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Lawsuit: About 5
million homes are
covered by national
flood insurance
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“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
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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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Shelter: Local, state leaders support it
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The scope of work for
the Uniontown Apartments
included repairing and rein-
stalling windows, repairing
and painting all interior dry-
wall, removing and replac-
ing all flooring and sub floors,
installing new heating units,
electrical wiring upgrades,
roof repairs and dealing with
any instances of asbestos, lead
paint and mold.
“To bring it up to gov-
ernment standards is just too
expensive,” said Scott Lee,
the chairman of the hous-
ing authority board as well
as chairman of the county
Board of Commissioners. “We
wanted to flip it and hopefully
get it to somebody who could
serve the same population that
(the housing authority) serves
and who goes along with our
mission rather than have it just
turned into condos.”
The housing authority
decided to offer the house to
Helping Hands before put-
ting it on the market. 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
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“(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.
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“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.
The police chief hopes to
begin collecting more data
around homelessness to deter-
mine what are problems and
what are just perceptions.
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