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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
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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.