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4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018 Lawsuit: About 5 million homes are covered by national flood insurance Continued from Page 1A “If successful, the indus- try lawsuit … would reverse years of effort in Oregon to reform the taxpayer-subsi- dized National Flood Insur- ance Program administered by” FEMA, the conservation groups said in a joint release. “The flood insurance pro- gram places people, commu- nities and wildlife at unnec- essary risk by encouraging development in flood-prone areas by providing taxpayer subsidies for insurance cov- erage that private companies generally see as too risky.” FEMA administers the National Flood Insurance Program, providing cov- erage in flood-prone areas to more than 250 cities and counties in exchange for their adopting flood plain development regulations. About 5 million homes in the U.S. are covered by the program. The Audubon Society of Portland and several other conservation groups sued the agency in 2009, claiming the flood insurance program endangered the habitat of salmon, steelhead and south- ern resident killer whales protected under the Endan- gered Species Act. A settle- ment required FEMA to con- sult with the fisheries service and propose changes to bet- ter protect endangered spe- cies and their habitat. A biological opinion issued in 2016 included several proposed changes including limiting devel- opment in flood- and ero- sion-prone areas, further protecting salmon-bearing surface waters from devel- opment, enhancing mapping and identification of flood- and erosion-prone areas, using local governments to help track flood plain development and enhancing enforcement. Oregonians for Flood- plain Protection contend the biological opinion violates both the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, and is there- fore unlawful. The agencies being sued have asked that the case be thrown out, argu- ing the complaints are pre- mature because the agen- cies have not yet taken any action to determine whether they’ve caused the alleged harm. FEMA predicts that a final implementation plan will not be adopted until at least August. Column: This could be a way to fund parks Continued from Page 1A at their brick-and-mortar location, the menu will be limited. “We like to do a couple things and do them really well,” Lisa Malcolm said. The City Council did not ask the Malcolms any ques- tions and quickly approved the proposal. The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board had more of a discus- sion when Parks and Recre- ation Director Angela Cosby broached the subject at a meeting in January. One board member wor- ried that the parks depart- ment could be “opening a can of worms” by allowing vendors in city parks, but it could also be a way to fund parks. Norma Hernandez, the board chairwoman, said many out-of-town visitors go to the Column once or twice a year, but they still pay $5 for an annual parking pass. Offering more at the Column could be a way to encour- age people to linger and help them feel they are getting more of an experience. The board was con- cerned about creating a car- nival-type atmosphere at the Column, however. Some board members also pointed out that adding another struc- ture on Coxcomb Hill, even a small, mobile ice cream cart, could alter the view. Astoria has beautiful parks and beau- tiful places, said board mem- ber Andrew Fick. “We need to be thoughtful whenever we’re going to start messing with that,” he said. In their proposal, the Mal- colms outlined several ways they plan to minimize the impact of the business. Their cart will be 7 feet tall and 16 feet long and light blue in color “so that it blends in with its surroundings on a sunny day,” they wrote, add- ing, “We think a primary color would look out of place with the natural beauty of the Column site.” Instead of using a gener- ator for power, they want to plug into the existing electric grid. “We don’t want to be the source of any noise pol- lution,” they wrote. 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The two had collaborated before. The housing authority board voted unanimously to approve the sale at its meeting last week. “Alan Evans has a track record of success with these buildings and we felt that Helping Hands would be a great organization to continue the legacy (of the building),” Lee said. ‘Positive for Uniontown’ Lee has already heard some complaints and concerns from people who live or work in the area who worry the shel- ter could be detrimental to the neighborhood. The Astoria Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Helping Hands, a nonprofit that works with the homeless, is looking to expand opera- tions to Astoria. Warming Center, at the First United Methodist Church on Franklin Avenue and across the street from apartments and houses, has faced criti- cism for how it has operated in the neighborhood. Some of the criticism, board mem- bers admit, was justified. They have tried to tweak how the center is operated this year. The Uniontown Apart- ments are on the north side of busy Marine Drive, sand- wiched between a motel and a store that sells work wear and across the street from a coffee shop and a bar. Lee hopes peo- ple wait and figure out what Helping Hands plans to offer before jumping to conclu- sions, he said. “It’s going to be positive for our community,” he said. “It’s positive for Uniontown.” The project received sup- port from leaders such as state Senator Betsy Johnson, Dis- trict Attorney Josh Marquis and Astoria Mayor Arline LaMear. “This project and the work Helping Hands does aligns closely with current city, county and state priorities for addressing the housing cri- sis in Oregon and the effect it has had on the most vulnera- ble among us,” Johnson wrote, also noting that her husband, John Helm, serves on Help- ing Hands’ board of direc- tors. Johnson, D-Scappoose, has also been a member of the board and is now an advisory board member. All of the Helping Hands centers operate on refer- rals and work only with peo- ple who are willing to abide by the organization’s require- ments, which include sobriety, random drug tests, mandatory volunteer hours, participa- tion in weekly process groups and proof of a job search. The nonprofit does not pro- vide services to sex offenders or to people who make a life- style of being homeless and are not interested in chang- ing their lives, Evans said. Helping Hands created a sim- ilar single-campus, apart- ment-like dorm in Tillamook at the former naval air station, a substantially larger and more complicated structure. “Anytime you say you’re opening a facility (like this one), you get some resistance because people feel they know what you do,” Evans said. “We’re very good at what we do.” Homeless: Police chief hopes to collect more data Continued from Page 1A “(The councilors’ motion of support) causes us to look at our priorities,” Spalding said after the meeting. “Not having infinite resources, we have to look at where are we going to spend our time. We’ve known for a while that there’s been a big frustration in the commu- nity, you can see the frustration bubbling up. Even the council- ors are frustrated because it’s a problem for our community that no one has any really great answers for.” ‘Bad behavior’ Debbie Boothe Schmidt, owner of Phog Bounders Antique Mall, whose com- ments sparked the discus- sion, had hoped for a parking exemption so her employees — some of whom are older — could park near the business. Instead, they park on Astor Street near a small park at the base of Eighth Street, where there is no parking time limit. Homeless people often gather at this spot, she said. While Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian The Astoria City Council has directed police to more aggressively enforce city rules against public urina- tion and defecation. they haven’t done much more than catcall, it is intimidating to her employees and custom- ers, she said. She believes there have also been issues of drunk- enness and drug use. “We are not people with- out compassion,” said Tom Schmidt, Debbie Schmidt’s husband and also an owner of Phog Bounders. “We are not people who don’t care about other people, but these people don’t care about us.” Spalding and LaMear head the city’s homelessness task force, meeting with a wide spectrum of people from social service, advocacy, law enforce- ment, education and health backgrounds to come up with ways to address issues. LaMear hopes creative solutions will come out of their discussions, but said it could be a long time before they have anything concrete. “We’ve got people break- ing the laws, making our citi- zens feel unsafe and jeopardiz- ing the quality of life and we’re letting them do it,” Nemlowill said, arguing that the motion was something that could be accomplished now. “So our chief of police says that he would like direction from coun- cil on how to deal with this and whether or not we would like the police department to take a more aggressive approach to this kind of bad behavior.” “It seems to me like we’ve got two problems,” she added. SCHEDULE A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach “There’s the issue of home- lessness and then we’ve got bad behavior, and I don’t care who’s causing the bad behav- ior, whether they’ve got a house or they don’t have a house, they still shouldn’t be allowed to be violating laws that we have in place, like urination and defe- cation on the streets and viola- tion of leash laws and drinking alcohol, smoking in city parks. That stuff just happens and we just let it happen.” Nemlowill pointed out that in a goal-setting session held Friday, Spalding and the coun- cil talked about bad behav- ior people have attributed to homeless people and how some of these issues could be addressed by police tak- ing a more proactive approach in enforcing city rules. The understaffed police department would likely require more offi- cers to do this effectively, Spal- ding cautioned. 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