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sought a variance to make
the driveway longer while
keeping it to the less onerous
design standards of an alley-
way rather than a road.
Adam Dailey, Osburn’s
engineer on the project,
argued that the buildings
cannot be accessed from
Highway 101 and need the
longer alleyway from Dol-
phin Avenue. He compared
the access to Osburn’s site
like the alleys at the North
Coast Retail Center that let
drivers access TLC Fed-
eral Credit Union behind
Walmart, or several busi-
nesses to the west of Discov-
ery Lane near Costco.
“It’s a cluster develop-
ment of commercial use
where people navigate
through the parking lots,”
Dailey said of Osburn’s proj-
ect . “It’s not a through road.
You’re serving businesses.
It’s a parking lot.”
The access is large
enough for fi re and garbage
trucks, Dailey said.
Planning commission-
ers commiserated with the
developers about such drive-
ways accessing multiple
businesses in places like the
North Coast Retail Center,
but wanted to hear the coun-
terarguments of city staff.
They opted to continue the
public hearing on the project
until August.
“It does seem like there’s
confusion on what’s between
a street and parking lot,”
Planning
Commissioner
Mike Moha said. “ ... It’s a
huge difference on what has
to be met, as far as upgrades
and lighting and sidewalks.”
Approving the project
will allow Osburn to start
seeking tenants for the future
buildings , Morgan said. Dol-
phin Avenue, out of the tsu-
nami inundation zone, has
slowly been fi lling up with
larger industrial and newer
government users, includ-
ing the Oregon State Police,
Clatsop County, the mem-
ory care center and Warren-
ton-Hammond School Dis-
trict’s new master campus.
“That Dolphin Avenue
is really becoming sort of a
mixed-use commercial-in-
dustrial hub, if you will, as
opposed to the retail cen-
ters,” Morgan said.
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Ryan Osburn is planning to relocate his plumbing company
and develop a builders complex around Clatsop Care Health
District’s memory care center using a shared driveway.
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These measures, estab-
lished in March and April, did
not begin to ease until June.
Recreational halibut fi sheries
opened elsewhere on the Ore-
gon Coast in May, and now
it’s the North Coast’s turn.
A halibut fi shery opens
off the Columbia River next
month, and Smith is readying
his gear.
“We couldn’t fi sh essen-
tially from March through
about the middle of June,”
Smith said. “So to make up for
some of those losses, we’re
going to do some halibut.”
The coronavirus has hit
nearly everyone in some way,
he added.
“2020, for every industry,
it’s just been a perfect storm
of a mess,” he said. “It’s the
year that we’ve got to try to
survive and make it to next
year.”
Pacifi c halibut, like many
fi sh, make you wonder who
exactly was the fi rst per-
son to look at one and think,
“I’m sure this weird animal is
delicious.”
In a normal year, the rec-
reational halibut fi shery off
the Columbia River can draw
many anglers to the Oregon
and Washington state coasts
in the spring. Sea Breeze
Charters in Ilwaco sees quite a
few reservations made a year
ahead. The majority of their
Butch Smith | owner of Coho Charters in Ilwaco
customers come from out of
town, often from cities off the
Interstate 5 corridor, but also
from across the country.
Spring halibut fi shing acts
as the kickoff for Sea Breeze
boats and business is usually
brisk. Salmon and albacore
follow close behind as spring
turns into summer, keeping
boats consistently busy.
This year, co-owner Pat-
rick Schenk wonders if he
will see much of a profi t from
the halibut fi shery.
In addition to his boat
maintenance costs, moorage
and insurance — costs other
boat operators must consider
as well — he also has the
costs of keeping the charter
company building and busi-
ness operational.
Other fi sheries will already
be in motion and social dis-
tancing requirements will
limit how many people can
go out on a boat at once. With
the late start , charter compa-
nies lost out on people who
had planned a halibut fi sh-
ing trip around a May or June
vacation.
“Luckily,” Schenk said,
“last year was a good year.
I’m not fi guring to make any
money, but I’d like to mini-
mize my losses.”
With the coronavirus out-
break in full swing in the
Pacifi c Northwest, state fi sh-
ery managers looking at a
season for the Columbia
River Subarea had to juggle
local and state guidelines and
restrictions with a fi shery that
is informed by federal and
international groups as well
as the states . They decided to
wait to open the fi shery here.
They did not want to
open in a way that would tar-
get fi shing like a laser beam,
especially “when the commu-
nities weren’t quite ready for
it, ” said Lynn Mattes, hali-
but project leader for the Ore-
gon Department of Fish and
Wildlife.
The halibut quota pro-
vided for the Columbia River
Subarea is a small percentage
of the overall halibut quota
recreational fi shermen are
allowed in a season across the
West Coast.
In the all-depth halibut
fi shery, the quota can get
eaten up fairly quickly by
May or mid-June. The near-
shore fi shery continues on
for longer, but with minimal
effort and landings.
With the usual start time
disrupted, it may take anglers
a little longer to dial in where
the fi sh are in August, Mattes
said.
At this point, the states
plan to propose a May open-
ing for halibut fi shing off the
Columbia River at meetings
this fall, but Mattes expects
the coronavirus pandemic
will continue to be a factor in
their discussions.
She anticipates a season
proposal that includes some
caveat along the lines of,
“This is what we’re planning,
but …”
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