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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017
Developer buys Stephanie’s Cabin
Hotelier also
purchased
The Ship Inn
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Mark Hollander, the devel-
oper trying to bring a Marri-
ott Hotel to Astoria, has pur-
chased the former Stephanie’s
Cabin.
Hollander Properties LLC
purchased the property at 12
W. Marine Drive for $1 mil-
lion from Goin Fishin’ LLC,
the parent company of Stepha-
nie’s Cabin, the restaurant run
by Stephanie Dunagan since
2000. The deal was recorded
with Clatsop County’s Assess-
ment and Taxation Department
last week.
Stephanie’s Cabin closed
late last year without much
explanation besides a hand-
written note on the door from
a manager announcing the
restaurant would be closed
until further notice. Neither
Dunagan nor Hollander have
responded to requests for
comment.
Hollander bought The
Ship Inn last spring from Jill
Stokeld for $545,000, signing
a lease with her to operate the
restaurant for at least one more
year. He now owns most of the
block between First and Sec-
ond streets along the Astoria
Riverwalk, except for Joseph-
son’s Smokehouse and an
adjacent 76 gas station owned
by Don Small of Auburn,
Washington.
Mike Josephson said he has
not been contacted by Hol-
lander about acquiring Joseph-
son’s Smokehouse. Kizzie
Adams, a manager of the 76
gas station, told Clatsop Cur-
rent News there is no plan to
sell or demolish the location.
On the riverfront side of
Hollander’s properties is the
boiler from the former White
Star Cannery, which was des-
ignated historic in 2015 by
city’s Historic Landmarks
Commission. The city has lim-
ited development around the
boiler to the height of the river-
bank. Any development must
consider the historic nature
of the boiler and nearby pil-
ing field and ballast rock, and
must be approved by the His-
toric Landmarks Commission.
The city has yet to fin-
ish the Urban Core section of
the Riverfront Vision Plan,
which would govern develop-
ment along the Astoria water-
front between Second and 16th
streets.
Hollander leased a 1.5-
acre strip of land between the
Red Building and the Mari-
time Memorial from the Port
of Astoria to study the feasi-
bility of building a Marriott
Hotel, after a failed bid to take
over operation of the Astoria
Riverwalk Inn. Port Executive
Director Jim Knight said Hol-
lander is still trying to develop
the leased land.
State Senate honors Sgt. Goodding
Memorial
ceremony to be
held in May
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — The state Sen-
ate has unanimously approved
a resolution recognizing and
honoring fallen Seaside Police
Sgt. Jason Goodding for his
service to the state.
The resolution is sponsored
by state Sen. Betsy Johnson.
The resolution will go to
the state House of Represen-
tatives before signing by the
governor, Seaside Police Chief
Dave Ham said.
A law enforcement memo-
rial road sign will be placed in
Goodding’s honor and unveiled
in May at the Oregon Fallen
Law Enforcement Officer
Memorial ceremony at the Ore-
gon Public Safety Academy.
Goodding, who was shot and
killed in the line of duty in Feb-
ruary 2016 while attempting to
make a felony warrant arrest
Submitted Photo
State Sen. Betsy Johnson
with Dean and Patty Good-
ding — the father and step-
mother of fallen Seaside
Police Sgt. Jason Goodding
— after the Senate passed a
resolution honoring Good-
ding and his sacrifice.
on Broadway in Seaside, was
recognized as “a mentor and
leader who worked to improve
the lives of homeless people in
Seaside and who was loved and
respected by his co-workers and
the community he served.”
Goodding joined the Sea-
side Police Department in
2003. He was promoted to ser-
geant in 2007. After his death
in the line of duty, he was
awarded the Law Enforce-
ment Medal of Ultimate Sacri-
fice, presented to his wife and
daughters at the his memo-
rial service in Seaside by Gov.
Kate Brown.
The Senate resolution
recalls Goodding’s “immense
smile and his generous nature”
and his “passion, dedication
and diligence” to his role with
police.
“It was an incredibly mov-
ing day,” Johnson said of the
Senate’s reading.
Johnson,
D-Scappoose,
said she shared the message
she delivered at last year’s
memorial for Goodding. “It
was a message I wanted the
Legislature to hear and wanted
the message in the legisla-
tive record,” she said. “Jason’s
death is like a fresh wound.
You could hear a pin drop in
the chambers. It was a well-de-
served tribute. But God, it
must have been difficult for
the parents.”
Control over dam still
divides city, water district
Water district
board member
wants more talks
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — The
Skipanon Water Control
District, which manages
the Eighth Street Dam in
Warrenton, wants to get
out of the city’s jurisdic-
tion and discuss the future
of the dam, an aging struc-
ture in the Skipanon River,
without lawyers present.
“We want you to have
control of the Skipanon
River inside of your city
limits,” Bruce Francis,
vice chairman of the water
district board, told the City
Commission on Tuesday.
The water district,
which covers some of War-
renton but mostly Clat-
sop Plains, runs from Cul-
laby Lake to the mouth of
the Columbia River. Fran-
cis said the boundary of
the water district should
be changed to the southern
boundary of Warrenton,
allowing the city to turn
the Skipanon into a naviga-
ble stream that can accom-
modate fish passage.
“Why should we be
in your backyard?” Fran-
cis said. “You guys should
have control. Let’s discuss
that. I want to see the peo-
ple who are paying taxes to
us inside your jurisdiction
stop. We don’t need your
tax money.”
The Eighth Street Dam,
built in 1963, remains the
subject of an ongoing prop-
erty dispute between the
city and the water district,
a contentious saga involv-
ing questions of ownership
and liability that has lasted
more than a year.
The water district views
the dam as an obsolete dan-
ger that should be removed,
claiming the move would
not increase flood risk. But
the city, which wants to
restore the dam for flood
protection, has turned to
the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers for guidance,
and argues that when the
water district removed tide
gates and ceased operat-
ing the structure as a dam,
the district forfeited a city
easement to operate it. The
city is seeking to take con-
trol of the dam.
Francis urged the city
to talk to the district board
without expensive attor-
neys present.
“We just want to talk to
you,” Francis said, adding,
“We’re sitting here, look-
ing at each other, and we’re
not making any progress.
I would like to see some
progress on this.”
The mayor, whose fam-
ily has property in the area,
accused the water district of
purposely ignoring a 2002
National Resources Con-
servation Service report
that predicted changes to
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the dam — which Kujala
says is not really a dam but a
flood-control structure, part
of the city’s levee system —
would result in erosion and
property damage upstream.
In 2002, the water district
mechanized the tide gates,
then, years later, removed
them. Francis insisted that
these modifications cannot
account for the erosion that
has taken place.
A
recent
exchange
between Kujala and the water
district board — published in
the Columbia Press and The
Daily Astorian — offered
markedly different views of
the structure’s history — a
disagreement that simmered
at Tuesday’s meeting.
But Francis said the water
district agreed with the final
line in the statement writ-
ten by Kujala with com-
mission input, that “liabili-
ties and responsibilities for
the Eighth Street Dam have
yet to be determined and
hopefully that can be done
swiftly.”
“You’re exactly right,”
Francis said. “Let’s get this
taken care of in a timely
manner, because the longer
we sit around here, the more
money the attorney is grind-
ing out of taxpayers and out
of our pockets.”
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