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Hotel: ‘I think we are the first project to go under this Bridge Vista overlay’
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feet in height allowed in the
Bridge Vista portion of the
city’s Riverfront Vision Plan.
The company is going through
a design review on the hotel
with the city, followed by a
historic landmarks review and
the permitting process.
Under the best-case sce-
nario, construction would
begin late this year and the
hotel would open sometime
next year, Mullen said.
“I think we are the first
project to go under this Bridge
Vista overlay,” Mullen said,
adding the company is seeing
how this project goes before
taking on others.
Hollander Investments is
also looking at turning the
former Stephanie’s Cabin
into a restaurant and brewery
after the hotel is finished. The
company has talked with a
couple of nearby breweries
about the space but wouldn’t
start the project until it can
acquire more parking, Mullen
said.
Hollander Investments is
owned by Mike Hollander
and his son, Mark, who had
tried to take over operation of
the Astoria Riverwalk Inn. In
2015, the Hollanders leased
a strip of land from the Port
of Astoria along the water-
front near the Red Building to
explore the feasibility of siting
a Marriott franchise.
Jim Knight, the Port’s exec-
utive director, said the Hol-
landers are still exploring a
development there but first
want to complete the project
off Second Street.
The Hollanders’ property is
just east of Astoria Warehous-
ing Co., a former salmon-can-
ning and -labeling company
that is closing as operations are
moved to the Seattle area. The
company’s campus includes
about 5 acres spread along the
waterfront next to the Astoria
Bridge.
Hollander Investments
A rendering shows the proposed 66-room Astoria Fairfield Inn and Suites, a Marriott franchise, along the Astoria Riverwalk at the site of the former
Ship Inn restaurant.
Hollander Investments
The Ship Inn
A rendering provides an eastward view of the proposed
66-room Astoria Fairfield Inn and Suites on the right.
A conceptual drawing shows the hotel and marina Fenton Stokeld had imagined around the
site of The Ship Inn. Hollander Investments is proposing a four-story, 66-room hotel at the site.
Plants: Park collaborates with school groups, organizations to manage invaders
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Invasive species impact
every acre of the 3,400 acres
at Lewis and Clark, though
not necessarily by their phys-
ical presence, said Chris Clat-
terbuck, the park’s chief of
resource management.
Pacific Northwest forests
are productive environments,
capable of growing and sus-
taining diverse plant popu-
lations. With invasive plants
already present in portions
of the park and in the private
lands around the park, the
threat of invasion is real.
“Because what might be
perfectly great habitat, all
native species, a bird could
drop a holly berry and you’ll
find a holly tree after a while,”
Clatterbuck said.
The park collaborates with
school groups and organiza-
tions like the Clatsop Soil and
Water Conservation District
or the North Coast Land Con-
servancy to manage invad-
ers like Scotch broom or yel-
low iris and purple loosestrife
in the Youngs Bay watershed.
Through these partnerships,
park staff can curb the spread
of invasive species into the
park.
“This is much more
cost-effective than waiting
until the infestations get out
of control and into our park-
lands and eradication costs
skyrocket,” Cole said.
Cultural landscapes
The Nehalem Bay unit is
in the middle of a project to
clear 20 acres of trees and
invasive brush north of the
Nehalem Bay State Park air-
strip. The project will close
down an entrance to the park
on weekdays throughout most
of March.
The trees need to be
cleared for the airstrip to be
usable, but the park plans to
take advantage of the situation
to remove rampant Scotch
broom, replace it with native
kinnikinnick and control the
invaders’ progress by intro-
ducing desired competitors
for that prime real estate.
At Lewis and Clark, inva-
sive plant management can
also be about protecting his-
toric characteristics of the
sites — the landscapes native
people navigated, the plants
they used for medicine,
food, clothing and basketry,
the world that the explorers
who give the park its name
encountered.
“It’s important to be able to
maintain those cultural land-
scapes,” Clatterbuck said.
This kind of management
can be years in the making. At
this point, park staff feel they
have a handle on older, mature
invasive plants, but some spe-
cies have become naturalized
over the years. In some cases,
it would take an inordinate
amount of control to convert
the landscape back. There is
no aggressive anti-dandelion
policy, for example.
Rangers focus on new
infestations and on species
that are particularly aggres-
sive, species that will crowd
out other species and create a
monoculture.
The battle against invasive
plants is a constant and seem-
ingly never-ending process.
Victories may feel scattered,
rare and temporary, but park
staff can point to several pos-
itive changes over the years.
The park at one point
acquired around 900 acres of
forest that hadn’t been treated
for common invasive plants
like holly and ivy. Over the
years, crews eliminated much
of the seed-producing holly.
Where the park has done tidal
Bill: Companies would have to report all data
breaches to the state Department of Justice
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Atlanta-based credit report-
ing agency last September.
The data breach compromised
private information, such as
Social Security and driver’s
license numbers, of 145 mil-
lion consumers in the United
States, Canada and the United
Kingdom. About 1.7 million
Social Security numbers were
jeopardized in Oregon alone,
according to the state.
Equifax discovered in
July that cyber thieves had
accessed consumers’ names,
addresses, birthdates, Social
Security numbers and driv-
er’s license information, but
the breach wasn’t reported to
consumers until September,
according to media reports.
A February letter to U.S.
Sen.
Elizabeth
Warren,
D-Massachusetts,
showed
that additional consumer
information was exposed,
including tax identification
numbers, email addresses and
additional driver’s license
information.
The House vote in Oregon
came on the same day Equi-
fax disclosed that an addi-
tional 2.4 million consum-
ers were exposed in the data
breach.
“The Equifax data breach
was a shocking reminder of
how vulnerable we all are to
having our sensitive informa-
tion compromised and falling
victim to identity theft,” said
Maureen Mahoney, policy
analyst for Consumers Union,
a division of Consumer
Reports. “Identity thieves
can ruin a consumer’s credit
record by opening fraudulent
accounts in their names and
running up big bills that go
unpaid. By making the secu-
rity freeze free, Oregon is
providing consumers with a
powerful safeguard that pre-
vents crooks from doing seri-
ous financial damage that can
take years to repair.”
The bill would require
companies to reveal a breach
within 45 days unless law
enforcement determines doing
so would impede a crimi-
nal investigation. Holvey and
Sen. Floyd Prozanski, another
Democrat from Eugene,
co-sponsored the legislation.
Companies would have to
report all data breaches to the
state Department of Justice.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
restoration, it has been pos-
sible to drown out invasive
plants.
“You see what was once
a mixture of pasture grasses
is now a full wetland com-
munity with a whole suite of
native wetland species,” Clat-
terbuck said.
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