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Warming centers: Housing: ‘There’s not much land left’
Volunteers have
dwindled over
the past year
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Though Parkison isn’t
sure why he has fewer vol-
unteers, he does have one
theory.
“I think that, and I could
be wrong, people are emo-
tionally tired in the political
climate that we have right
now,” he said.
Darlene Warren, board
chairwoman of the Warren-
ton Warming Center, has
another theory. It’s been too
warm. People aren’t step-
ping outside, feeling the
chill, and thinking, “I’d
hate to have to sleep outside
tonight if I were homeless.”
“I think we’re so early in
the season,” Warren said.
Over the past year, how-
ever, the Warrenton center’s
list of volunteers has dwin-
dled and few people have
stepped up to replace those
who have stepped down, she
said.
Still, she said, “I think it’s
always been an issue, so it’s
hard to say.”
The decision to close the
warming center in Astoria
Saturday was hard and dis-
couraging, Parkison said.
The homeless the cen-
ter serves “make their
plans every day on what
their resources are and
then to take that away from
them … there were a lot of
stunned people. I could see
that in their faces,” Parkison
said.
But he concluded it was
better to have to close for
a night early in the season
than later, when the days are
consistently chilly.
Hunting: Number of elk
hunting permits were cut
drastically in Washington
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Officials won’t know how
effective their efforts will be
until hunting season ends in
January and hunters submit
reports saying how many
deer they killed.
Colorado, Idaho, Oregon,
Utah and Washington state
also imposed hunting limits
to help isolated wildlife herds
recover from the winter. Deer
were hit hardest in most of
those states, while Washing-
ton had severe losses among
several of its elk herds.
In southern and central
Idaho, last winter’s fawn sur-
vival rate was just 30 per-
cent, prompting a reduction
in deer hunting permits to
help herds boost their num-
bers, said Mike Keckler,
spokesman for the Idaho Fish
and Game Department.
“We’re trying to bring
them back up,” he said.
And in Washington, the
number of elk hunting per-
mits was cut drastically in
some parts of the state where
elk died in droves, said
Brock Hoenes, statewide elk
specialist with the Washing-
ton Department of Fish and
Wildlife.
The area of Wyoming
where Clark takes hunt-
ers is known as one of the
best places in the world to
hunt mule deer, state Game
and Fish spokesman Renny
MacKay said. He added that
the decision to limit permits
was difficult for state offi-
cials to make.
Clark said his business
will survive the downturn but
that his future guiding hunt-
ers is uncertain if wildlife
managers reduce the num-
ber of mule deer hunting per-
mits for nonresidents again
next year.
“Otherwise, none of us
are going to have any deer
hunters,” he said.
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This trend, paired with very
little developable land, makes
affordable housing a chal-
lenge. Bartl suggests reduc-
ing the city’s parking require-
ments as a way to entice more
developers to build.
“This is not a unique prob-
lem. Parking takes up a lot of
land, and it drives up cost for
the developer. The require-
ments are excessive, and if
you are using that land for
parking, that’s land you aren’t
using for housing,” Bartl said.
The issue of park-
ing requirements hindering
affordable housing has been
a topic of discussion in cities
across the country, including
Portland and Eugene. A study
by the Victoria Transport Pol-
icy Institute in British Colum-
bia found that one parking
space per affordable hous-
ing unit increases costs by
approximately 12.5 percent,
which eventually translates
into higher rent. It also found
the demand for parking in
affordable housing complexes
surveyed was 50 percent of
what most cities required.
While the study mostly
considered urban areas, Bartl
argues these impacts are sim-
ilar in Cannon Beach. Bartl
surveyed how many parking
spots were occupied at Shore-
wood Apartments and Elk
Creek Terrace – the two sub-
sidized housing complexes in
town – and found on average
80 percent of all of the park-
ing was occupied by residents.
Bartl is also asking the
city to raise building height
requirements from 28 feet to
32 feet in the R3 zone — the
zone that permits multifamily
housing. Because hotels are
already permitted to be built
to 32 feet, he argues most peo-
ple would not notice a visual
difference.
His last proposal would
allow developers to build
multifamily housing on land
zoned for commercial. Cur-
rently, only 50 percent of
property in commercial zon-
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City Planner Mark Barnes
said he has talked with many
people who have expressed
similar frustrations as Bartl
and Clark when it comes to
attempting to develop afford-
able properties in Cannon
Beach, but said this is the first
time someone has gotten as
far as to request code changes
in a public way.
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body for affordable housing,”
Barnes said. “A lot is directed
at private developers. So we
do want to look at our code to
see if we have any roadblocks
that make it harder for them to
create affordable housing.”
During
Bartl’s
testi-
mony, many planning com-
missioners had reservations
about the changes, and ques-
tioned the city’s role in creat-
ing workforce housing. Some
wanted to wait to see more
progress with the city’s plan
to establish affordable tiny
homes in the town’s RV park
before approving major code
changes.
“Why is it that this is
our problem rather than the
employer’s problem?” Plan-
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Bob Lundy said. He suggested
employers should offer subsi-
dies and salary supplements
so workers could live in town.
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ing can be allocated for
housing.
In the interest of transpar-
ency, Bartl said changing the
zoning requirements is in the
best interest of Clark, who is
seeking to develop workforce
housing on land he owns that is
zoned commercial. But Bartl
argues the positive impacts of
these changes extend beyond
Clark’s project.
“Coaster has lots of
employees, and always has a
hard time finding housing for
them. Having half developed
as housing is good, but think
if you can make the whole site
more housing,” Bartl said. “At
some point you have to decide
what your priorities are, and
the city has signaled afford-
able housing is a priority. If
you’re going to rely on the
private sector to solve this, it
financially has to work out for
them.”
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important to make sure cur-
rent ordinances aren’t acting
as obstruction for employ-
ers who do want to provide
housing.
Commissioner Joe Bernt
questioned the validity of the
parking survey Bartl con-
ducted at the low-income
housing complexes. Without
robust public transit, some
commissioners argued cars
are a necessity in places like
Clatsop County.
“I’m not sure if how many
cars you see at 8 p.m. for three
nights is a good way of deter-
mining parking standards,” he
said.
Bernt also objected to rais-
ing rooflines to 32 feet in a
residential zone, and said he
thought there were ways to
build three-story buildings
without doing so.
“I think we are better
off facilitating exceptions
and variances,” Bernt said.
“There’s not much land left in
Cannon Beach, and there are
houses that could be built fol-
lowing our current rules. This
R3 zone will be increasingly
valuable and attractive to peo-
ple who want to move here
and retire.”
For now, city staff will cre-
ate a draft ordinance reflect-
ing Bartl and Clark’s sugges-
tions, which will be evaluated
by commissioners and the
community at January’s pub-
lic hearing.
“People will always find
reasons to oppose affordable
housing,” Bartl said. “(The
Sea Lark Apartments) is a test
case. Do you want to add to
affordable housing or not? It’s
the difference between rheto-
ric and reality.”
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