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Hangar: Projected to cost $1 million
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Life Flight’s new lease is
expected to generate $19,000
a year for the Port. The ser-
vice also accounts for 10 per-
cent of jet fuel sales at the air-
port and will be obligated to
buy it at $1.30 per gallon, earn-
ing the Port another $13,000
annually. Combined with the
added revenue from freeing
up the executive hangar Life
Flight leases, the Port expects
to make $32,000 annually from
the agreement.
Since voters rejected a
bond measure in May 2017
to fund Life Flight’s reloca-
tion, the Port has been negoti-
ating with the service on a new
spot. Life Flight received a
$665,000 ConnectOregon state
infrastructure grant that, along
with its $285,000 match, will
pay for the construction of the
hangar.
The two sides settled on
Life Flight’s existing location
near the airport terminal build-
ing. The location was not the
preferred site during the debate
over the bond measure because
of potential traffic and noise
conflicts with nearby avia-
tors, the Coast Guard’s Air Sta-
tion Astoria and the Columbia
River Bar Pilots.
Gary Kobes, the airport
manager for the Port, said
reaching a final solution meant
the Port agreed to take on
responsibility if there are any
environmental issues that pop
up during construction. So far,
only light contamination on a
small section of soil has been
found, he said.
Jim Knight, the Port’s
executive director, said the
agency still needs to make sev-
eral changes to nearby leases
before finalizing the lease with
Life Flight, such as moving a
nearby storage area for Reser’s
Fine Foods.
The Port Commission also
voted Tuesday to accept a
$300,000 grant from the Fed-
eral Aviation Administra-
tion that will pay the agency
back for $266,220 it spent on
1.5 acres of wetland mitiga-
tion credits from Warrenton
Fiber at the headwaters of the
John Day River to offset the
environmental impacts of a
taxiway relocation.
Center: Cox plans data center in Warrenton
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ifornia, grew up in Asto-
ria and graduated from Clats-
kanie High School. He earned
a business degree at Clatsop
Community College before
transferring to the University
of Oregon, where he earned
dual degrees in marketing and
finance.
He founded a nationwide
internet service provider called
Global Frontiers Inc. in 1997
and a web-hosting company
called Web Hosting Pros in
2004. Last year, he founded
Agile Design to facilitate
opening a new data center.
Cox was on a recent visit
to the North Coast for the hol-
idays when he realized what a
good location it would be for
the project. Data centers have
been rapidly moving to the
Pacific Northwest and other
areas that offer less-expensive
rates for power and water. The
North Coast Business Park is
also part of a state-approved
enterprise zone that could pro-
vide a three- to five-year prop-
erty tax break for new devel-
opment, although nobody so
far has taken advantage of the
incentive.
Cox was also drawn by the
North Coast’s proximity to
undersea fiber-optic cables that
help create the backbone of the
global internet, he said. The
Northwest Open Access Net-
work, a fiber-optic cable oper-
ator created by public utility
districts in Washington state,
recently announced plans to
extend a land line through
Astoria and Warrenton, citing
the interest of an undisclosed,
large-scale new customer
wanting a connection.
Many of the employees
to start the North Coast Data
and Technology Center would
need to be hired from outside
the region, Cox said, but he
envisions a training program
at the college helping supply
future workers.
The property at the North
Coast Business Park will meet
his company’s needs for the
next 20 years, he said. The
business is poised to continue
growing as more devices con-
nect to the internet.
Jim Knight, executive
director of the Port of Astoria,
helped shepherd Cox’s pro-
posal. He called it an amazing
opportunity for the community
and the Port.
“This will be a primary
driver of a new form of enter-
prise in our community,” he
said Tuesday during a Port
Commission meeting. “We are
entering the tech world.”
The plant will need a
backup energy source, he said,
which could end up being a
woody biomass plant poten-
tially located at the Port’s Air-
port Industrial Park. In addi-
tion, there is an opportunity for
the Port to get into the business
of managing fiber-optic cables,
Knight said.
Planning: Commission will take at least 10 months
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to “lay the framework for
moving forward,” City Man-
ager Brett Estes said.
The Urban Core is an area
where planning consultant
Rosemary Johnson believes
there is potential for new devel-
opment. Tuesday’s meeting
covered the history of develop-
ment in the area and discussed
what exists there today.
Matt Hastie, of Angelo Plan-
ning Group, ran through a num-
ber of questions the Planning
Commission will need to con-
sider over the coming months.
For example: Does the com-
mission want to restrict what
kind of buildings and busi-
nesses can set up shop over the
water? If there will be restric-
tions, how does the city want
to address things that already
exist along the waterfront?
The goal is to establish
guidelines that find a balance
between flexibility and clarity,
Hastie said. Easy to administer,
devoid of ambiguity.
Planning
commission-
ers had few questions, though
Commissioner Jan Mitchell
gave Hastie a list of items she
needed to better understand,
echoing questions and con-
cerns voiced elsewhere. These
included the Port of Astoria’s
plans along the waterfront, the
economics of building over
the water, and what the costs
would be to create and sustain
a parking district, among other
issues.
Elizabeth Menetrey, who
is program director at Coast
Community Radio and who
served on the early River-
front Vision Plan commit-
tee, referred to recent plans to
build a four-story hotel farther
west along the waterfront, in
the Bridge Vista section. That
project, while allowed under
city code, was in opposition to
an overall city goal of main-
taining sweeping, open vistas
along the water’s edge in that
area, she said.
For the Urban Core, the
Planning Commission has an
opportunity to “make a nebu-
lous vision firm.”
“I think here you have a
chance to be a little conser-
vative in what we allow,” she
said.
A town hall meeting on
Sept. 13 will give the com-
munity a chance to learn more
about the Urban Core and
weigh in with suggestions. A
location for the town hall meet-
ing has not been set, but will be
finalized soon, Estes said.
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Voters in Warrenton will be asked to approve a $38.5
million bond for school improvements in November.
Bond: Request will go
before Warrenton voters
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erty tax burden in the school
district is projected to be
$2.68 per $1,000 of assessed
value through 2049 if the
bond passes.
The facilities committee
had initially recommended
a $32.4 million bond to buy
the campus and build the
middle school. But the costs
of preparing the preferred
campus site and construct-
ing a new middle school
came back higher than
expected, Jeffery said. If the
bond passes in November,
the district will also receive
a $4 million matching grant
from the state.
Tom Rogozinski, prin-
cipal of Warrenton Grade
School for six years, said
enrollment was around
573 when he started but is
now approaching 800. The
school is now one of the
most populous K-8 cam-
puses in the state. The
school district has been
converting every usable
space inside the building
into classrooms and offices,
while adding several porta-
bles outside.
“Our building is set up
for 541 students,” he said.
“We can put portables
everywhere, but we don’t
get more bathrooms, we
don’t get more gym space,
we don’t get more cafete-
ria space. And I think that
really has been resonant for
our staff over the past few
years.”
Members of the facili-
ties committee touted the
need for a new campus. Pam
Ackley, a Warrenton city
commissioner and local real
estate agent, said it is esti-
mated that the region needs
350 new homes in the next
five years to accommodate
growth.
Len Mossman, a police
officer and former school
board member who was
recently reappointed to fill a
vacancy, said that each por-
table is another building to
secure, and that kids are not
as safe as they would be in a
main building.
School board member
Dalan Moss said the new
campus gives the school
district a higher level of
purpose.
“The portables are an
expensive Band-Aid for the
growth problem,” he said.
The bond will help the
school district invest in
staff and provide students
with a modern educational
experience, said Debbie
Morrow, the school board
chairwoman.
“This bond represents
long-term thinking … for
how we will manage our
schools and collective
resources,” she said.
County voters will con-
sider several bond measures
in November. The Asto-
ria School District is ask-
ing voters for $70 million
to rebuild much of Astoria
Middle School, along with
security improvements and
modernization at its other
campuses. Clatsop County
is seeking $20 million to
move the county jail from
Astoria to the former North
Coast Youth Correctional
Facility in Warrenton. Sun-
set Empire Park and Recre-
ation District is asking for
$20 million to expand a rec-
reation center in Seaside.
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