THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015
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Cannon Beach to leave dune-grading ordinance as is
No change
while city
develops sand
management
plan
By DANI PALMER
EO Media Group
CANNON BEACH — The
Cannon Beach City Council
has voted to table an amend-
ment to city code that would
forbid foredune grading until
a sand management plan is
complete in 18 to 24 months.
It was a win — for now — for
homeowners who say they
have the right to grade.
Planning
Commission
members had voted to rec-
ommend the amendment to
the Oceanfront Management
Overlay Zone in late October.
Commissioner Lisa Kerr said
the city’s sand management
study may conclude that leav-
ing the dunes alone is best, or
that grading is the right choice.
Homeowners say the pro-
posed prohibition equates to
a moratorium violating state
guidelines. Dean Alterman,
Breakers Point Homeowners
Association’s attorney, of-
fered alternatives, including a
“spacing out of impact.”
“If the two years becomes
three or four or ¿ve or never,
if a future City Council de-
cides it wants to do something
else, that leaves the Breakers
Point homeowners in a very
bad position with the sand
that’s coming in,” he said.
Breakers Point home-
owner Frank Patrick said the
prohibition would prevent
homeowners from their right
to public access. He cited an
‘That blasted grass has
gotten out of control.’
Frank Patrick, Breakers
Point homeowner
already inaccessible access
for emergency vehicles on
the property. Foredune grad-
ing, affecting Breakers Point
and the presidential streets
in Cannon Beach, is done to
maintain views or prevent in-
undation.
With the prohibition set
to potentially become reali-
ty, City Planner Mark Barnes
said he received an application
for foredune grading earlier in
the day. Breakers Point was
recently granted permission
to grade 13,700-cubic-yards
of sand and indicated plans to
seek permits for more in the
near future.
Friends of the Dunes’ Clay
Newton said he interpreted
homeowners’ reaction as fear.
“None of us know what that
new plan will say,” he said.
Without knowing the im-
pact of the grading, Newton
said he wants a regulated pro-
cess before any more steps are
taken to grade dunes.
“The folks that are the pro-
ponents of this are the friends
of the dunes,” said Breakers
Point homeowner Ed Stone.
“Myself and the rest of the
Johnson: ‘One of the greatest things I have done’
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Johnson had marched in
the band since seventh grade,
and played tenor saxophone
in the high school jazz and
concert bands. He marched in
his freshman year and played
basketball, then changed di-
rection as a sophomore to play
football and basketball.
Amid his dif¿culties, IHS
music teacher Rachel Lake en-
couraged him to audition for
drum major, the bandsman who
conducts the musicians and di-
rects the marching movements.
It would mean trading his sax-
ophone for a baton. And taking
responsibility as a leader.
At the end of his sophomore
year, facing competition from
two soon-to-be seniors, Johnson
stepped up. He gave a speech
about his ambitions and con-
ducted a piece (“I was a terrible
conductor — I have learned a
lot since then”) then waited for
every band student in grades six
through 11 to cast their vote.
They chose him.
“It’s one of the greatest
things I have done,” he said. “I
¿nally found something I was
passionate about, being drum
major in a marching band.”
Lake is thrilled to have a
motivated student to help her
choreograph ¿eld shows — one
who has the skill and organiza-
tional ability to lead practices
and classes when she is away.
“It makes the marching band
a lot easier for me,” said Lake,
who has been teaching 11 years,
the last eight at Ilwaco.
“He comes up with a lot
of ideas,” she added. “He has
a great sense of humor. He is
very positive and extremely
cool-headed. He has a personal-
ity that everybody likes.”
Marching band is an af-
ter-school activity, not a daytime
class like concert band. Some 35
to 40 students show up to play
and march, some of whom have
just completed 90-minute sports
practices. It’s dark by the time
they leave the ¿eld.
A proud Lake breaks into
a broad grin as she mentions
those numbers. “I want it to be
a youth-driven program,” she
said. “The kids need to want to
be there.”
Johnson recruits for the band
and serves as its liaison with the
owners at Breakers Point are
the neighbors of the dunes and
they’re causing us monumen-
tal problems.”
He noted his dune has
grown about 100 yards hori-
zontally and 52 feet vertically.
When he moved into his up-
stairs condo on Ecola Creek,
he could see the beach. Now,
he can’t.
“That blasted grass has
gotten out of control,” Patrick
said, and will grow another
15 feet in the time it takes to
complete the sand manage-
ment plan.
Breakers Point Home-
owners Association Property
Manager Bruce Francis said
he didn’t understand why the
Planning Commission even
felt the need to amend the or-
dinance. To acquire a permit
for dune grading would take
as long as the city needs to ¿n-
ish the sand management plan.
Councilor Mike Bene¿eld
said the current Land Use
Board of Appeals approved
sand management plan is out
of date and Cannon Beach
needs “a breather” while it’s
updated. He noted a gentle-
man’s agreement to not dune
grade was ignored in the past.
“I’m not opposed to grad-
ing,” he said. “I’m just op-
posed to doing something
without knowing what its ef-
fect is going to be.”
Councilor Wendy Higgins
said the city does need a com-
pleted study, but added that
allowing the sand to further
build will only make the situ-
ation worse.
The council voted 3-2 on
Nov. 3 to table the discussion.
Higgins, Councilor George
Vetter and Mayor Sam Steidel
voted ‘yes.’ Councilors Bene-
¿eld and Melissa Cadwallader
voted ‘no.’
Mill tour
Michael Johnson,
drum major for
the Ilwaco, Wash,
marching band,
leads an unusual
dance routine
called “Thrill-
er” during the
halftime show at
a recent Ilwaco
home football
game. Johnson
credits his lead-
ership position
with bringing his
life back on a
positive track.
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Media Group
leadership class, whose students
coordinate IHS activities. Randy
Bloom, who teaches the class,
said Johnson contributes posi-
tive decision-making.
“I have asked him to step up
many times, and he has never let
me down,” Bloom said. “I believe
that his role as drum major has al-
lowed him to believe in himself
and become the leader that has
always been inside of him.”
Johnson said he has been
stimulated by attending a drum
major camp at the University of
Washington the past two sum-
mers, honing his craft while
talking with other band leaders
about how they develop their
programs.
“I have a lot of big ideas, but
don’t necessarily know how to put
them into action,” said Johnson.
Lake said she has designed
this year’s Ilwaco ¿eld shows,
in part, to showcase Johnson’s
exuberance.
His joy of performing is ev-
ident. “I want to be out there,”
he said. “I want to be in front of
a crowd.”
He and Lake have dreamed
up a “Pirates of the Caribbean”
theme for the Auburn appear-
ance, and they’ll even take the
Fishermen’s pirate ship with
them (it has wheels).
After football season, it will
be time for pep band, which
plays for home basketball
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Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber
games, then they will march in
spring parades. Johnson hasn’t
identi¿ed a clear path after
graduation, though he wants to
become a music teacher, having
been inspired by Lake.
The only negative has been
less time marching with his sax-
ophone, though he still plays it
in the concert and jazz bands.
“Yes, I miss my instrument,
but for me I have the opportuni-
ty to conduct and lead the band,”
Johnson said. “I wouldn’t give
that up for the world.”
Erick Bengel/The Daily Astorian
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Warrenton’s Hampton Lumber mill Monday afternoon
as part of a larger tour through the major businesses
in her congressional district.
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