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Higgins bids Cottage embodies historic preservation
farewell to city
House from Page 1A
By R.J. Marx
Cannon Beach Gazette
Wendy Higgins enjoyed
her last Cannon Beach
Chamber of Commerce’s
Wednesday morning meet-
ing, as she prepared to say
farewell to the city where
she has lived and worked.
Higgins was Chamber of
Commerce president before
the business community
encouraged her to run for
ofice. Higgins was elect-
ed to City Council in 2008;
her term expires at the end
of this year. As a 34-year
area resident and The Ocean
Lodge’s general manager for
14 years, she has balanced a
full-time job with councilor
duties. While she is moving
next week, she will serve out
her City Council term until
the end of the year.
“We have an amazing
group down here,” Higgins
said. “As a community, we
have come so far, with our
city government and our
chamber. I’m ecstatic about
where you guys are.”
When Higgins irst be-
came involved with the
chamber, “there was no
R.J. MARX/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
Wendy
Higgins
and
George Vetter at the Can-
non Beach Chamber of
Commerce cofee meet-
ing, the last before Hig-
gins heads to a new job in
Washington state.
money here,” she said.
“The city wasn’t supportive.
Now we’re in a really good
place.”
Higgins will be going to
Escape Lodging’s Lodge at
Columbia Point, in Rich-
ield, Washington, an 82-
room resort hotel in the
state’s wine country.
“Cannon Beach has such
an amazing reputation,”
Higgins said. “Where we
were and where we’re going
is just amazing, I’m really
proud to have been a part of
that. I’ll always be a part of
this community.”
make room for developments like the
Lloyd Center, the house has a unique
collection of details, including marble
loors, cast iron pieces, quirky stencils of
seahorses and a window that curves out-
side to resemble a captain’s window on
a ship.
Bathroom loor tiles include address
numbers from former Portland houses,
some arranged in the “pi” numerical se-
quence, and a tower with stained-glass
windows can be reached from attic-like
stairs that fold down.
Since Bosco’s death in 1987, Schein
and her husband, Ed, have taken care
of the home. But the upkeep and dis-
tance became too dificult for the Se-
attle-based couple, and they put the
updated home on the market with local
real estate agent Robin Risley, of Cas-
cade Sotheby’s.
The home will likely be featured in
the upcoming Cannon Beach Cottage
and Garden Tour.
Bosco and the Architectural Heri-
tage Center’s other founder, Ben Milli-
gan, salvaged architectural pieces from
demolished historic buildings in the
Northwest. They collected a signiicant
amount of architectural artifacts that are
still on display and were advocates for
historic preservation.
The center in Portland offers exhib-
its, education and walking tours of his-
toric areas.
Besides conserving architectural
history, Bosco taught arts and ceramics
classes in Portland. The home show-
cases his sculpture work, including one
blown-glass creation resembling a sea
anemone.
“Each person has different feel-
ing about what’s really special here,”
Schein said about the sculpture collec-
tion.
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A tower with stained glass windows is accessible from fold-down stairs on the
second loor.
Who would be the ideal buyer for the
home?
“Somebody who appreciates the un-
usual, unique and artistic qualities - and
the historic qualities,” Schein said. “All
these pieces were from historic houses,
even the shingles. I don’t want it torn
down.”
Community grants
beneit 18 Clatsop
Survey: 59 percent of residents want fewer STRs
County groups
Rentals from Page 1A
Organizations
have social
impact
By Lyra Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
The North Coast Food
Web’s fruit box program
allows Astoria High School
students to have access to
fresh fruit when they visit
the vice principal’s ofice.
The city of Cannon Beach
will help support this initia-
tive and many more through
its community grant pro-
gram, now in its 28th year.
The city will disburse
$75,000 to 18 organiza-
tions in the county that
provide arts, educational,
recreational, environmental,
community or social ser-
vices. The parks and com-
munity services committee
interviewed each group
and recommended grant
amounts.
“We meet the people
and see their passion and
dedication,” parks commit-
tee chair Barb Knop said
in July to the City Council.
“It’s a wonderful program.
It speaks very highly of
Cannon Beach.”
New organizations re-
ceiving grants are North
Coast Food Web, South
County Community Food
Bank and Clatsop Commu-
nity College Foundation,
which will use funds to
improve English literacy
through its volunteer tutor-
ing program.
Cannon Beach Arts As-
sociation and Tolovana Arts
Colony will receive grants
of more than $10,000 each
to support their communi-
ty programs. The Cannon
Beach Chorus, Cannon
Beach History Center and
Coaster Theatre also re-
ceived funding.
Organizations outside
of Cannon Beach receiving
grants include Restoration
House, the Wildlife Center,
Clatsop Community Action,
The Harbor, Healing Circle
and Helping Hands.
The council plans to
adopt the recommendations
on August 2. Grants will be
disbursed shortly after. Each
grant recipient undergoes
an evaluation to measure
whether the organization
achieved its goals. Grant
recipients will present at a
September community pot-
luck.
“A few of these organiza-
tions, although they are not
in the city, obviously beneit
our residents as people who
live in Clatsop County,”
City Manager Brant Kucera
said. “They provide services
you will ind nowhere else
in the county.”
“Cannon Beach has al-
ready the most restrictive
short-term rental rules on the
coast,” resident Alaina Gigui-
ere said. “This plan is work-
ing, our neighborhoods are
protected, our property man-
agers here are wonderful and
respectful.”
“If anything, make it more
lenient so the city can be en-
joyed more and more,” said
resident Steve Crane.
Steve Fulkerson, homeown-
er in the lottery program, said
short-term rentals allow large
groups affordable lodging.
Due to city notices con-
taining two different dates,
the hearing continued July 28,
after the Gazette went to print.
If the Planning Commission
made a recommendation, a
City Council public hearing
would be held in September.
The council has the inal ac-
tion.
Transient rentals are part
of the city’s short-term rental
program, which also includes
about 110 vacation home rent-
als with a 14-day limit.
Transient rentals, limited
to 92 permits, include about
58 transient rentals grandfa-
thered into the program, and
22 current lottery transient
rentals that expire after ive
years. The lottery sub-pro-
gram is growing, Barnes said,
with 142 names on the list.
In 2014-15, short-term
rentals generated $288,700 in
transient room taxes, a number
that has since increased, City
Planner Mark Barnes said.
Some opponents said lim-
iting short-term rental regula-
tions could negatively affect
businesses and home values,
and short-term rentals would
continue regardless.
“Cannon Beach is a resort
town and there isn’t going
to be any regulations we can
have that will change that,”
said Pat Sparks, a short-term
rental owner. “I’ve never had
a neighbor that’s complained
about anyone.”
Resident
Jan
Sie-
bert-Wahrmund was the only
speaker not opposing the
changes. She said she sup-
ports the council “relooking
at this issue for the livability
of our community.”
Some objected to how the
proposed amendments were
brought to the Planning Com-
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perception that there’s a rela-
tionship there,” Barnes said.
“Even if that’s not correct, I
think it bears some looking at.”
Petrina said he would never
rent his home long-term be-
cause he uses his house during
the year.
“I think the council is over-
reacting thinking that short-
term rentals are what’s the
cause of not having long-term
rentals,” Giguiere said. “One
does not have anything to do
with the other.”
At an April work session,
councilors discussed possible
further limits on short-term
rentals. In a May planning
session, councilors and staff
planned to examine short-term
rental regulations.
For 59 percent of citizen
survey respondents, it is im-
portant that the city reduce the
number of short-term rentals in
residential neighborhoods.
“The city inds that the rent-
al of dwelling units for periods
of 30 days or less has the po-
tential to be incompatible with
surrounding residential uses,”
the staff report states.
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mission without a decision or
vote. The council directed the
staff to bring the amendments
to the commission, Barnes
said, and an agreement is
enough to start a process.
“I think it’s dificult for staff
to interpret what City Council
sometimes is wanting to have
done,” resident Herb Florer
said. “I don’t know if there
was ever a direction. I don’t
think there should have been a
direction since there is nothing
in the record that shows any
kind of decision.”
“The direction to me was
unmistakable, but there was no
motion and vote,” Barnes said
Tuesday.
Short-term rental problems
discussed by councilors and
staff during public meetings
included enforcement issues
and regulations not relecting
the changing, increasingly dig-
ital industry.
The council has also dis-
cussed short-term rentals in the
context of affording housing.
“I think the relationship
between the two is tenuous
at best, but there’s at least the
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