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November 17, 2017 T he C olumbia P ress Chamber of commerce director to retire Chamber of Commerce Director Skip Hauke an- nounced this week that he plans to retire from his posi- tion next year. “I have been blessed with the greatest staff and board of directors that one could ever imagine, plus more than 640 wonderful and support- ive members, making the Astoria-Warrenton Chamber the largest and best on the Oregon Coast,” Hauke told the board. “I am very proud of what our chamber has accomplished during my 13 years, but 98 percent of the credit goes to the staff.” Hauke joined the chamber staff in Jan- uary 2005, after 40 years of operating his family’s Sentry Mar- kets in Astoria. The markets had been in the Hauke family for 110 years. David Reid, who with his wife owns Lu- cy’s Books, has been named Hauke’s re- placement. The Reids moved to Astoria in 2002 when he took a new job as district sales coordinator for Aflac. Continued from Page 1 instead of in phases. The large parcel is being viewed by the city in its en- tirety, with houses, roads and utilities grouped along Ridge Road on the west side and most of the property left undeveloped as wetlands and other natural areas. When the Planning Com- mission approved the project in August, it placed 29 condi- tions on the developer before construction can begin. The conditions include building one or more neigh- borhood parks, assessing storm water drainage, mak- ing a video inspection of the sewer system, widening some streets proposed in the project and building a safe crossing from the project to Fort Stevens State Park. “This appeal has cost our client quite a bit of time,” said Adam Dailey, an engineer representing Fort Pointe. When the project was ap- proved, one of the partners said they want Fort Pointe built as soon as possible “giv- en the immediate need for housing.” Also on Tuesday, the com- mission grappled with Mayor Henry Balensifer’s proposal to ban ministorage facilities from the city’s main entry- ways: Main Avenue and Har- bor Drive, plus Pacific Drive in Hammond. A change to the city’s devel- opment code, which would have banned new storage units west of Highway 101, was rejected by the Planning Commission as too broad. “I don’t have anything against ministorage facili- ties, I just want to keep them off the frontage roads of en- trances to downtown corri- dors,” Balensifer said. Reid has been a chamber ambassador since 2003 and board member since 2011. He has served on the downtown associa- tion’s Business Devel- opment Committee Hauke since 2012 and was president of the Ro- tary Club in 2008-09. He was honored with the chamber’s George Award in 2014. In 2016, Reid be- came lead adviser for Clatsop Community Reid College’s Small Busi- ness Development Center. Fort Pointe: Commission denies appeal Commissioner Pam Ackley agreed that keeping the city’s entrances visually appealing is important. “I think we definitely need to revisit this,” she said. “I don’t think we put enough thought into this.” The commission agreed to form a committee to craft a more specific ordinance or code change that wouldn’t af- fect existing ministorage fa- cilities, but would make new ones subject to additional conditions, such as setbacks from main roads and land- scaping. 5 Seaside author to speak Sunday Author Gloria of Seaside Museum Linkey will share & Historical Society research from her and a member of just-released book, the Lewis and Clark “A Town Called Trail Heritage Foun- Seaside,” at 1 p.m. dation. Her previous Sunday, Nov. 19, books are “Native in the Netul River American Women: Room in the Fort Three Who Changed Linkey Clatsop Visitor History” and “Abby Center. Rescues Animals.” Her talk is part of the “A Town Called Seaside” monthly “In Their Foot- will be available for pur- steps” free speaker series chase at the event. sponsored by the parkw. Linkey’s earlier history Linkey’s book looks at book is available at the Seaside’s progression from park’s bookstore. There will a summer resort in the sign books following her 1940s to the thriving tourist presentation. attraction and community For more information, it is today. call the park at 503-861- Linkey is past president 2471.
