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14A • March 13, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com Council discusses how to proceed on gravel roads has agreed it wants and is willing to pay for. in a public hearing people “I fear we’re making (outside the neighborhood) an adversarial situation for can say they don’t want ourselves,” Vetter said. it paved,” said Councilor “It makes me a little un- 0LNH%HQH¿HOGZKRDGGHG comfortable telling them that those who don’t live in the neighborhood shouldn’t have that much control. ‘I fear we’re But Mayor Sam Steidel making an noted that second-home- owners who might live in adversarial larger cities where all the situation for streets are paved and who think their neighborhoods ourselves’ should also be paved might not understand that it is with- George Vetter, Cannon in Cannon Beach’s character Beach city councilor to have gravel roads. “I want to make sure the public has the right to say that they don’t want the they can get their street streets to be paved,” Steidel paved, but maybe not,” he said. added. Councilor George Vet- But Councilor Wendy ter also expressed concern Higgins noted that “people that the public — and the want to be heard.” City Council — might “Yeah, sometimes it gets have too much say over emotional, but that’s our what a local neighborhood job,” she said. Roads from Page 1A City Manager Brant Kucera agreed. “If you’re asking people to pay 20 percent of the cost, they have a right to be heard,” he said. But, he added, “People across town aren’t going to be affected. I would hope that the government body takes into account that 98 percent of the neighbor- hood wants it.” Councilor Melissa Cad- wallader noted that, if the City Council is required WR PDNH WKH ¿QDO GHFLVLRQ then “We have to hear all sides.” Cadwallader also asked Grassick whether the veg- etation in the neighborhood would be taken into ac- count when the street de- sign is drawn. Grassick said the paving would generally follow the existing right of way. Local roads that wind around trees now will re- main that way, even if they are paved, he said. Reception set for artist Angela Woods A reception for artist An- gela Woods is planned from 5 to 6 p.m. March 27 in the Northwest By Northwest Gallery, 232 N. Spruce St. Woods’ paintings will be on display through April 10 as part of the gallery’s ex- hibition of contemporary western oil paintings. Her vision comes from a love of the West, enhanced by a childhood spent riding horses and playing with Navajo children while her mother worked as an an- thropologist. Woods’ ex- SHULHQFHV LQÀXHQFHG KHU world view and encouraged respect for the land, ani- mals and humans. “I would like my paint- ings to evoke a feeling or memory through simple SUBMITTED PHOTO SUBMITTED PHOTO Contemporary western oil painter Angela Woods de- veloped her love for animals as a child. 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