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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2016
Planning Commission approves
new pot store at Cannery Lofts
Many condo
residents objected
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Over the objections of sev-
eral residents, the Astoria Plan-
ning Commission on Tuesday
approved a conditional use per-
mit for a marijuana store on the
ground floor of the Cannery
Lofts.
Daryl Bell and Terrell Buck-
ner are opening a marijuana
store called West, which they
said would be upscale and a
good neighbor to the condos
above.
Bell had approached Ted
Forcum, who owns a condo and
the commercial spaces on the
ground floor, about opening a
marijuana store and art gallery.
A city staff report said the gal-
lery portion had been dropped.
The storefront is in a tourist-ori-
ented retail zone, where at least
half of business must be geared
toward visitors. Classified as
a nontourist retail store, West
needed a conditional use permit.
Bell is also trying to open a
West location on East Harbor
Drive in Warrenton. The War-
renton City Commission voted
to restrict marijuana businesses
east of U.S. Highway 101.
Bell’s project, CBDB Devel-
opments, was grandfathered in
on the west side of the highway,
having been started before the
restriction. But under another
city ordinance passed last sum-
mer, CBDB can only sell to
medical cardholders.
Bell is also trying to open
stores in Rockaway Beach and
Pacific City. He said the Asto-
ria store will be the first, likely
opening in early December.
Residents opposed
More than 30 residents of
the Cannery Lofts signed a peti-
tion opposing the store. Many
came out Tuesday to share their
concerns over issues with park-
ing, security, vagrancy and
decreased home values they said
the store will cause.
“I really don’t want to have
this parked in my home,” said
Nancy Walsh, sharing a com-
mon sentiment among residents
that the marijuana store does
not fit in such a residential area.
Forcum, a chiropractor in
Portland, said he has had issues
renting out the commercial
spaces because of water leak-
age from the condos above.
After turning down 12 requests
Windermere Real Estate
The Astoria Planning Commission has approved a marijuana store on the ground
floor of the Cannery Lofts.
to place dispensaries on the
ground floor of the condo
buildings, he said, he was
approached by Bell, liked the
art gallery portion, understood
the medical benefits of mar-
ijuana and found no adverse
impacts by other dispensaries
located in ground-floor com-
mercial spaces.
Heather Hansen, director of
the county’s land use depart-
ment and a renter at the con-
dos, said there is no reasonable
way to mitigate the negative
impact of a marijuana store in a
U-shaped building where many
of the residents will have to reg-
ularly see the business.
“There are 30 front doors
that will be impacted,” she said.
Customers cannot smoke at
marijuana stores. But residents
were concerned about people
shopping at West and smoking
along the Astoria Riverwalk,
along with the store’s custom-
ers worsening the vagrancy res-
idents said is already an issue at
the condos.
Buckner said those issues are
already happening at the build-
ing and would not be worsened
by the store. He and Bell argued
that employees and the required
lighting and security cameras
would improve the security of
the area, while adding to the
tenant mix in the condo’s com-
mercial spaces.
Residents argued the store
would make parking around
the condos more difficult, when
the parking lot is already filling
up at times. Forcum said the
parking lot is at less than half
capacity on average, and that
the parking issues are caused
by ongoing construction to fix
the buildings’ structural issues.
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of putting a medical mari-
juana dispensary in a residen-
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sioners have limits in how
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permit.
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