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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2018
Store: Developer could appeal the county’s decision
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The county’s Planning
Commission last month voted
unanimously to recommend
denial of Cross Development’s
application. Staff and planning
commissioners found a larger
Dollar General would fail to
meet several of the criteria in
the rural commercial zone,
such as supporting existing
businesses, contributing to the
community’s identity and pro-
viding necessary services for
the surrounding community.
“One of the reasons for
limiting the size of new com-
mercial developments to 4,000
square feet is to avoid under-
mining the viability of nearby
existing businesses and com-
munities,” a county staff
report said.
Cross Development has
argued that a larger store is
necessary to create an econ-
omy of scale and sell prod-
ucts at a lower price. Josh
Allen, a senior development
manager with the company,
said Wednesday that Dol-
lar General would provide a
budget-conscious shopper a
cheaper alternative to high-
er-priced goods.
Staff found Cross Devel-
opment had not demonstrated
why the area needs more
large-scale retail and failed
to address the locally owned
grocery store Country Mar-
ket 3 miles away in Svensen.
While Cross Development’s
application would create an
estimated eight to 10 new
jobs, nearly half of them part
time, the undercutting and
closing of nearby businesses
that offer the same services
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The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to deny a proposed
Dollar General store in Knappa.
would negate any employment
increases, county staff said.
“The applicant has focused
on how the rural commu-
nity of Knappa fits the growth
strategy of Dollar General, but
less emphasis is placed on the
community itself and if Dollar
General fits the community’s
needs,” staff said.
Dollar General has recently
opened locations in Gearhart,
Clatskanie and Rockaway
Beach as part of a rapid expan-
sion into what the company
perceives as underserved rural
markets. Astoria’s Design
Review Committee last year
rejected the design for a pro-
posed Dollar General in the
Mill Pond neighborhood.
The new Dollar General in
Knappa would have produced
an estimated 583 daily trips,
with access about 75 feet south
of the intersection of Hillcrest
Loop and Highway 30. State
transportation officials had not
asked for any accommodations
for a Dollar General along
the highway, but county staff
found Cross Development had
not adequately addressed the
impact of vehicles queuing
near the intersection and out-
side the store’s parking lot.
“Queuing and stacking
would be exacerbated by situ-
ations where school buses and
emergency vehicles also are
trying to access the highway,”
the staff report said.
Local residents provided
impassioned pleas to deny
the application, arguing that
a large Dollar General would
undermine locally owned
businesses, not provide any
living-wage jobs, make the
highway’s intersection with
Hillcrest Loop less safe and
hurt the identity of Knappa.
“Do we want to be known
as Knappa, Oregon, home of
the Loggers, or do we just want
to be another chain store strip
mall?” asked Ted Messing.
Carol Webster argued on
behalf of the store, saying it
would add lower-priced goods,
keep people from having to
travel on Highway 30 to get
groceries and serve customers
who choose to go there.
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Nebeker ultimately denied
Cross Development’s condi-
tional use application and a
modification of the county’s
comprehensive plan to accom-
modate a new store. Com-
missioners Lisa Clement and
Lianne Thompson were not at
the meeting.
“I have also lived in differ-
ent rural communities,” Sul-
livan said. “I have seen the
results of deep, discounted,
large stores, and what that’s
done to communities in Mich-
igan and New Mexico, and
also here. I think that this type
of dynamic has been going on
for quite a while.”
After the meeting, Allen
said Cross Development
could appeal the county’s
decision.
the county commission, also
submitted into the record a
petition signed by about 40
people supporting the store.
The argument that Dollar
General would run other peo-
ple out of business simply isn’t
true, Allen said.
“A Dollar General store,
or any other store opening up,
does not directly run some-
body else out of business,”
he said. “It’s the consumer
choosing to go there instead
of choosing to go to a locally
owned shop is what drives
people out of business. So,
if there are very strong feel-
ings about shopping with local
residents’ businesses, that’s
great.”
But commissioners Lee,
Kathleen Sullivan and Sarah
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