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PUBLIC MEETINGS
Tuesday, March 15
Thursday, April 21
Cannon Beach Public Works, 9 a.m.,
City Hall 163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach Design Review
Board, City Hall, 6 p.m. 163 E.
Gower St.
Seaside School District, 6 p.m., 1801
S. Franklin St.
Thursday, March 17
Cannon Beach Design Review
Board, City Hall, 6 p.m. 163 E.
Gower St.
Friday, March 23
Cannon Beach Emergency Pre-
paredness Committee, 10 a.m.,
City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach Planning Commis-
sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Friday, April. 29
Cannon Beach Emergency Pre-
paredness Committee, 10 a.m.,
City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Tuesday, May 17
Cannon Beach Public Works, 9 a.m.,
City Hall 163 E. Gower St.
Thursday, March 24
Seaside School District, 6 p.m., 1801
S. Franklin St.
Cannon Beach Planning Commis-
sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Thursday, May 19
Tuesday, April 19
Cannon Beach Public Works, 9 a.m.,
City Hall 163 E. Gower St.
Seaside School District, 6 p.m., 1801
S. Franklin St.
Cannon Beach Design Review
Board, City Hall, 6 p.m. 163 E.
Gower St.
Thursday, May 26
Cannon Beach Planning Commis-
sion, 6 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Letters: Two sides to
development issue
Letters from Page 5A
use attorney. Why should tax-
payers pay a lawyer to help a
developer circumvent the city’s
codes? To continue to bend the
rules, ignore the Planning Com-
mission and city code, and give
favorable code interpretations
to this developer would set a
dangerous precedent, which
would make it easier for future
developers to expect the same
lenient treatment.
We want to again thank
the planning commissioners
for their hard work and tire-
less dedication to ensuring the
city codes are followed. It was
exceedingly clear during their
Jan. 28 meeting that all of
the commissioners had done
their homework, followed the
code, were willing to ask hard
questions and engage in a
thoughtful discussion, which
led to their unanimous denial
of this proposal.
If you agree that the Can-
non Beach City Council needs
to deny the proposal for a
PUD on the Nicholson prop-
erty, we urge you to attend
the council meeting at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March 1.
Fred and Elizabeth
Lorish
Eugene
Adhere to city codes
I am not writing to badger
you about Jeff Nicholson’s
Planned Unit Development.
My concern is that whatever
you decide to do about the ap-
plicant’s PUD that it be done
in accordance with the city
code about PUDs and from
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tions you have received from
the Cannon Beach Planning
Commission.
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PUD in Cannon Beach, we
should all agree that this PUD
be done right. If the appli-
cant’s proposal does not com-
ply with the Cannon Beach
zoning code for PUDs, then it
should be rejected.
Many changes have been
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be the restoration of an histor-
ic house and the building of a
small additional house. The
applicant apparently lost sight
of his goals and has redoubled
his efforts, causing much con-
fusion. When the applicant
threatened the city with a law-
suit, staff, working from a po-
sition of weakness, suggested
a PUD. We aren’t, as the ap-
plicant’s attorney said, trying
to take another bite out of the
apple; nor are we just acting
like spoilsports because some
changes are going to be made
to that sloped area.
All that the citizens in op-
position want is for the city to
require the applicant to adhere
to the city codes. Setting a
precedent by allowing him to
violate them will make it easi-
er for every developer coming
to town to threaten a lawsuit
in order to avoid conforming
with the city zoning code.
Historically, Cannon Beach
has not caved in to threats like
this. Please don’t start now.
Rex Amos
Cannon Beach
Kiosks, markers to help people
get to tsunami safety zone
Signs to
lead way to
assembly areas
By Lyra Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
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a tsunami safe zone in Cannon
Beach might get a little easier,
with help from a state grant.
The city will put up kiosks,
as well as markers on streets
and the beach, to help guide
people to safety in case of an
emergency. “These three con-
cepts are part of emergency
outreach and education fo-
cused on helping visitors and
residents get to safety,” Public
Works Director Dan Grassick
said. “We’re trying to make it
intuitive.”
The city’s Emergency Pre-
paredness Committee received
a $30,000 grant from the Ore-
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agement to help build and put
up three informational kiosks,
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tion posts, and a dozen pave-
ment markers for the tsunami
line that lets people know they
reached the “safe zone.”
”The paintings on the pave-
ment is intended to be if you’re
not sure that where you’re are,
if you see the blue and white
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heading in the right direction,”
Grassick said.
The emergency prepared-
ness committee discussed the
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Kiosks will be located in downtown Cannon Beach on
Second Street and Spruce Street, near the Midtown bus
shelter, and on the Tolovana Wayside. Pictured, evacua-
tion routes in north Tolovana.
new resources that will orient
and direct people on where to
go when an emergency occurs
at its Feb. 11 work session.
Kiosks will be located in
downtown Cannon Beach
on Second Street and Spruce
Street, near the Midtown bus
shelter, and on the Tolovana
Wayside.
One panel will include
emergency preparation infor-
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nami evacuation route map to
highlight the kiosk’s location.
The second panel will display
the Cannon Beach Visitors
Center’s upcoming monthly
events, and the third panel will
showcase local recreational at-
tractions, such as Ecola State
Park and the new marine re-
serve.
“These will look different
from the typical informational
kiosk,” City Manager Brant
Kucera said at the emergency
preparedness committee work
session.
The Emergency Prepared-
ness Committee will work with
the city’s public arts committee,
which helped renovate Whale
Park in 2014, on the kiosks’ ap-
City Council gathers at team-building retreat
By Lyra Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
The mayor, City Council
and city manager gathered
in a team-building session at
Haystack Gardens Saturday,
Feb. 6, for a team-building
session led by facilitator Jan
Carothers from Portland.
The employees demon-
strated camaraderie, a will-
ingness to work together, and
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a desire to better understand
and communicate with one
another.
Concerns were raised
about the ability of new
members to get acquainted
with working on a council.
As two council members
Wendy Higgins and Melis-
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their terms on City Council,
the possibility of creating
resources to guide new coun-
cilors was considered.
Many also echoed that it
was important to support city
staff, which they praised as
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Activities included a writ-
ing exercise through which
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what they wanted for them-
selves and the Council, such
as active listening, mutual re-
spect, stronger relationships,
more knowledge of each oth-
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pearance. They hope to “create
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The 7-foot-tall kiosks will
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putting up eight posts, with iri-
descent paint that will glow af-
ter sunset, that mark the egress
of the beach with iridescent
paint that will glow after sun-
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The kiosks and markers are
part of a larger plan to be ready
for emergencies. The emer-
gency preparedness committee
meets again on Feb. 26 and the
city co-hosts the Focus on Pre-
paredness forum on March 3.
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