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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016 Seaside voters to decide on fate of cannabis tax initiative Question goes on November ballot By R.J. MARX and DAVE FISHER The Daily Astorian SEASIDE — A ballot ini- tiative that proposes a 3 per- cent tax on the sale of mar- ijuana products by Seaside recreational marijuana retail- ers was approved unanimously by the Seaside City Council on Monday. As a result, voters will have one more question to decide this November. Retail sales would be sub- ject to the tax. State law man- dates local taxes may not be imposed on medical marijuana patients or caregivers. Last fall, Seaside city coun- cilors approved retail sales at licensed medical mari- juana dispensaries. High- way 420, Cannabis Nation and Oasis Cannabis retailers are licensed within the city and regulated by the Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Oregon now charges a temporary 25 percent state tax on retail sales of recre- ational marijuana from med- ical marijuana dispensaries. The state tax will be reduced to 17 percent once regula- tory controls are in place. Of state tax revenue from the retail sale of cannabis, 10 percent will be trans- ferred to cities to “assist local law enforcement in performing its duties.” After July 1, 2017, revenues will be distributed proportion- ately based on the number of licenses issued in each city. Fifty percent of revenues will be distributed based on the number of produc- tion, processor and whole- sale licenses issued in the city, and the other 50 percent will be distributed based on the number of retail licenses issued in the city. If a city adopts an ordi- nance prohibiting the estab- lishment of any registered or licensed marijuana activ- ities, it will not be eligible to receive state marijuana tax revenues. Port ined by the state over stormwater By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Jeremy and Keri Towsey-French will open Reveille Cider- works next to the developing Reach Break Brewing in the Astoria Station at 1343 Duane St. Building owner Warren Williams will keep a small office along Duane Street. Hard cider to mix with beer in Astoria home away from home,” he said. The city reminds him of the grittier, more authentic ver- sion of the Portland he moved to in 1997, he said, and of the similarly sized town of Black- By EDWARD STRATTON foot, Idaho, where he grew up. The Daily Astorian Towsey-French knew Larry Cary, owner of Pilot Don’t prefer beer? House Distilling across Duane The Astoria Planning Com- Street from Astoria Station, mission on Tuesday approved and inquired about space. Cary a new hard cider house put him in touch with Warren downtown. Williams, owner of Astoria Jeremy Towsey-French and Station. Along with the brew- his wife, Keri, will open Rev- ery and cider house, Williams eille Ciderworks also wants to put inside 684 square food carts in the lot. feet of the Asto- Towsey-French ria Station, a next- said he hopes to door neighbor to the open Reveille by developing Reach October, with a Break Brewing. 7-barrel cider house, Towsey-French, a capacity he hopes speaking on behalf will double within of his project, said a year. The cider he and his wife had house will receive a conversation two Jeremy Towsey- juices from growers French years ago about in the Hood River how she doesn’t like Valley, fermenting beer. He said the conversation and conditioning them over a eventually turned to opening a three- to four-week period. cider house. Reveille will have a tap “I am a person who likes room with two of its own vari- to work with his hands,” said eties, four other guest ciders Towsey-French, a beer ai- from throughout the region and cionado and former program some on-site bottling. Opening manager in the technology with Belgian and India pale industry. ciders on tap, Towsey-French Reveille Ciderworks is said he is looking to experi- named after the French term ment and make many unique for a bugle call used to wake small batches, along with a military personnel, prisoners, nonalcoholic variety. boy scouts and other groups “In the lab, I’ve got a at sunrise. Towsey-French peach blend,” he said. “We’re said he got his inspiration after deinitely doing some fruit waking one morning and hear- blends. ing an epiphanic call toward “Our goal is to help Asto- his new profession. ria have more access to cider,” “Astoria’s always been a he said. Another feature in Astoria Station project The state Department of Environmental Quality has ined the Port of Asto- ria $36,916 for failing to conduct required stormwa- ter monitoring at the Port’s central waterfront and north Tongue Point facilities during the 2014-15 moni- toring year and for failing to timely ile required reports in violation of stormwater dis- charge permits. In a release Tuesday, the department said it “issued the penalty because monitor- ing stormwater discharge is essential for DEQ to deter- mine whether the Port’s stormwater treatment tech- nology is adequate to control pollutants. Without monitor- ing data, DEQ cannot ana- lyze potential harmful envi- ronmental consequences from stormwater discharge.” At a meeting earlier this month, Port Executive Direc- tor Jim Knight said test- ing was performed at North Tongue Point, but there were errors in the information reported to the state. “On the face of it, we will want to challenge this,” he said. “We have provided them the reports. They were aware of the issues.” The state previously penalized the Port in 2013 and 2015 for failing to com- ply with stormwater mon- itoring requirements. In determining the penalty amount, the state consid- ered the Port’s efforts to cor- rect the reporting violations by submitting the required reports. The Port of Astoria has until Aug. 11 to appeal the penalty. Food and beverage carts permitted at Astoria Airport By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — The City Commission approved an ordinance Tuesday per- mitting mobile food and bev- erage carts to do business in the general industrial zoning district and serve people at the Astoria Regional Airport. The code amendment is expected to make life easier for people who work in the area — including U.S. Coast Guard servicemembers and employ- ees of Lektro and Recology — and may not have time during the day to leave their work- place, drive into town, buy a meal, enjoy it and drive back. The decision will also allow The Lunch Wagon, an existing food cart that sells sandwiches, to remain in place. The cart — which opened in the spring and is growing by word of mouth — currently operates on a temporary variance. Though the Planning Commission didn’t take action on the amendment before kicking it up to the city commissioners, several members expressed concern that food carts would enjoy an unfair advantage over brick-and-mortar establish- ments that have more over- head and pay more taxes. Some balked at the very idea of food carts, fearing that allowing them would cause them to multiply and become unsightly. At a City Commission meeting earlier this month, however, Coast Guard ofi- cials and representatives from Lektro and the Port of Astoria, which owns the air- port, testiied to the bene- it of having such vendors in the district. City staff sup- ported the concept and rec- ommended the commission adopt the ordinance, which will go into effect 30 days from passage. W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 NOW OPEN & WE NEED YOU! 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