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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2016
Cannon Beach to explore the
reuse of former children’s center
Possibilities include community event space, affordable housing
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
The former Cannon Beach
Children’s Center building
is vacant, but could be used
as a community hall soon —
or eventually torn down for
affordable housing units.
As the city works toward its
goal of increasing affordable
housing, Cannon Beach city
councilors will explore how
the structurally sound building
can be used. Building housing
on the site or using the exist-
ing space for a community
hall were discussed as poten-
tial options at a work session
Tuesday.
Another idea is to use the
space as an interim commu-
nity hall while the city decides
whether affordable housing is
viable on the site.
“It’s a wonderful asset, no
matter what you decide to do
with it,” City Manager Brant
Kucera said. “It could be a
great site for affordable hous-
ing but it could also be a great
site for a community hall or
senior center.”
The building became city
property after the children’s cen-
ter closed in April due to lack of
funds and declining enrollment.
Kucera said the building
could become a maintenance
issue in terms of landscap-
ing and paying for heat in the
winter. He asked the council
to begin thinking about how
to use the building in the next
couple of months.
“From staff’s perspective,
we want to know what road
we’re going to go down,” he
said.
Housing, community
hall are options
In a letter, Cannon Beach
Children’s Center board presi-
dent Barb Knop proposed keep-
ing the building as a community
hall, suggesting that the chil-
dren’s center manage the build-
ing as a nonproit.
“We were hoping that we
could become its management
and rent it to other community
members that would use the
facility,” she said.
She said residents, from fam-
ilies to home-schooled students,
have approached her about using
the space.
Submitted Photo
The Cannon Beach Preschool and Children’s Center.
Meanwhile, the city’s afford-
able housing task force has
looked at the former children’s
center property as one potential
city-owned location for afford-
able housing, which would be
available to those who make 70
to 100 percent of area median
income.
Carleton Hart Architecture
created a concept of what nine
affordable housing units could
look like on the old children’s
center site.
Councilors discussed the
housing need, the costs of build-
ing affordable housing on the
site, and whether to prioritize
housing for irst responders.
Mayor Sam Steidel said
he would like to see an afford-
able housing plan that takes into
account the entire property, both
the children’s center building and
Tolovana Hall across the park-
ing lot.
“When I start thinking hous-
ing, I think of the entire prop-
erty,” he said, adding that Knop’s
offer is “a good interim use of the
building until we have a good
plan.”
Kucera said the city should
request a business plan for a non-
proit that wants to use the space.
Councilor Melissa Cadwal-
lader said the building is “sad and
overgrown,” but the nonproit
that could take it over should be
inancially solvent.
“Whichever direction we
go, we have an empty build-
ing,” Steidel said. “So do we just
mothball it and let it get like the
gymnasium, or do we try to pro-
pose something that can be used
as an interim?”
whether to purchase the for-
mer Cannon Beach Elemen-
tary school site by the end of
the year. The site is now owned
by the Seaside School District.
The city budget includes a
$665,000 placeholder for pur-
chase, demolition, remediation
and restoration of the school
site.
The city has hired a struc-
tural engineer, who is working
on a structural analysis of the
building, which will be done
by the end of August. The
city will also retain a build-
ing contractor to help evalu-
ate maintenance and cost of
repair, Kucera said. The elec-
trical system may need to be
upgraded and the roof is leak-
ing in the gymnasium.
According to the recently
adopted strategic plan, the
city will make a decision on
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