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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016 Cannon Beach may cap short-term rentals More code inspections are possible By LYRA FONTAINE The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH — Placing limits on vacation rentals, making inspections more frequent and spread- ing out permit renewals were potential changes discussed by the Cannon Beach City Coun- cil Tuesday night. The city’s strategic goal of making short-term rental regulations “clear and under- standable” is moving for- ward, but will not be complete by December, as originally planned. A cap on short-term rentals could be considered within the next months. “If our concern is not totally losing the character of this town and becoming strictly a destination resort, we should be seriously consid- ering caps,” Councilor Mike Beneield said. Transient “grandfathered” rentals and ive-year transient rentals, two types of short- term rentals, are capped at 92 permits altogether. However, the vacation home rental program — the city’s third kind of permit — has no cap and grows by about six permits per year. There are about 120 vacation rental per- mits, which have a 14-day ten- ancy limit. Neighboring cities have limits on short-term rental permits. Manzanita caps per- mits at 17.5 percent of the city’s dwelling units. Seaside caps short-term rentals within certain residential zones. If more than 20 percent of units within 100 feet of the property are vacation rentals, a Plan- ning Commission public hear- Good Samaritans rescue ishermen By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Good Samaritans rescued four ishermen who fell in the Columbia River Tuesday. Deputy Thomas Phillips of the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Ofice’s marine unit said four visiting ishermen in a 19-foot boat were trying to pull in a last crab pot near Social Secu- rity Beach on the northern tip of Clatsop Spit. “They started taking some water over the stern,” Phillps said, adding more waves sub- merged the vessel. An emergency dispatcher reported four people in the water at just before 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. The dispatcher reported they were all pulled out of the water within seven minutes by a nearby boater. “They were in the water under 15 minutes,” Phillips said. “We had just gone under- way when we were told they were already out of the water.” Phillips said the Samari- tans then beached their boat on the spit, where the ishermen were met by local ireighters. The sheriff’s ofice hooked the sunken boat with a recovery rope, he said, towing it to the Hammond Marina. Engbretson picked for Warrenton city manager Contract to be discussed at future meeting By ERICK BENGEL The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — Linda Engbretson, Warrenton’s city manager pro tem, will be hired as the new city manager. Mayor Mark Kujala announced the decision, which is still unoficial, at Tuesday’s City Commis- sion meeting in response to a question from Bruce Fran- cis, vice chairman of the Ski- panon Water Control District. Engbretson said the com- mission “has indicated they are willing to look at a one- year contract with me at the Oct. 25 meeting.” The position has been open since former City Man- ager Kurt Fritsch, resigned in June amid a controversy over the Eighth Street Dam, the center of an ongoing prop- erty rights dispute between the city and the water control district. Engbretson, the former city recorder, has been work- ing for the city more than 20 years. Her temporary role was scheduled to last four months and was due to expire soon. The decision was not unexpected. The City Commission had adopted a resolution in August laying out directives for inding Fritsch’s replace- ment, but indicated it was in no hurry to remove Engbret- son. Both commissioners and community members praised her at meetings. ing and review is Barnes said there required. was no evidence the “The goal in city could solve its Seaside was to keep affordable housing predominately res- problems through idential neigh- changing its short- borhoods from term rental pro- becoming totally gram. The current dominated with short-term rentals short-term rentals,” would not necessar- City Planner Mark ily be made avail- Mark Barnes Barnes said. “Most able by owners for people pull back in long-term rentals, their plans when they ind that he added. there will be a hearing.” However, the vacation rental program is “growing Affordable housing faster than our housing stock,” Cannon Beach’s short-term Barnes said. rentals make up about 10 per- Beneield said there is evi- cent of its 1,812 housing units, dence that short-term rent- according to a staff report. als and long-term housing are Professional Q: What is the best COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish anglers are rushing to a western Denmark fjord to catch some of the up to 80,000 farmed rainbow trout that have been accidentally released into 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 LEO FINZI Astorias Best.com C OMPARE & SAVE 25-75% ON REPAIRS COMPARED TO S TAPLES M-F 10-6 Sat 12-5 77 11th Street, Suite H Astoria, OR 503-325-2300 Pat Hanthorn and Family computer criminal sent an A: A email to my client, telling them they needed to schedule a delivery time with UPS. 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While Councilor George Vetter said annual inspections are too frequent, City Man- ager Brant Kucera said yearly inspections are a public health and welfare issue. “You are essentially run- ning a business out of your home,” he said. “It is a bene- it for the city from a liability point of view and people stay- ing there that we have regular inspections.” All potential code amend- ments will likely go to a Plan- ning Commission public hear- ing in December. Consult a www.AngelaSidlo.com www.refl exology-works.com Associated Press connected, pointing to an Ice- landic city, where a major increase in Airbnb rentals has led to increased house prices and scarce long-term rentals. Property owners can afford to pay more if they plan to rent their homes short-term to help pay for mortgages, he said. to stop my paper. What are my options? 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