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DailyAstorian.com // WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2019
146TH YEAR, NO. 152
SPORTS • A10
ONE DOLLAR
After the big one, the
Oregon Coast will need
to get supplies by sea
A new
hotel
wins city
approval
Scouting landing
sites on the beach
Partnership between
Buoy Beer, Adrift Hotel
By KATIE FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
S
tarting this winter, emer-
gency managers will
work with the Navy to
fi nd locations on the Ore-
gon Coast where supplies can be
landed after a major earthquake
and tsunami.
The project came out of the
Cascadia Rising e xercise in 2016,
which highlighted issues the coast
would likely experience trying
to resupply after a disaster. Most
roads to the coast will likely be
damaged and almost all airports —
including the Astoria Regional Air-
port in Warrenton — are in the tsu-
nami inundation zone.
“One of our challenges is the
location of our airport,” said Tif-
fany Brown, the Clatsop County
emergency manager. “We have
very limited real estate with that
kind of planning in mind.”
Clatsop and Lincoln counties are
the fi rst to work with the Navy and
the Oregon Military Department to
identify and map out landing sites
on beaches. Initially, the military’s
job would be to bring fuel and pub-
lic works equipment on an amphib-
ious type of hovercraft .
See Supplies, Page A8
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
ABOVE: The USS Portland docks at the Port of Astoria in April. BELOW: The
USS Portland pulls into the Port. The Navy will likely be critical in getting
supplies to the coast after a disaster.
Plans by the developers of Buoy Beer
Co. and the Adrift Hotel to turn a former
anchovy processing plant into a 40-room
hotel over the Columbia River received
approval Tuesday night from the Astoria
Planning Commission.
Work on the hotel, which will be
located at the base of Ninth Street next
door to Buoy Beer, could begin as early
as April, said Tiffany Turner, the CEO
of Adrift Hotels Social Purpose Corp. in
Long Beach, Washington.
Parking was the only sticking point for
several planning commissioners, but they
concluded that parking availability in and
around downtown is a larger problem that
should be tackled outside of one project.
The Astoria Downtown Historic District
Association is still working to complete a
downtown parking study.
Surrounding businesses and property
owners are also worried about the impact
on parking, but support the hotel project
— Buoy Beer has been a good neighbor,
one adjoining property owner said.
The area, which includes a mix of two -
hour limit and no-limit parking spots,
is already heavily used by people who
work downtown, as well as by visitors. A
new dialysis center is under construction
between Sixth Street and Seventh Street
near Buoy Beer, building over what was
once a large public parking lot.
See Hotel, Page A7
‘THE END GOAL IS THAT OUR COMMUNITY WILL RECOVER,
REBUILD AND CARRY ON. SO HAVING ALL THIS PLANNING
IN PLACE MAKES SURE THAT MY LITTLE COMMUNITIES
ON THE BEAUTIFUL COAST WILL SURVIVE.’
Jenny Demaris | emergency manager in Lincoln City
Lawmakers
look to ban
drilling
Offshore moratorium
would be permanent
By PARIS ACHEN
Oregon Capital Bureau
State legislators this year want to per-
manently prohibit oil and gas drilling off
the Oregon Coast, although no one has
shown an interest in poking a hole in the
coastal fl oor.
Despite a call from the Trump admin-
istration last year to open up the waters to
drilling, the industry itself has shown no
serious interest .
“At this time, there is not a lot of
chomping at the bit to look at produc-
tion off the coast of Oregon,” said Kevin
Slagle, a spokesman for Western States
Petroleum Association.
See Drilling, Page A7
Life in a measles outbreak
Canceled parties,
doctor visits in a
parking lot
By MOLLY SOLOMON
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Patients in Washington
state who visit The Vancou-
ver Clinic are greeted with
free face masks and pumps
of hand sanitizer.
A large sign outside urgent
care alerts patients who have
measles symptoms — say a
runny nose or a high fever
— to put on a mask before
entering the waiting room.
“If you haven’t been
immunized or don’t know,
we’d like you to wear a
mask,” said Marcia Sparling,
the clinic’s medical director .
Two of her facilities are
among more than three
dozen locations where peo-
ple may have been exposed
to measles. Other places
include an Ikea, Costco and a
Portland Trail Blazers game.
Sparling says the clinic
recently created a measles
task force that meets daily.
Sometimes, doctors and
nurses see patients in the
parking lot to avoid contam-
ination. They’re also asking
patients with measles symp-
toms to come later in the day
to avoid spreading the illness
during busy hours.
“We’re trying to be as
careful as we can because
we’d like to try to shut
down this infection chain,”
Sparling said.
The outbreak started in
s outhwest
Washington’s
Clark County, but has been
spreading. One case has
been confi rmed across the
river in Portland and another
has been identifi ed in Seat-
tle. Health offi cials say they
suspect another case linked
to the outbreak in Deschutes
County.
See Measles, Page A7
Molly Solomon/Oregon Public Broadcasting
Vancouver, Wash., resident Megan Jasurta holds her 11-week
old son, Tristan. During the measles outbreak, she hasn’t left
the house with Tristan, who is too young to be vaccinated.