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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015
‘Frankendunes’ need
grading, homeowners say
‘What is a favorite
summer memory?’
By DANI PALMER
EO Media Group
CANNON BEACH — A
new plan to grade sand dunes
next to Breakers Point could
make the beach safer, restore
views and improve quality of
life, according to the many
homeowners who came to last
Thursday’s Planning Com-
mission meeting.
About 20 people stood up
to show support for the dune
grading project, including a
handful of residents who do
not live in Breakers Point.
“It’s been tragic,” said Le-
land Larson, a Breakers Point
resident. “It’s like some form
of water torture to see the
gradual erosion of views and
the quality of life.”
“Going on vacation, on a cruise to
the Bahamas. Loved getting away
and getting some rest and relax-
ation. We went to a lot of places
ashore. Just all of it was special.”
Bonnie Hellberg, Astoria
“We just made one recently. Our
family went to a trap shooting event
in Olympia, Wash. My boys partic-
ipated and learned a lot, and there
were a lot of great trap shooters
there who took the time to help our
boys out.”
An experimental plan
Rather than move the un-
precedented 73,400 cubic
yards of sand originally pro-
posed and then denied by
the City Council in March,
Breakers Point is asking for
a conditional use permit to
grade 13,700 cubic yards west
of the development, south of
West Fifth Street and north of
Ecola Creek.
“There’s been a lot of sand
accumulation going on,” Tom
Horning, a geologist with
Seaside’s Horning Geoscienc-
es said.
Paul Williams, Astoria
“Six weeks in Denmark when
I was 19. I met my grandmother’s
mother on the Tobiesen family farm,
which had been in the family for
200 years.”
Norm Davis, Astoria
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resident, Breakers Point
Normally the sand that is
piling up to nearly 50-foot-
tall dunes would blow into the
forest, but it i s getting caught
on European beach grass, he
said .
The new Breakers Point
proposal includes deposit-
ing graded material onto the
middle-upper beach area to
the west, to be reincorporat-
ed into the littoral drift, and
the planting of native species
to restore native dune prairie
ecosystems.
A fence would be placed
around some of the vegetation
to deter elk, though Bruce
Francis, property manager of
the homeowners association,
said that aspect may be nego-
tiable.
Breakers Point staff and
residents are calling the
changes a restoration to “what
once was.” The European
grass was a man-made prob-
lem, they say, caused by the
planting of the non-native
grass in the area.
The Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife’s Newport
of¿ ce lent a letter of support
for the project.
Commissioner Joseph Ber-
nt asked how long the grading
would last. Horning answered
eight to 10 years.
Commission
President
Bob Lundy expressed con-
cerns about sand blowing
onto neighboring properties,
but was told it would go into
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the forest.
Commissioner Lisa Kerr
asked if the Breakers Point
grading request would be
one of several over the next
few years to eventually com-
plete the originally proposed
73,400 cubic yards.
If it works, Francis said,
then Breakers Point would
likely come back with sub-
sequent requests to stop sand
inundation.
“I’m anticipating success
... to be able to continue resto-
ration,” he said.
Kerr requested a time line
to judge that success. Francis
said it would take about six
months to a year.
Hours of testimony
Many who spoke at the
¿ ve-hour meeting said they
themselves or loved ones are
unable to traverse the dunes
anymore because they are so
high.
“What used to be a fair-
ly leisurely stroll along the
dunes, and then a gentle de-
scent to the beach, is no lon-
ger possible for me,” Break-
ers Point resident Michael
“Mick” French said. After
recent knee surgery, that de-
scent is now steep and dif¿ -
cult to navigate, he added.
Breakers Point attorney
Dean Alterman said the grow-
ing dunes not only impact the
development’s homeowners,
but other Cannon Beach res-
idents and visitors.
French said some in Can-
non Beach feel the develop-
ment should never have been
built in the 1980s, but added
that is an “old, invalid argu-
ment.” If taken seriously, he
said, much of the city never
should have been developed.
Because the city approved
Breakers Point after a long
development process, Albert
Thompson, a Breakers Point
resident said, it now has a
moral obligation to the resi-
dents.
If sand blew onto the
streets, he added, city staff
would remove it. The same
safety measures should be
implemented at the beach, as
well.
Other residents talked
about beach hazards, includ-
ing being unable to monitor
their children at play and fears
that a dune may one day bury
a child.
The spectacular views
Breakers Point provides were
also mentioned numerous
times, views some residents
feel they have invested in and
subsequently watched disap-
pear.
Susan Neuwirth said she
used to “laugh at the rich,
spoiled people at Breakers
Point because they wanted
their stupid view,” but then
she accepted a job as a sec-
retary for the development’s
of¿ ce and saw the effect ¿ rst-
hand.
“It’s like being buried
alive,” Neuwirth, who does
not live in Breakers Point,
said. “It’s literally like being
in a cof¿ n.”
If the “frankendunes” had
been naturally caused, she
said, she wouldn’t feel the
same.
Activists rappel off Portland
bridge to stop Shell icebreaker
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‘It’s like some form of water torture
to see the gradual erosion of
views and the quality of life.’
PORTLAND — Environ-
mental activists rappelled off
Portland’s tallest bridge early
Wednesday in an effort to stop
a Shell Oil Arctic icebreaker
from leaving the city.
Thirteen protesters dan-
gled from the St. Johns Bridge
while another 13 remained on
the bridge as lookouts. Green-
peace USA executive director
Annie Leonard said the activ-
ists have enough water and
food to last for days, and can
hoist themselves to allow oth-
er marine traf¿ c to pass.
The Royal Dutch Shell
PLC icebreaker Fennica ar-
rived in Portland for repairs
last week. The vessel was
damaged earlier this month
in the Aleutian Islands when
it struck an underwater ob-
struction, tearing a gash in its
hull.
The icebreaker is a vital
part of Shell’s exploration
and spill-response plan off
Alaska’s northwest coast. It
protects Shell’s fleet from
ice and carries equipment
that can stop gushing oil.
Opponents of Arctic drill-
ing worry that the area’s
remoteness and rough con-
ditions will hamper cleanup
efforts should a spill occur.
“These climbers hanging
on the bridge really are at this
point the last thing standing
between Shell’s plan to drill
in the Arctic and the Arctic,”
Leonard said.
Shell spokesman Curtis
Smith said in an email the
Fennica will return to Alaska
once ¿ nal preparations are
complete.
passengers were transported
to Columbia Memorial Hospi-
tal, with one of the passengers
having injuries. The driver,
Tara Lynne Killam, 34, Port-
land, was cited for reckless
driving.
DUII arrest
• At 2:17 a.m. Sunday,
Oregon State Police arrest-
ed Jamey Shane Wilson, 21,
Astoria, for driving under
the inÀ uence of intoxicants
and reckless driving on U.S.
Highway 101 in Warrenton.
Wilson’s blood alcohol con-
tent was measured at 0.14 per-
cent, according to OSP.
On the record
Crash
• At 4:57 p.m. Sunday, Or-
egon State Police responded
to a driving complaint on a
vehicle traveling westbound
on U.S. Highway 30. Short-
ly after, the vehicle drove off
the roadway and crashed into
a hillside. The driver and two
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