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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.
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