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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018 Housing: In split vote, Cannon Beach shoots down code amendments ‘The whole community has gotten behind that park and I think it has really united the neighborhood.’ Arline LaMear Astoria mayor Slide: Project to be completed as weather improves Continued from Page 1A Continued from Page 1A Dart-McLean said. While the city had allowed maintenance agreements and a type of park adoption in the past, the agreement with the Friends of McClure Park was the first stab at something more formal. “They were kind of our test case with this slide,” Dart-Mc- Lean said. Plans for McClure first began to really take off follow- ing the finalization of a com- prehensive parks master plan in 2016. That plan looked at the city’s park system and the parks department’s facilities as a whole to evaluate how people used different sites and ame- nities and what they wanted going forward. The idea was to establish “long and short-term vision and priorities.” Under the master plan, the groups involved determined that McClure Park had low usage and was in poor condi- tion. The assessment put the park on par with several other small parks around the city, including places like Alder- brook Park or the Peoples Park where the Astoria Scan- dinavian Heritage Association Friends of McClure Park The new slide arrives at McClure Park in 2017. hopes to site a monument and where, for now, the nonprofit Filling Empty Bellies feeds lunch to people in need. What has set McClure apart, however, is its active friends group. The master plan for McClure was developed with the friends group in mind, Parks Director Angela Cosby told the City Council last June when the blueprint came back for approval. The city and the group plan to collaborate on future work and the city expects to draft a maintenance plan to complement the park’s existing master plan. “The whole community has gotten behind that park and I think it has really united the neighborhood,” Mayor Arline LaMear said in June. Port: Federal incentives for investment Continued from Page 1A expand and the agency rebuild dilapidated infrastructure. Walt Postlewait, an execu- tive vice president for regional nonprofit lender Craft3, said the program provides an incen- tive for investors to put money into higher-risk areas. “In the end, development is a numbers game, and costs are often high on the coast,” Pos- tlewait said, detailing the dif- ficulties rural areas have in matching the returns on invest- ment seen in larger urban areas. “We need some advan- tage out here from a numbers standpoint.” Warrenton Mayor Henry Balensifer, spokesman for electric tug manufacturer Lek- tro, supported Knight’s appli- cation for the area around the airport and county business park. “There’s been no ground- breaking industrial devel- opment, and that’s what we want,” Balensifer said. “That’s where you get the family-wage jobs. It’s the traded sector.” One piece of low-hanging fruit for a project could be an incubator space to help smaller businesses grow before a cap- ital-raising campaign, Pos- tlewait said, or lowering the costs for developers to build workforce housing mixed with commercial spaces. “It’s an intriguing tool that could help draw capital into these low-income areas,” Pos- tlewait said. “Most of the ques- tions are about how the rules will be written to make sure investments benefit low-in- come communities.” Opportunity zones are sep- arate from enterprise zones, in which state property taxes on new developments can be exempted for three to five years. The state has nearly 70 enterprise zones, including the Clatsop Enterprise Zone cov- ering Warrenton, the airport and the county business park. “If the purpose is to have some affordable housing, then we need to have more in the ordinance than just relaxing building restric- tions,” said City Councilor George Vetter, who voted against the amendments. The council followed the footsteps of the Plan- ning Commission, which in February rejected the pro- posal due to concerns about how the changes would ensure affordability, as well as the impact to the town’s aesthetic with higher roof heights. Commissioners were also concerned parking changes could make spaces harder to find in a town where parking is already at a premium. “To me there’s nothing in this that would assure this would be affordable hous- ing,” Commissioner Lisa Kerr said in February. “The proponents are all people involved in development and commercial endeavors. That’s fine — but the way it’s written here is a disaster waiting to happen. I don’t think how any of this could lead to affordable housing.” Bartl argued reducing the city’s parking requirements would be a way to entice more developers to build by allowing them to maxi- mize the number of units on the property. A study by the Victoria Transport Policy Institute in British Colum- bia found that one parking space per affordable housing unit increases costs by 12.5 percent, which eventually translates into higher rent. Councilors Nancy McCarthy and Mike Bene- field also voted against the amendments Tuesday, fear- ing that without any form of rent restriction requirement the changes would lead to developers tearing down and rebuilding single-fam- ily homes to rent at mar- ket prices. Benefield also had concerns about how the changes would affect the “character of Cannon Beach.” By raising the roof-line limit from 28 feet to 32 feet, properties would be follow- ing the same guidelines the city already approves for motels. Developers could build three stories to include more units, which ultimately drives down the rent charged at the end of the project, according to Bartl. Bartl argued the deed restriction banning short- term rentals and condos acts as a control by taking away two major incentives that drive the high-end home market. Mayor Sam Steidel and City Councilor Brandon Ogilvie, who both voted for the changes, argued hav- ing more multifamily hous- ing would help address affordable housing issues by increasing density. “We just need more hous- ing. Housing in general is also a need, and regulatory changes are our best option to try to get more develop- ment,” Steidel said. “Maybe it will help (affordable hous- ing), maybe it won’t, but it’ll never happen unless we try.” While Bartl recognized there was no way to guar- antee rents would be afford- able, the point of the amend- ments was to find a way to increase the chances of a developer being interested in building housing in Can- non Beach at a time when land and construction costs are soaring. “I’m rather disheartened by this conversation. You’ve spent five years telling the community you want to do something about affordable housing,” Bartl said. “Noth- ing has happened. 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