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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2017
Warrenton changes Warrenton swears in new police officer
code to encourage
more local housing
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — The
Warrenton City Commission
voted 3-1 Tuesday to allow
multifamily housing develop-
ment in commercial zones.
Acting Mayor Henry Bal-
ensifer was the sole “no” vote.
He said after the meeting that
the amendment to the munic-
ipal code chips away at the
code without a comprehen-
sive, overall plan for how the
city could and should develop
into the future.
“This does not keep in line
with current plans, particularly
our community vision plan,”
he said.
At a prior commission
meeting, Balensifer indicated
he was not against the amend-
ment in general, but was con-
cerned about allowing this
development in certain down-
town corridors along Harbor
Street and South Main Avenue.
At the meeting, he asked
the commissioners to consider
amending the language of the
amendment to exclude a por-
tion of this downtown corri-
dor. No other commissioner
seconded and the amendment
passed as presented by city
staff.
The amendment will allow
multifamily housing devel-
opment in commercial zones,
with the exception of land along
U.S. Highway 101, SE Mar-
lin and SW Dolphin avenues.
Multifamily dwellings could be
neighbors with various types of
shops, storage or distribution
facilities, clinics, rental busi-
nesses, churches or commercial
buildings with residences on the
second floor, among others.
In other business:
• The City Commission
approved a lease with the War-
renton School District, tem-
porarily moving the Warren-
ton Community Library from
its current location in a deteri-
orating building in Hammond
to the old Serendipity Cafe at
160 SE Main.
The city will put $15,000 it
had planned to use to recarpet
City Hall toward the lease and
the library’s moving expenses.
“We believe this to be more
than adequate to finance the
relocations, and any remain-
ing balance will fall to begin-
ning fund balance for next fis-
cal year,” stated a memo to the
commission from City Man-
ager Linda Engbretson.
WARRENTON — War-
renton Police Chief Mathew
Workman joked that if you
looked up “local” in the dic-
tionary, you’d find a picture
of acting Mayor Henry Bal-
ensifer. But right below it, he
said, would be a picture of
the police department’s new-
est hire, Joshua Hollaway.
Hollaway, who was born
in Astoria and raised in War-
renton, was sworn in as the
city’s newest police offi-
cer at a City Commission
meeting Tuesday. Balen-
sifer administered the oath
of office.
“We’re really proud to
have him and very excited,”
Workman said later. When
he hires officers who grew
up in the area “you want to
be sure they’re the right fit
because that can present
challenges in a small town
where you know everyone
and everyone knows you,”
Workman said. But Holla-
way: “He’ll be fine.”
“He’s a good fit for our
community.”
The department now has
nine police officers and three
reserve police officers. Work-
man still hopes to fill two
additional police officer spots
the city approved recently.
Katie Frankowicz/The Daily Astorian
Warrenton Police Department’s newest officer, Joshua Hollaway, is sworn in by acting
Mayor Henry Balensifer Tuesday.
Recruitment is difficult
at small, rural departments
and the Warrenton Police
Department has worked with
a skeleton crew for years.
Now, said Workman, “We’re
playing catch up.”
Hollaway
officially
started at the Warrenton
Police Department in April
and began his field training
with another officer. Since
he came to the department
with no law enforcement
experience and has months
of training ahead of him,
he probably won’t be a full
police officer, on the road
by himself, until the start of
next year, Workman said.
Hollaway is scheduled
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Tuesday gave a green light
for six days of razor clam
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the clams are safe to eat. The
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being increased to 25 clams.
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will be able to proceed as
planned this weekend, start-
ing with clam-digging les-
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Seattle resident Bradley
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A large crowd is likely to
do the same this coming
weekend.
sons Saturday at 6:45 a.m.
and Sunday at 7:30 a.m. at
the Bolstad Pavilion near the
north end of the boardwalk.
Many other events are
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Dennis Co., clam chowder
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Beach Elks Lodge and a
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just east of the police station
between Pacific Avenue and
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State shellfish managers
agreed to increase the daily
limit to 25 for the digs at
Long Beach, which has been
closed much of the razor
clam season due to elevated
marine toxin levels, said Dan
Ayres, Washington Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife
coastal shellfish manager.
“We wanted to provide
diggers with some addi-
tional opportunity at Long
Beach since we know there
are plenty of clams there for
harvest,” Ayres said.
Recent
tests
found
domoic toxin levels at all
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Washington Department of
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That new set of samples
taken Sunday all came back
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