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Sixth St.
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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
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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
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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
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