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WWW.CANNONBEACHGAZETTE.COM Ec o Ash Street d tate Park Roa la S O ak Sixth St. St r e e re Ocean Avenue 7. Yukon Street at Milepost 30 8. Mid-Tolovana at Surfcrest Street 9. Haystack Heights and E. Chinook Street 10. Tolovana Mainline Road 3 Arbor Lane Su ns CLATSOP COUNTY 101 W. Delta St. 8 TOLOVANA BEACH STATE PARK Warren Way TOLOVANA PARK Inundation boundary (Maximum extent of Cascadia earthquake and tsunami event) Ocean Avenue Assembly area S. Hemlock Street Pacific Avenue State/local park W. Chinook Av enue Corp. city limit 4 d. 7 S. Hemlock Street 9 N 101 Source: City of Cannon Beach, Emergency Preparedness Committee 1,000 feet Alan Kenaga/EO Media Group 10 a M ainli . Rd ne Outlets would be few and far between ‘LESS THAN 20 PERCENT OF THE SURVIVORS CAN REACH A CACHE SITE IN A REASONABLE OR SAFE TIME. ’ Boone said she was running to Srotect education, SuElic saIety and to imSrove the region¶s economy. $s a legislator, Boone intro duced the Oregon Resilience Plan and helSed create a senior Solicy advisor Sosition on resilience in the governor¶s oI¿ ce, Sromoting renewaEle energy SroMects, ocean and ¿ sheries Solicy and services Ior seniors and veterans. Previously, Boone served years as a legislative assistant to seven legislators. She also served as a ClatsoS County commission er, among other roles. ³One oI my toS Sriorities is emergency and tsunami SreSared ness,´ Boone said in a Shone in terview Monday. See Boone, Page 7A See Zoning, Page 6A EMERGENCY COMMITTEE MEMBER CANNON BEACH ASSEMBLY SITE ESTIMATES The Three Estimated Most populated Assembly Areas in Cannon Beach Estimated total number of reaching all 10 assembly areas Cannon Beach Bible Church & Spruce Steet Arbor Lane, combined 1,980 1,582 1,015 6,742 = 100 people PAID PERMIT NO. 97 ASTORIA, OR PRSRT STD US POSTAGE DATA ACCORDING TO A STUDY CONDUCTED BY HARRY YEH , OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY Boone seeks re-election for seventh term By R.J. Marx Cannon Beach Gazette Rep. Deborah Boone an- nounced this week she will seek her se enth ter o o ice in re- gon House District . On Monday, Boone, who lives in Hamlet and whose oI¿ ce is in Cannon Beach, ¿ led Ior reelec tion to reSresent the district, which includes all oI ClatsoS and Sarts oI Tillamook and Deborah :ashington coun Boone ties. 6he is a mem Eer oI the House (nvironment and (nergy Commit tee, 9ice Chairwoman oI the 9et erans and (mergency PreSaredness Committee and a memEer oI the Human Services Committee. ³:e¶ve made Eig strides on Oregonians¶ Eiggest Sriorities, Eut we still have a lot oI work to do,´ Boone said in a statement. ³/ast year, we Sassed the largest . Eudget in state history, Iunded Iull day kindergarten Ior the ¿ rst time, and made Eig investments in high er education. :e also aSSroved Eonding Ior seismic uSgrades Ior schools and SuElic saIety Euild ings that will make them saIer in the event oI earthTuakes and will Srovide hundreds oI MoEs in the Srocess.´ Boone Eecame a memEer oI the House in $ugust 00, aIter she was named to reSlace ReS. (laine HoSson. ,n 0, Boone garnered Ser cent oI the vote, winning , votes to :arrenton ReSuElican Rick Rose¶s ,77. For Cannon Beach Gazette (ven iI the Cannon Beach City Council decides to allow retail mari Muana outlets in town, there would Ee Iew locations availaEle Ior them. The council will discuss the issue at the ne[t council meeting Eeginning FeE. , at 7 S.m. in City +all. ,I the council decides not to allow retail outlets, the issue must Ee suEmitted to voters, according to state law. The vote would occur ne[t 1ovemEer. City Planner Mark Barnes told the City Council during -anuary¶s work session that only the city¶s limited commercial ]one C would allow a recreational or medical disSensary or retail store as an outright use that could Ee Sermitted without a SuElic hearing. 2ther ]ones would reTuire a con ditional use Sermit, which means the aSSlicant would have to aSSear Ee Iore the city¶s Slanning commission to receive aSSroval. The city has three areas with the C ]one downtown, midtown and Tolovana Park. The area covered Ey C ]oning includes . acres and lots. MariMuana grow oSerations SroEa Ely would Ee allowed under the city¶s general commercial ]one C, which Sermits ³Slant nurseries,´ Barnes said. Cannon Beach¶s only C ]one is on the east side oI 8.6. +ighway 0. The ]one covers . acres and includes the city¶s SuElic works yard, a Paci¿ c Power suEstation, Cannon Beach Business Park and Coaster Construction. ([Sansion oI the ]one would reTuire the council to aSSrove amendments to the city¶s ]oning or dinance. MariMuanarelated Eusinesses ² stores that sell SaraShernalia Eut not mariMuana ² would Ee outright uses in Eoth the C and C ]ones, accord ing to Barnes. LES WIERSON, Eighth Street and Ecola Park Road Zoning code would limit retail pot sales By Nancy McCarthy See Prep, Page 2A Mid-Tolovana at Surfcrest 7he Iormer ¿ re chieI in Cannon Beach has ¿ led a lawsuit against the Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District alleging that his ¿ ring had noth ing to do with his MoE SerIormance. 0iNe Bal]er, who served as ¿ re chieI Irom -anuary 0 until he was ¿ red in 2ctoEer, claims the ¿ re district¶s Eoard Mike Balzer retaliated against him Eecause oI criti cal comments made Ey his wiIe on so cial media. +e also alleges that Eoard directors made comments aEout him aIter his ¿ ring that deIamed him and damaged his reSutation. Bal]er, who alleges Ereach oI contract, wrongIul discharge and deIamation, is asNing Ior more than ,000 in damages and his rein statement as ¿ re chieI. $n attorney reSresenting the ¿ re district¶s Eoard could not Ee reached Ior comment aEout the lawsuit, which was ¿ led in ClatsoS County Circuit Court in DecemEer. Bal]er¶s ¿ ring has caused an uS roar in Cannon Beach. See Balzar, Page 10A lov a n To 7hey ¿ rst will head to 0 assemEly areas Slotted out Ey the city¶s emergency SreSaredness commit tee But, while those assemEly areas are in Slaces that should Ee saIe Irom high water, they aren¶t out¿ tted with the suSSlies necessary to ensure survival $lthough city oI¿ cials originally Slanned to im mediately move survivors Irom the assemEly areas to three cache sites where Earrels containing residents¶ Sersonal suSSlies have Eeen stored, that Slan is Eeing reconsidered. ,nstead, the assemEly sites will have the temSorary shelters, Iood, water and communications gear neces sary to helS SeoSle Ior a Iew days until the initial crisis has suEdued. $ maS distriEuted Ey /es :ierson, a memEer oI the emergency committee, during the committee¶s worN session -an. , shows that the roads leading to the cache sites, as well as 8.6. +ighway 0, will Ee closed due to deEris. 7he deEris ± Iallen trees Irom the Cascadia suEduction ]one earthTuaNe that will trigger Local route Blv 5 U.S. highway hen a tsunami washes over Cannon Beach, where will the estimated nearly 7,000 survivors go? et 6 HAYSTACK HILL STATE PARK Pacific Ocean Elk Creek Road E. CANNON BEACH Legend For Cannon Beach Gazette Haskell Lane E. Van Buren St. Fire Sunset Blvd. Station S. Pacific Street By Nancy McCarthy 101 E. Monroe Street City Hall e Pacific Driv When the tsunami hits… then what? Haystack Rock EO Media Group N. Spruce Street W. First Street Ex-fi re chief sues over fi ring Balzer claims breach of contract, wrongful discharge, more ek E. Second Street 5. Spruce Street and Arbor Lane 6. Elk Creek Road Fi Cannon Beach Elementary School E. Third St. 3. Cannon Beach Bible Church, Hills Lane 4. Sunset Blvd. treet r S LES SHIRLEY PARK Elk La nd Dr ive 2. Sixth Street and Old Cannon Beach Road 2 Sixth Street Ecola C 1. Eighth Street and Ecola State Park Road t Designated tsunami evacuation assembly areas BIG ONE W 101 Bird Rocks After the COMPLIMENTARY COPY 1 CHAPMAN POINT TSUNAMI PREPARATION S. Hemlock Street JANUARY 29, 2016 • VOL. 40, ISSUE 3 Top priorities
