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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Cannon Beach’s zoning code would limit retail pot sales
Outlets would
be few and far
between
By NANCY McCARTHY
For EO Media Group
CANNON BEACH —
Even if the Cannon Beach City
Council decides to allow retail
marijuana outlets in town,
there would be few locations
available for them.
The council will discuss the
issue at the council meeting 7
p.m. Tuesday in City Hall. If
the council decides not to allow
retail outlets, the issue must be
submitted to voters, according
to state law. The vote would
occur next November.
City Planner Mark Barnes
told the City Council during
January’s work session that
only the city’s limited commer-
cial zone would allow a recre-
ational or medical dispensary
or retail store as an outright
use that could be permitted
Business Park and
without a public
Coaster Construc-
hearing.
tion.
Expansion
Other
zones
of the zone would
would require a
require the council
conditional
use
to approve amend-
permit,
which
ments to the city’s
means the appli-
zoning ordinance.
cant would have
Marijuana-re-
to appear before
lated businesses —
the city’s Planning
stores that sell para-
Commission
to
Mark
phernalia but not
receive approval.
Barnes
marijuana — would
The city has
three areas with the commer- be outright uses in both zones,
cial zone: downtown, midtown according to Barnes.
“They could be approved
and Tolovana Park. The
unless
area covered by this zoning administratively,
includes 28.4 acres and 114 someone goes into an existing
building and makes exte-
lots.
Marijuana grow operations rior changes,” Barnes added.
probably would be allowed “The changes would go to the
under the city’s general design review board, and there
commercial zone, which would be a public hearing to
permits “plant nurseries,” determine whether the changes
Barnes said. Cannon Beach’s meet regulations. We have
only general zone is on the a pretty tightly written sign
east side of U.S. Highway code.”
The
Oregon
legisla-
101. The zone covers 5.2 acres
and includes the city’s public tion that makes it legal to
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substation, Cannon Beach juana, prohibits medical mari-
vs. the beach, for instance,”
Barnes said.
During the discussion,
Vetter suggested that the
council should “not take
further steps to stop this.”
Because local voters over-
whelmingly voted to legalize
marijuana use, the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission
will regulate the sales and
Cannon Beach is so small,
“I’m not convinced we need to
do anything,” Vetter said.
“I’m not sure this town can
support a year-round business,
and I don’t see that we should
spend too much time on this,”
he added.
But Mayor Sam Steidel
said a buffer should be put
in place to “protect us” if the
council allows marijuana sales
in town.
City Councilor Mike
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that marijuana outlets would
impact the “character of the
town.”
“I’m not sure that people
who voted to decriminalize
juana dispensaries and recre-
ational marijuana retailers
and wholesalers within 1,000
feet of a school. This would
include private and public
schools where attendance is
mandatory.
Because Cannon Beach
doesn’t have a school, the
buffer
wouldn’t
apply.
However, once the proposed
Cannon Beach Academy
charter school opens, the
buffer would go into effect and
engulf all of midtown.
The law allows cities
to impose other buffers. If
1,000-foot buffers are placed
at the beach and around all
of the parks would elimi-
nate all possible locations for
marijuana outlets west of the
highway.
City Councilor George
Vetter asked Barnes if the city
could select certain parks to
buffer.
“We would have to make
some logical explanation about
why we treated one differently
than another – a playground
marijuana envisioned stores
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Councilor Melissa Cadwal-
lader suggested that the
council decide which locations
the outlets should be limited to
and then let them be subject to
state regulations.
Steidel noted that the city’s
business license regulations
prohibit sales of items banned
by federal law, including
marijuana.
City Manager Brant Kucera
asked the council if it wanted
to change the business license.
Leaving it alone, at least until
the courts rule on the question,
would provide “perfectly good
protection right there,” Kucera
said.
“It’s all or nothing,” Kucera
told the council. Not changing
the business license “would
ensure that nothing (marijuana
stores) gets put in.”
However, he added, if
even only one retail outlet
is allowed, the language
regarding the federal law
would have to be changed.
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Associated Press
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Oregonians.
The Republican minority roughly $2.6 billion-annual
has been especially vocal boost in corporate tax collec-
about concerns that there tions for the state if voters
isn’t enough time to solve big pass I-28. While that extra
issues. While many Demo- cash would offer much-
crats agree, they say a number needed help to public educa-
of ballot measures proposed tion, health care and senior
for November are forcing services, opponents say the
costs to private-sector jobs
them to act.
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money people earn and the before, and this year will
taxes they owe, to how much likely be no different. So far,
they pay to keep their homes unions appear hard-pressed
warm — and even where they to go to the ballot regardless,
leaving business groups to
buy booze.
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proposals, alternatives and the measure entirely and
lawmakers without anyone at
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compromise.
Minimum wage
Ballot Proposals: Two
separate initiatives, backed
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by labor groups, take similar
Ballot Proposals: There
approaches to raising the are four separate, yet similar
statewide $9.25 hourly coal-to-clean
initiatives
minimum wage. “Orego- proposed by Renew Oregon,
nians for 15” wants a $15 a consortium of environ-
per-hour minimum by 2019, mental groups. Each initia-
while “Raise the Wage” tive requires Oregon utili-
seeks $13.50 by 2018. ties to phase out coal power
Wage increases under both by 2030 and mandates that
proposals would be statewide half of the energy served to
and implemented gradually, customers come from renew-
ables by 2040, double the
starting January 2017.
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tive: Gov. Kate Brown’s those core principals is where
proposal is touted as an the initiatives differ. One
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would go up slightly to $9.75 tive: House Bill 4036 is the
statewide. By 2022, the Port- alternative package nego-
land area’s minimum would tiated behind closed doors
be set at $14.50 and the rest between Renew Oregon
backers and the state’s two
of the state at $13.25.
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lawmakers pass a minimum the effects of climate change,
wage package next month, but state utility regulators
there are no guarantees the aren’t convinced the negoti-
two labor groups, which ated bill effectively accom-
have already been critical of plishes that. Utility regu-
certain elements of Brown’s lators are also concerned
proposal, will drop out from Oregonians would see a huge
spike in electricity costs.
the November ballot.
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are concerned that pushing
Corporate taxes
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tive Petition 28, a union- to Oregon’s energy supply
backed proposal, would raise during a 35-day session is a
the tax that large corporations public disservice.
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pay annually on their gross
sales receipts — meaning, lawmakers fail to pass the
their business activity — in negotiated proposal, Renew
Oregon. A business would Oregon has been adamant
owe a minimum $30,000- about going to the November
tax if its annual sales reach ballot.
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Associated Press
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as an alternative to the West
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crab.
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centuries. Many species have
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focus off of cod and haddock
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to light all these species in the
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Redfish are displayed at the Portland Fish Exchange in Portland, Maine. Fishermen are
being forced to start adapting more quickly to changing fish stocks in ocean and market
new species based on what is available. As a result, more former “trash” fish such as
redfish, dogfish and skate are the wave of the future in sustainable fishing.
Gulf of Maine that are delicious
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market appeal. Ray Hilborn,
a marine biologist with the
University of Washington, said
the push is unnecessary from a
sustainability point of view.
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traditional species are not
sustainable, then they don’t
know much and have not
looked very hard,” Hilborn
said. “There is plenty of cod,
haddock, salmon, tuna and
shrimp in the world that is
sustainably harvested.”
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eries specialist with the Coastal
Resources Center at the Univer-
sity of Rhode Island, said the
shift toward what toward what
she called “underloved” species
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and providing local protein
sources in New England.
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