its 50th birthday in
2008, with $22 million gath-
ered from the Oregon Legis-
lature and other outside inves-
tors, and a bond measure on
that year’s November ballot
for another $5 million.
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struction of Columbia Hall
in 2008. The second was the
redevelopment of Towler Hall
in 2010.
Half of the $16 million
Patriot Hall project is being
funded by state bonds set
aside for the college by the
Oregon Legislature in 2013.
In the November general
election, 58 percent of voters
approved up to $8.2 million in
local bonds as a match.
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On the roof of Patriot
Hall, solar panels and turbine
ventilators heat water for the
building, before it is pumped
to the mechanical room below
to provide hot water. SRG
architect Kent Duffy said a
similar system provides 70
percent of the water needs for
a 90,000-square-foot student
housing building in Eugene.
Patriot Hall could be heat-
ed by water, he added, and
backed up by a gas system.
The building will rely
largely on ambient light, with
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ing throughout. SRG plans
on redeveloping many of the
windows on the west side of
the building, with new glass
windows along the walkway
between Columbia and Towl-
er halls and shafts that allow
passers-by on the third level
of the building to look down
into classrooms. Some win-
dows near the bottom will be
replaced by operable glazed
dampers that can ventilate the
building in the summer and
insulate it during the winter.
Bridge Vista: It prohibits new condos, hotels over the water
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But Nemlowill, like Mayor
Arline LaMear had suggested
earlier this month, said the Riv-
erfront Vision Plan had broad
public input when it was ap-
proved in 2009 and questioned
whether the residents who had
spoken so strongly against
Bridge Vista represented the full
range of opinion in the city.
“It’s too bad that it was ad-
opted so long ago, because it
seems like people have forgot-
ten what the people said when it
was adopted,” she said. “And so
I think the people did speak with
the Riverfront Vision Plan.”
Under Bridge Vista, new de-
velopment over the river near
the bridge and just west of Sec-
ond Street can be no higher than
the riverbank.
Projects over the river in oth-
er portions of Uniontown can
have buildings up to 35 feet high
and 150 feet wide with 40-foot
corridors in between to preserve
views. On shore, new buildings
can be up to 45 feet high with
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Bridge Vista prohibits new
condominiums, hotels, bars
and restaurants, and fuel termi-
nals over the water. A pedestri-
an-friendly zone and broader
commercial uses will be allowed
along the shore.
Earlier this month, the coun-
cil had discussed an amendment
to Bridge Vista to ensure no
variances would be granted to
building height restrictions over
the river. But city staff discov-
ered that a prohibition against
variances was already part of the
draft.
Councilor Cindy Price, who
had preferred greater develop-
ment restrictions, said she sup-
ports Bridge Vista because it
takes “a great big step towards
what I think everyone wants.”
The City Council voted 3-2
against a motion by Price to di-
rect the Planning Commission
to review expanded protections
for three areas in Uniontown.
Price and Herzig voted for
the motion, while LaMear,
Nemlowill and Councilor Russ
Warr voted against the move.
In other business Monday:
• Mayor LaMear presented
Justin Power with the Dr. Ed-
ward Harvey award for historic
preservation for Power’s reno-
vation of the historic Thompson
House on 38th Street in Up-
pertown.
• The City Council accepted
the city’s designation as an Or-
egon Heritage All-Star Commu-
nity. The Oregon Heritage Com-
mission recognizes cities that
broadly preserve local heritage.
• Acting as the Astoria De-
velopment Commission, coun-
cilors approved a $150,000 loan
to developer Paul Caruana for
exterior improvements to the
Astor Hotel.
Caruana, who, with a busi-
ness partner, had previously re-
ceived a $346,000 loan for exte-
rior repairs, would have to repay
the loan within seven years.
Built in 1924, the hotel has
had a troubled past and is being
used mostly for low-income
housing.
“It hasn’t looked like what
I’m going to make it look like
since the ’20s,” Caruana said of
the restoration.
Caruana, who is purchasing
the Astor Hotel outright, will
have to keep a minimum of 50
percent of the units in affordable
housing through the life of the
loan.
The Astoria Development
Commission approved the loan
in a 4-1 vote. Herzig voted “no”
because he did not want to see
the number of affordable units
potentially decline.
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Pot: Lawmakers plan to tackle early sales
and recreational pot taxes in separate bills
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dispensaries to temporarily
sell pot to recreational cus-
Ferrioli threw his sup- tomers until the launch of the
port behind a proposal by recreational pot retail system
the League of Oregon Cities sometime in 2016. Under
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cities and counties that voted and older can legally grow
against Measure 91 to pass and possess limited amounts
bans on medical and recre- of pot and cannabis products
ational pot businesses. Under starting July 1.
the compromise proposal,
Lawmakers plan to tackle
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counties where voters ap- pot taxes in separate bills, and
proved Measure 91 could also took public testimony on the
vote to pass bans, but those taxation bill on Monday eve-
would be referred to the vot- ning. House Bill 2041 would
ers.
replace the weight-based ex-
Both provisions were in- cise tax the state would charge
cluded in the bill that passed growers under Measure 91
out of the House-Senate com- with a sales tax on the drug.
mittee Monday evening.
Several lawmakers on the
House Bill 3400 will re- committee said after the vote
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Oregon House.
will likely work for years to
Meanwhile,
lawmakers shape Oregon’s new legal pot
on the committee will con- system.
tinue to work on some of the
“You can ask the ques-
proposals that were left out tion, how can you be called
of House Bill 3400. That in- on to legislate a culture
cludes a proposal by Ferri- change?” said Rep. Carl Wil-
oli, with support from Sen. son, R-Grants Pass. “We’ll be
Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, working on this forever.”
to allow medical marijuana
The co-chairs of the com-
mittee, Rep. Ann Lininger,
D-Lake Oswego, and Sen.
Ginny Burdick, D-Portland,
thanked other lawmakers,
members of the marijuana in-
dustry and medical marijuana
advocates for their hard work
on the legislation.
Still, not everyone was
happy with the bill. Rep. Pe-
ter Buckley, D-Ashland, said
he voted out of courtesy to
move House Bill 3400 to the
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he remained frustrated by the
process by which the commit-
tee drafted the bill.
“It’s been dysfunctional in
many respects,” Buckley said,
adding that he was dismayed
at the move by a special Sen-
ate committee last month to
push through its own bill to
regulate medical marijuana.
Most of that bill was folded
into House Bill 3400. “I think
the public has been shut out of
this process to a great extent,”
Buckley said.
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