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Housing: Joint projects with Seaside are a possibility
design questions and recent
testimony from the Cannon
Beach Garden Club opposing
development at the children’s
center or Tolovana Hall.
“Change is difficult and
it’s quite easy for issues to be
somewhat framed in, ‘not in
my backyard,’” Cadwallader
said, adding that resident input
should be weighed with the
need for affordable housing and
a community with diverse fam-
ily numbers, incomes and ages.
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Johnson of Duane Johnson
Real Estate; Todd Johnston,
Northwest Oregon Housing
Authority executive director;
Ken McQuhae, retired engi-
neer and resident; Dave Nor-
stedt, Martin Hospitality vice
president of operations; Bran-
don Ogilvie, a local contractor;
Sheri Russell, Columbia Bank
branch manager; City Manager
Brant Kucera; and council liai-
son Melissa Cadwallader.
Members focused on rental
housing on city-owned land for
year-round, full-time employ-
ees. The task group prioritized
“the missing middle,” said
consultant Terri Silvis.
The majority of the local
workforce has incomes too
high to qualify for traditional
public subsidies, the report
stated. Households must make
no more than 60 percent of
area median income to qualify
for publicly subsidized hous-
ing, About 45 percent of full-
time employees in Cannon
Beach earn more than 60 per-
cent of area median income,
according to 2014 data.
Clatsop County 2016
median incomes are $39,500
for individuals, $45,100
for two-person households,
$50,700 for three-person
households and $56,300 for
four-person households.
Councilor George Vetter
asked how the housing would
remain affordable.
“Within fair housing law,
you can create parameters
of which the housing would
serve, create regulatory agree-
Submitted Photo
The Cannon Beach affordable housing task force will recommend up to 10 manufactured
“park model homes,” like the one shown above from Woodburn, to be placed in the city’s
RV Park.
ments and make sure the hous-
ing serves the intended popula-
tion,” Silvis said.
RV Park,
children’s center
Recommendations
included using up to 10 spots
in the RV Park for manufac-
tured park model homes that
could be hooked into existing
water and electrical systems. If
successful, the program could
expand.
The homes could be
financed from the general fund
or borrowed funds and would
not lead to significant reve-
nue loss for the city, the report
found.
An outside vendor like
Northwest Oregon Housing
Authority could screen poten-
tial tenants. Other communi-
ties’ screening criteria gave
housing preferences to first
responders, public employ-
ees and verified full-time local
business employees, according
to the report.
The park model homes
would be a test, Mayor Sam
Steidel said.
Vetter raised questions
about losing potential revenue
at the RV Park. The city would
collect rent from residences,
thus creating revenue, Bene-
field said.
Next steps for the RV Park
option would be addressing
financial, management and
regulatory questions, City
Planner Mark Barnes said.
The task force also recom-
mended developing the former
children’s center in Tolovana
into a small complex of nine
two-bedroom units, which
could be used by couples and
small families.
Barnes said the children’s
center property has “an extra
layer of complexity” due to
for workforce rentals.
Vetter said the affordable
housing problem is not new to
Cannon Beach.
“It’s not driven by the fact
that we don’t have enough
housing,” Vetter said. “It’s
driven by the fact that most
people who work here cannot
afford the houses that are avail-
able because the demand is
there, because of the proximity
to the ocean. … To me, to do
anything within that desirable
area is to go against the wind.”
Zoning code,
transportation
Park model homes
Other recommendations
included amending munici-
pal code to encourage mak-
ing accessory dwelling units
long-term rentals and to limit
short-term rental growth
through caps, specified neigh-
borhoods and more aggressive
enforcement.
Vetter asked if the task
force considered housing in
conjunction with Seaside.
Joint projects with Seaside
are a future possibility, Barnes
said.
“We also found ourselves
somewhat ahead or further
down the path than the com-
munity of Seaside and the
county,” Barnes said. “We felt
the need to push forward rather
than wait for them.”
With the Sunset Empire
Transit District expanding its
routes and stops, transporta-
tion could be one solution to
short-term employee housing,
the report stated. The South
Wind city-owned property on
the north side of the highway
could eventually be developed
Ben Roche from Palm Har-
bor Homes presented informa-
tion about park model homes
at the work session.
No more than 400 square
feet, park model homes are
transported on wheels as heavy
haul and are anchored in place
at the site. The homes are built
to recreational code, not res-
idential, and are blocked and
leveled on piers or blocks.
The state-regulated homes
can have customized floor
plans and can fit in with local
architecture, Roche said. Since
the homes have no storage
tanks or propane tanks, a per-
manent sewer is needed.
Palm Harbor Homes offers
Recreational Vehicle Indus-
try Association-approved park
model homes in styles that
include traditional cottage,
modern, log and lofts.
Not including delivery or
setup, cost per unit could be in
the $30,000 range for afford-
able, basic housing. Depend-
ing on amenities, the units can
be up to $70,000, Roche said.
Linkey: Local author plans signings and sales in Seaside
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Saturday of Labor Day week-
end, and went for about seven
hours on Broadway, with
the police fighting crowds of
unruly youth. “As I under-
stand it, the youngsters wanted
a rock-and-roll band to appear
on the beach,” she said.
When the band was can-
celed, crowds erupted. “They
took the lifeguard tower down
and rolled it down Broadway,”
Linkey said. “They looted,
vandalized and of course our
police department — as effi-
cient as they are — were no
match for them because it was
so small, so help from neigh-
boring cities was called in.”
The unease continued
through the weekend as more
riots followed Sunday night.
“To me, the Labor Day riot
of 1962 had the most devastat-
ing effect on the town, because
the families just took off,”
Linkey said. “They didn’t feel
safe.”
A downtown revival fol-
lowed, she said, with the par-
ticipation of the City Council,
Chamber of Commerce and
other civic entities. In the 1980s,
Quatat Park was established, the
Prom was fixed up and Down-
ing Street became a pedestrian
walkway, she said. The con-
struction of the Civic and Con-
vention Center and the found-
ing of the Sunset Empire Park
and Recreation District played a
part in the city’s revival.
The park and rec dis-
trict was founded, she added,
because without a natatorium
along Broadway, residents
sought a place to swim other
than motels or private pools.
Return to the beach
Linkey raised her family
in south Laguna Beach, Cal-
ifornia. After the death of her
husband, she returned to Sea-
side, where she has lived since,
working in the insurance busi-
ness, and for a short period,
with the Seaside Signal as
an accountant. Her daughter,
Victoria, lives in Mesa, Ari-
zona, and daughter Darci lives
in Diamond Bar, California.
Linkey’s sister, Patricia, is also
a Seaside High School grad
and lives in California.
Linkey was 83 when she
began her career as a published
author, publishing “Native
American Women: Three Who
Changed History.” The book
tells the tales of Sacagawea,
Watkuese and Marie Dorion
and their roles in the explo-
ration and settlement of the
Pacific Northwest.
To conduct research for
her Seaside chronicle, Linkey
relied on her own memory and
newspaper archives.
Looking to the future,
Linkey said Seaside’s tsunami
threat is not a question of if,
but when. Although from her
home east of the highway, she
anticipates “I would proba-
bly only get my toes wet,” she
keeps a go-bag ready for emer-
gency evacuation.
Her new book is “a labor of
love,” she said. She plans sign-
ings and sales at Beach Books
and the Seaside Public Library.
“When I graduated from
high school I had one year of
college at Oregon State Uni-
versity, I had one thought: get
out of Seaside. There was noth-
ing here for young people. It’s
amazing that we’ve all got out
— and we’ve all come back.”
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