4 T he C olumbia P ress October 18, 2019 Property tax bills in the mail Property tax statements for the 2019-20 tax year are arriving in mailboxes this week. Property tax bills this year ac- count for $90.9 million. The taxes cover county government services, city services, education, Port of As- toria, rural fire and, in Warrenton, the city’s library and future middle school campus. Taxes increased by about 8 per- cent over last year. Tax payments are due by Nov. 15 to receive a 3 percent early payment discount. Fast food: 3 new cafes Continued from Page 1 to accommodate two anticipated quick-serve restaurant uses,” states her letter to the city. Re-use of the 6,600-square-foot former restaurant first was pro- posed last year. More recently, the company submitted a request with plans to also put a 2,325-square- foot drive-through across the park- ing lot from Doogers and adjacent to Harbor. No new roads or drive- ways would be built to accommo- date traffic going in or out of the shopping center. To make the plan happen, the developer would move the front wall of the current Dooger’s build- ing back and add five new park- ing stalls between the front of the building and the highway right of way. The former restaurant would be divided into two separate spac- es and there would be improved parking on two other sides of the building, pedestrian pathways, im- proved landscaping and a revised exterior garbage enclosure. Community Development Direc- tor Kevin Cronin said he’d been given no indication of what brands of restaurants might go in. A call to Baysinger Partners wasn’t returned Wednesday. The developer that has proposed a Burger King in the North Coast Business Park is not as far along, Cronin said, and site restrictions there could pose problems.