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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
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More inspections
The city inspects homes on
a ive-year cycle.
“The problem for most of
our enforcement efforts is we
don’t ind out about these vio-
lations until we do an audit,
and then we ind out about a
big batch,” Barnes said. “Some
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more than a dozen violations.”
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building oficial is needed, but
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position.
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.”
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pay more if they plan to rent
their homes short-term to help
pay for mortgages, he said.
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