January 19, 2018
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Homes: Projects near Costco, Kalmia and Skipanon River get approval
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founded in 1955, has more
than 140 stores in 19 states,
all of them west of the Mis-
sissippi. The company sells
only organic produce, pas-
ture-based dairy products and
free-range eggs.
Here is a run-down of the
recent housing project ap-
provals:
J etty a partments
The project fronts High-
way 101 catty-cornered from
Ocean Crest at Highway 101
Business. It’s in the prelim-
inary stages, whereby the
applicant and city staff are
determining what will and
won’t work at the site.
The moderately sloped
property abuts county-owned
property behind the Goodwill
store that has wetlands.
“The development … pro-
vides needed higher-density
housing on a site that is close
to employment and will re-
duce energy costs,” Commu-
nity Development Director
Skip Urling wrote in a report
on the project.
Plans are to build four
buildings, each full of
two-bedroom two-bathroom
apartments, with a centrally
located play area. It would be
built in phases, one building
at a time.
As with most projects, some
tweaking will be done to the
first plans submitted, includ-
ing making one of the roads
through the project wider
and designing the trash area
so it’s better accessible to city
trash trucks and somewhat
hidden from public view.
“Existing trees in the ODOT
right of way and a couple
large trees already on the
property will be remaining,”
said Morgan, the project’s en-
gineer. “It won’t be very visi-
ble through the trees.”
r ooseVelt s uBdIVIsIon
North River Homes plans to
put in 74 single-family homes
The vacant parcel on the left foreground will become South
Juniper Gardens, a 10-lot subdivision approved by Warren-
ton Planning Commission.
as a continuation of the For-
est Rim planned develop-
ment. The 64-acre parcel is
part of the Warrenton Fiber
Company’s holdings.
The project would be behind
the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Office and accessible through
a new street near there as well
as an extension of Southeast
Willow Drive in Forest Rim.
It will include several parks
and would be developed in
three phases. Streets in the
project would be named Roo-
sevelt, Double Eagle, Timber
Country and Tall Fir.
Adam Svensen of North Riv-
er Homes, one of the builders
of The Reserve in Gearhart,
said they’ve been working to
ensure it has the look and feel
of an upscale development
but is financially affordable to
Warrenton’s base population.
“Every lot in The Re-
serve and on every lot here,
we’ve thought about views,”
Svensen said. “And this is a
nice spot.”
Lots would be about 12,000
square feet and the homes
1,600 to 2,000 square feet.
s outH J unIper g ardens
Michael Johnson plans to
build 10 homes or townho-
mes on a large parcel on Ju-
niper Avenue, just south of
Kalmia Avenue and all the
new housing there. He’d need
to build a new road through
the middle of the project.
Planning
Commissioner
Ken Yuill asked the developer
if all the homes would be sin-
gle-family residences. Jen-
nifer Bunch of Wickiup Con-
sulting said that hadn’t been
determined yet, some may be
condos or townhouses. Yuill’s
was the only “no” vote for
South Juniper Gardens’ pre-
liminary plat map.
s kIpanon r IVer area rezone
Stan Johnson of Astoria
Northwest Homes asked
to rezone a .75-acre parcel
from mid-range density to
high-density residential.
His property is on the north
side of the Skipanon River,
just north of the bridge on
Highway 101 Alternate. While
he was not ready to submit
building plans, the change in
zoning “represents a logical
progression from the west
side of the river to the east
side of the river,” said Bunch,
a consultant on this project as
well.
Resident Terry Miller wrote
a letter to the Planning Com-
mission expressing concern
about traffic on the highway
and resident Dennis Filet-
ti, who lives near the future
project, asked the city to
ensure drainage issues are
dealth with.
The zone change was unani-
mously approved.
A parcel just past the bridge over the Skipanon River and on
the left won approval for a zone change, allowing the owner
to increase the number of housing units he’d build. Lum’s
Auto Center and Home Depot are just visible to the right.