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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
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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.
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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. This is the
easiest thing that anybody
can do, and evidently most
of you can’t do it … You
have to take some risks.”
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