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BUSINESS
Higgins, Cadwallader look
DIRECTORY
back on two terms of service
M INI -S TORAGE
By Lyra Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
With a limit of eight contin-
uous years for Cannon Beach
councilors, Melissa Cadwal-
lader and Wendy Higgins end
their City Council terms in
January, leaving two vacant
spots on November’s ballot.
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candidates can declare candi-
dacy for November’s gener-
al election. Cadwallader and
Higgins, both elected in 2008,
shared their council experi-
ences and hopes for coming
months.
Higgins was Chamber of
Commerce president before
the business community en-
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As The Ocean Lodge’s general
manager for 14 years, she has
balanced a full-time job with
councilor duties.
Cadwallader, now Council
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Wendy
Higgins
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Cadwallader
the acreage in 2010 through
clever trade-offs.
“It was a very creative
way of getting an additional
800 at an affordable price to
make sure that we had 1,000
acres that we were in control
of around our water source for
our city,” Cadwallader said.
“I’m pleased to have been a
part of that team.”
Higgins said she is also
proud of serving on the coun-
cil that started the Tourism
and Arts Commission and ap-
proved a lodging tax increase
“to help advertise and promote
our community.”
a council vacancy after Mayor
John Williams’s unexpected
death, then was elected by vot-
ers. She belonged to the Ecola
Creek Forest Reserve Com-
mittee, Parks Committee and
Budget Committee; was Clat-
sop County’s local government
representative for the Cape
Falcon Marine Reserve; and Strategic plan
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During their last months on
of Haystack Rock.
council, Cadwallader and Hig-
gins look forward to the strate-
Forest expansion
gic plan.
Cadwallader said she
Purchasing the additional
805 acres of the Ecola Creek hopes the plan will “get some
watershed for the Ecola Creek meat on its bones” and be-
Forest Reserve, creating 1,040 come a reality. With citizen
connected acres of city-owned surveys out and facilitators in-
forest, stands out for both terviewing department heads,
councilors as an accomplish- she said it is “in the process of
happening.”
ment during their terms.
“Doing the strategic plan
The watershed was state
land before the city acquired is huge because we’ve nev-
er done that before,” Higgins
said. “I think having direction
and a road map to pass on to
the next incoming councilors
will make it a little bit easier.”
Higgins also said she hopes
that the council will work on
“raising up leaders to take our
places.”
Affordable housing
The affordable workforce
housing issue has always been
a priority for Higgins. “I know
that one won’t be resolved by
the time I leave, but hopefully
it will stay in the queue.”
Cadwallader said she still
stands by issues she stood for
in 2008. This includes “main-
taining the uniqueness of Can-
non Beach as both a residential
and resort community, with re-
sources for the child, the fami-
ly and the honored citizen.”
“I think this is still a major
issue,” she said. “Since I ini-
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ago, the scale between com-
munity and destination resort
I think has shifted more into
the destination resort and our
community core has become
smaller.”
Rental rules need some tweaking
“It’s easy to jump the con-
Rentals from Page 1A
clusion that there’s the source
If a violation is uncov- of the affordable housing prob-
ered, the city does not allow lem,” Barnes said of the city’s
the homeowner to rent it out short-term rentals. “I don’t
until the problem is corrected, know if that’s necessarily true
City Manager Kucera said. because I don’t know if all 194
“Almost all of them want to of those dwelling units would
correct them and get back into convert to long term rentals or
permanent occupancy.”
business.”
However, the 10 percent
However, the current con-
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only able to inspect homes for effect” on housing availabili-
ty, Barnes said. “That’s a not
10 hours per week.
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would also enforce code, by now.”
Several councilors said that
July 1. Staff proposed that the
employee work 24 hours a short-term rentals make up at
week and three times a week. least 20 percent of the city’s
The city budget for the number of second homes.
Kucera said there are more
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the addition of a building of-
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housing units than house-
holds, which are about 760,
suggesting that a large por-
tion of housing units, about 60
percent, are second homes or
not currently occupied by the
resident.
a month, you’ll never make
it available for residents. I
think that’s a problem.”
He added, “I don’t know
how we can overcome that.”
Mayor Sam Steidel said
that 10 percent of the city’s
housing stock is a “good
New limits?
number” of short-term rent-
Renting homes to vaca- als for the city.
Councilor George Vetter
tioners can be more lucrative
than renting them out long- said attempts to offset people
term, Councilor Mike Bene- using homes as short-term
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the wind.”
tains access to the home.
“I don’t think that we can
“With the marketing
that we’ve done for Cannon expect to turn this town into a
Beach, rents for a weekend residential community where
are greater than a person who we don’t have people com-
lives here can afford for a ing here for second homes,”
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you rent two weekends twice where we live.”
Housing impact
The City Council also dis-
cussed the lack of affordable
housing available in Cannon
Beach, and possibly placing
further limits on short-term
rentals.
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Homeowners who rent
out their home for periods
of less than 30 days must be
in the short-term rental pro-
gram, which consists of three
sub-programs.
Transient rentals, limited
to 92 permits, include about
58 transient rentals grandfa-
thered into the program, and
26 lottery transient rentals
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The lottery transient rent-
al sub-program is growing,
Barnes said, with 150 names
on the list.
The program also includes
about 110 vacation home rent-
als that have a 14-day limit.
Permits are not capped for
these rentals.
However, Barnes said peo-
ple not in the permit program
are renting out their homes
on websites and are likely not
paying room taxes. “I don’t
know if that’s a big number
but the point is I really don’t
know.”
Enforcing short-term rental
regulations on sites like Airb-
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It’s also challenging to
monitor noise, parking and
other issues that stem from
short-term renters in second
homes, several councilors
said.
The city’s short-term rent-
al code states that the purpose
of regulations are “to protect
the character of the city’s resi-
dential neighborhoods” and to
make sure short-term rentals
“will be compatible with sur-
rounding residential areas and
will not materially alter the
neighborhoods in which they
are located.”
Barnes recalled a Design
Review Board meeting last
year when a resident said she
was the only homeowner on
her block who lived there full-
time.
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