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Arch Cape Design Review Committee
County steadfast
in shutdown goal
Some hope
design review
panel will get
second chance
By Kyle Spurr and Lyra
Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
Clatsop County still wants
to dissolve the Arch Cape De-
sign Review Committee.
The Board of Commis-
sioners discontinued the cit-
izen advisory committee in
February, calling the group
an unnecessary, time-consum-
ing land use authority with an
expensive application process
and potential legal liability.
Former interim County
Manager Rich Mays accused
the committee of harassing a
county employee about her
disability and refusing to hold
meetings in a federal Ameri-
cans with Disabilities Act-ap-
proved facility.
However, Arch Cape resi-
dent Jim Jensvold challenged
the county’s decision with the
state Land Use Board of Ap-
peals, which has sent the issue
back to the county for review.
The county plans to dis-
continue the committee again,
but this time through a land
use process that would in-
clude public hearings before
the committee, the Planning
Commission and Board of
Commissioners.
“We agreed we will go
through the land use process
instead of the appeal,” Com-
munity Development Director
Heather Hansen said.
Supporters of the Arch
Cape Design Review Commit-
tee see the opportunity for pub-
lic comment at the upcoming
hearings as a second chance.
The committee is the last active
citizens advisory committee in
the county and is 39 years old.
For now, the committee is
alive and will discuss its fu-
ture at a meeting July 12. The
committee’s recommendation
will be heard by the Planning
Commission later in July. The
land use process to dissolve the
committee is expected to reach
the Board of Commissioners in
August.
“Now there is more time
for them to try to convince the
board to keep them around,”
Hansen said.
The committee screens all
major construction design ap-
plications for the unincorpo-
rated community of Arch Cape
submitted to the county plan-
ning ofice.
County
commissioners
have heard complaints about
the committee from people
who wanted to build or sell
homes in Arch Cape.
Former committee mem-
bers and others in the commu-
nity have argued, however, that
the committee is valuable for
maintaining the community’s
livability.
Tourism fund winners in Cannon Beach
By Lyra Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
Cannon Beach Tourism
and Arts Fund will disburse
about $266,000 this year to
area nonproits.
The commission suggest-
ed $5,000 to North Coast
Land Conservancy, fulilling
their request for a new event,
CoastWalk Oregon, a three-
day, 30-mile hiking event on
the Oregon Coast Trail start-
ing at Columbia River and
heading over Tillamook Head
to Cannon Beach.
The Chamber of Com-
merce requested $110,000;
the commission recommend-
ed $35,000.
“I think the general feel-
ing was, with the city increas-
ing its annual contribution
through the additional 1 per-
cent that was passed this year,
that a lot of the items were a
part of doing business as the
destination marketing orga-
nization for the city,” City
Manager Brant Kucera said.
“There was a feeling that
the city had already set aside
money to do those activities.”
The Chamber of Com-
merce requested $50,000
for an inaugural culinary,
beverage and music festival
and night market; $25,000
for marketing on the North
Coast; $20,000 to expand
the website and social media;
and $15,000 for marketing
videos.
The commission recom-
mended $35,000 in total fund
awards: $6,700 for the festi-
val and night market, $11,000
for North Coast marketing,
$8,700 for social integration
and $8,700 for videos.
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he Cottage and Garden tour is among the recipients of
funds from tourism and arts grants.
“Several people felt that
some of the events would fall
under the normal course of
business for the chamber and
not require Tourism and Arts
Commission funding,” Com-
mission Chair Tom Drum-
heller.
“I am pleased to hear how
the commission responded to
the chamber coming in and
asking for $110,000 when
they’ve been granted a signif-
icant increase in their budget
this year,” Councilor Melissa
Cadwallader said.
Cannon Beach Arts Asso-
ciation requested $24,000 to
create three juried shows and
a new series of art weekends;
the commission recommend-
ed about $20,000 in awards.
The goal is to expand the or-
ganization’s artist community
to include visiting artists, non-
resident members and “en-
gaged cultural tourists,” the
proposal stated. The events
are planned for November
2016 to June 2017.
The commission recom-
mended about $45,000 for the
Cannon Beach Gallery Group
festivals Spring Unveiling
Arts Festival and Plein Air &
More Festival.
The gallery group request-
ed $53,000. “We have estab-
lished both festivals as viable
events with great potential
for continued expansion,” the
proposal read.
The commission recom-
mended about $21,000 of the
$27,000 request to the Can-
non Beach History Center
and Museum for the 14th an-
nual Cottage & Garden Tour.
The event, scheduled for
September 2017, has grown
signiicantly and includes a
luncheon, lecture, concerts
and more, according to the
proposal.
The commission recom-
mended about $40,000 to
Clatsop Animal Assistance,
which requested $46,000, for
the eighth annual Savor Can-
non Beach, a four-day wine,
culinary and arts festival. The
March event “introduces Can-
non Beach to a new, younger
and afluent demographic,”
the proposal stated. In past
years, Savor helped raise
money for the Cannon Beach
Children’s Center, which
closed in April.
The commission suggested
$33,000 to the Coaster The-
atre for its special events, up-
coming theatrical productions
and 45th anniversary celebra-
tion. The theater, which will
have upgraded interiors, re-
quested about $55,000.
The commission recom-
mended about $43,000 to
Friends of Haystack Rock for
the Cannon Beach Yoga Fes-
tival, a four-day event with
yoga, dance, art, music and
wellness planned for Febru-
ary. The request was $60,000.
It is dificult to book in-de-
mand teachers in advance
when funding is received an-
nually, festival director Chris-
ten Allsop said during the
May interview.
The commission recom-
mended about $23,000 of the
$25,000 request for Tolovana
Arts Colony’s Get Lit at the
Beach, a three-day spring
event featuring best-selling
authors from a range of liter-
ary genres. About $300 was
recommended to Tolovana
Arts Colony for an inaugu-
ral Cannon Beach Comedy
Festival. The request for the
event, which was proposed
to include stand-up comedi-
ans, improvisational comedy
or sketch comedy throughout
the city, was $6,500.
Drumheller said the come-
dy festival could be tried lo-
cally before being opened for
tourists. “We liked that it was
a new idea, but it seemed like
the irst time would be mainly
for locals,” he said.
City will ile measure ater July council meeting, vote to be held Nov. 8
Petition from Page 1A
The committee mem-
bers have differing views on
cannabis outside of Cannon
Beach, but they agree that a
marijuana shop does not be-
long in town, said chairman
Jeremy Randolph, a former
county prosecutor.
“No matter where we are
on the spectrum, we are all
opposed to (a marijuana shop)
in Cannon Beach,” Randolph
said.
People were “more than
willing” to sign the petition,
Randolph said. It took about
two weeks to gather signa-
tures.
The council can either re-
ject the initiative or ignore it
on July 5, assistant city man-
ager and city recorder Colleen
Riggs said. The petition is pre-
sented mainly to inform coun-
cil members that the commit-
tee has enough signatures.
After the July council
meeting, the city will ile the
measure with the county elec-
tions oficer and a vote will be
held Nov. 8.
Time, place, and
manner restrictions
Pending the vote’s out-
come, staff and city council-
ors are working to get time,
place and manner restrictions
on medical and recreational
marijuana businesses in place.
“Depending on how the
vote goes, we could either im-
plement this or erase it from
your ordinance,” City Planner
Mark Barnes said to the City
Council at a June work ses-
sion. Cannon Beach munici-
pal code prohibits licenses for
businesses that are unlawful,
illegal or prohibited by state or
federal law. Since marijuana is
not legal in federal law, the city
cannot issue business licenses
to marijuana shops. The draft
ordinance has separate sections
for medical and recreational
marijuana, as state law current-
ly does, although the two sec-
tions are nearly identical.
The draft requires a crimi-
nal background check by po-
lice for all applicants and oth-
ers with a inancial interest in
the marijuana facility, and that
the building comply with ap-
plicable laws and regulations
for buildings and zoning.
The draft also requires the
business to conine objection-
able odors with an air iltra-
tion and ventilation system,
and prohibits the use of mari-
juana and tobacco products on
the marijuana facility site.
A medical marijuana fa-
cility cannot operate within a
‘No matter
where we are on
the spectrum,
we are all
opposed to
(a marijuana
shop) in Cannon
Beach.’
Jeremy Randolph
former prosecutor
residence or mixed-use prop-
erty, residential areas of var-
ious densities, estuary, open
space and RV park.
By state law, the facility
cannot be within 1,000 feet of
a public or private school.
Downtown concerns
Although the draft re-
stricted marijuana facilities
in downtown and midtown
limited commercial zones,
leaving only the Tolovana
Park limited commercial
zone available, councilors
had differing ideas about
what locations to restrict.
Marijuana shops should
be restricted from downtown
to maintain the character and
to not worsen trafic prob-
lems, Councilor Mike Bene-
ield said.
“The nature of that (mar-
ijuana) business is not peo-
ple stopping and shopping,”
Beneield said. “We already
have a parking issue in
downtown.”
Councilor Melissa Cad-
wallader agreed that marijua-
na shops should be excluded
from downtown, “the heart
of the commercial area.”
Mayor Sam Steidel said
he would restrict marijuana
businesses from being down-
town, and could see midtown
and potentially Tolovana as
possible locations.
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