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The week ahead
Public Meetings
Groups & Events
M onday
t uesday
• Warrenton City Com-
mission, 6 p.m., City Hall,
225 S. Main Ave.
• Earth Day. This worldwide
celebration promoting a clean
environment has been held on
April 22 each year since 1970.
W ednesday
W ednesday
• Clatsop County Board
of Commissioners, 6 p.m.,
857 Commercial St., Astoria.
• Children’s Storytime,
“Celebrating Dr. Seuss,” 10:30
a.m., Warrenton Community
Library, 160 S. Main Ave.
t hursday
• Sunset Empire Trans-
portation District Board,
9 a.m., Astoria Transit Center,
900 Marine Drive.
• Clatsop County Recre-
ational Lands Planning
Advisory Board, 1 p.m.,
800 Exchange St., Fourth
Floor, Astoria.
• Kiwanis Club of Warren-
ton, 1 p.m., Arnie’s Cafe, 1609
S. Main Ave.
• Warrenton Rotary Club, 6
p.m., Dooger’s, 103 S. Highway
101.
s aturday
• Children’s Storytime,
“Celebrating Dr. Seuss,” 10:30
a.m., Warrenton Community
Library, 160 S. Main Ave.
April 19, 2019
Warriors varsity baseball team riding a 5-2 season
Warrenton High School’s
baseball team walked away
with a double-header win last
week.
In two games against Taft
High School in Lincoln City,
the Warriors came away with
7-5 and 3-2 wins.
Then on Monday against
Willamina, the team breezed
to a 21-1 win. There have been
two losses so far this season,
1-7 against Knappa on March
13 and 1-8 against Santiam
Christian on March 29.
Debbie Morrow/for The Columbia Press
Devin Jackson waits for the pitch while Jake Morrow prepares to
come home.
County Commission seeks citizens for advisory panels
The Clatsop County Board
of Commissioners made some
appointments to the Com-
prehensive Plan Update Citi-
zen Advisory Committees on
March 27, yet more members
are needed.
Representatives are need-
ed to serve on six advisory
panels as part of a 33-month
project to update the county’s
six community plans and the
comprehensive plan.
“We’re looking for county
residents, property owners,
business owners and/or em-
ployees from the unincorpo-
rated areas of the county to
join representatives from oth-
er county boards and commis-
sions in recruiting stakehold-
er input, advising staff and
providing recommendations
regarding the update of Clat-
sop County’s guiding planning
documents,” county spokes-
man Tom Bennett wrote.
The application period clos-
es May 3. Applications can be
found on the county website,
co.clatsop.or.us, or at the coun-
ty manager’s office, 800 Ex-
change St., Suite 410, Astoria.
Clear Lake: Site borders wetlands on three sides
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Pam Ackley, Broker
“Significant clearing and
grading of the site occurred
last year prior to any approv-
als for such activity,” Commu-
nity Development Director
Kevin Cronin wrote in a staff
report.
The property owner/appli-
cant was warned and activity
ceased.
“There are locally signifi-
cant wetlands out there and
they need to be protected,”
Caplinger said. “That’s an ex-
tremely long dead-end road
and a promise of some vague
future road doesn’t satisfy due
diligence.”
The eight-acre site is bor-
dered by wetlands on three
sides, with Clear Lake, a nat-
ural area owned by North
Coast Land Conservancy, to
the south. Fort Pointe, a fu-
ture planned development, is
to the north with wetlands be-
tween them. There’s a gravel
access road on the west end
that could connect to Ridge
Road in the future.
Gil Gramson has completed
two other subdivisions along
Kalmia, one of them 17 lots
and one 11 lots.
Because each project was
completed separately, there
were no triggers that prompt-
ed the city to require parkland
to be set aside or other sec-
ondary access roads to go in.
“A lot of this seems very
gray and subjective and I’m
very black and white,” Com-
missioner Ryan Lampi said.
“While I don’t like to delay
processes, but there’s a lot
here that needs to be revisited
by me.”
The project returns to the
Planning Commission at its 6
p.m. April 25 meeting.