10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015 Patriot Hall: Classes will be moved to Towler Hall during construction Continued from Page 1A 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 Continued from Page 1A 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- LQJ LW ZDV ÀRRUHG RYHU LQ the 1980s. “We don’t want the maintenance. We will, on the other hand, be keep- ing the basketball court.” JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian 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 WKLUGÀRRU HQWUDQFH DORQJ 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 WKHFROOHJHGHHPVXQ¿WIRUDF- ademic space and closes off to students. The main improvement will be a two-story-tall gym RQ WKH ¿UVW ÀRRU ZLWK IXOO length basketball courts and collapsible stadium seating for 480 people. Looking over the north and south sides of WKHJ\PIURPWKHVHFRQGÀRRU will be cardiovascular and weight-training areas. 7KH¿UVWÀRRUZLOOLQFOXGH 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- LQJFHUWL¿FDWHSURJUDPV 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. 7KH ¿UVW SKDVH ZDV FRQ- 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. (QHUJ\HI¿FLHQF\ 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 KLJKHI¿FLHQF\ /(' OLJKW- 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 Continued from Page 1A 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 VWHSEDFNVWRRIIVHWWKHSUR¿OH 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. Advertising in the Coast Weekend & Seaside Signal really does work! Pot: Lawmakers plan to tackle early sales and recreational pot taxes in separate bills Continued from Page 1A 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 WR DOORZ HOHFWHG RI¿FLDOV LQ Measure 91, adults age 21 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. 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