August 26, 2016 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 7A
Task force weighs afordable housing
Housing from Page 1A
a “poor option” and “unrealistic,” cit-
ing downtown businesses that need
parking. The concept of housing at
the children’s center may be recon-
sidered to include the entire property,
including the Tolovana Arts Colony
building across the street.
In June, former Mayor Mike Mor-
gan and former City Planner Rainmar
Bartl suggested tiny, factory-built park
model homes as an alternative concept
for affordable housing at the RV Park.
The task force agreed to consid-
er replacing some of the affordable
housing units in the concept design
with park model “tiny homes” that
could work for individuals or couples.
“You’re getting at the variety of
needs that you’ve identiied, some
more expensive and some more quick
and affordable,” Silvis said of the
park model cottages.
City Planner Mark Barnes said the
RV Park is already zoned and permit-
ted for park model homes, though the
city would need to allow long-term
tenants.
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he Cannon Beach afordable housing task force heard public comment
last week.
“Of the options we’ve talked
about, that is by far the fastest,” he
said.
The cost of park models, which
would take up 12 RV spaces, would
be lower than new construction.
Response
Resident Ed Johnson said that
people in the community who might
be affected by affordable housing at
the RV Park or at the children’s cen-
ter should be contacted before the
task force makes a inal recommen-
dation.
“There’s some bigger issues that
I wish were being addressed, partic-
ularly those people most closely as-
sociated with the intended plans that
you have on the table,” Johnson said.
Several residents said it was busi-
ness owners’ issue and some local
businesses provide housing for em-
ployees.
Resident Phil Massebeau said the
focus should be on inding a private
party to build housing.
“We could make it easier for an
apartment complex to come in but why
do we have to put one in the RV Park,
the most populated part of Cannon
Beach with full-time residents?” he said.
Resident Jan Siebert-Wahrmund
said keeping the community sustain-
able is dificult.
“I know we don’t have much water
in our watershed to take on much more
growth,” she said.
The affordable homes would be
available for those who make about
70 to 100 percent of the area median
income.
“I think it’s so critical that this gets
done,” City Manager Brant Kucera
said. “We’re the only ones trying to do
this and I’d hate to see this go down in
lames because it feels like the square
foot cost is too much.”
The task force could provide a re-
port with recommendations to the City
Council by November.
School bond
Bond from Page 1A
to be evacuated safely in the
event of a Cascadia earth-
quake and tsunami.
In a letter to Weyerhaeus-
er President and Chief Exec-
utive Oficer Doyle Simons,
Dougherty conveyed grati-
tude for the company’s “com-
munity spirit and corporate
philanthropy.” The parcel is
the only land meeting the dis-
trict’s requirements that will
not liquefy during an earth-
quake and is 80 to 100 feet
above sea level.
The gift “will make an
enormous difference for stu-
dents in years to come,” he
wrote. “We are overwhelmed
with the magnitude of the gift
coming at such a crucial time
in the community.
The land donation is not
contingent on passage of the
bond.
The meeting will be held at
6 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Seaside
School District ofice at 1801
S. Franklin St.
Council explores uses of former preschool building
Hall from Page 1A
building as a community hall,
suggesting that the children’s
center manage the building as
a nonproit.
“We were hoping that we
could become its manage-
ment and rent it to other com-
munity members that would
use the facility,” she said.
She said residents, from
families to home-schooled
students, have approached
her about using the space.
Meanwhile, the city’s af-
fordable housing task force
has looked at the former chil-
dren’s center property as one
potential city-owned location
for affordable housing, which
would be available to those
who make 70 to 100 percent
of area median income.
Carleton Hart Architec-
ture created a concept of
what nine affordable housing
units could look like on the
old children’s center site.
Councilors discussed the
housing need, the costs of
building affordable housing
on the site, and whether to
prioritize housing for irst re-
sponders.
Mayor Sam Steidel said he
would like to see an afford-
able housing plan that takes
into account the entire prop-
erty, both the children’s center
building and Tolovana Hall
across the parking lot.
“When I start thinking
housing, I think of the entire
property,” he said, adding that
Knop’s offer is “a good inter-
im use of the building until we
have a good plan.”
Kucera said the city should
request a business plan for a
nonproit that wants to use the
space.
Councilor Melissa Cad-
wallader said the building
is “sad and overgrown,” but
the nonproit that could take
it over should be inancially
solvent.
Professional North Coast Women Artists
The Palette Puddlers
of Cannon Beach
are moving their Labor Day
Art Show and Sale to the
Astoria Art Loft
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he Cannon Beach Preschool and Children’s Center.
“Whichever direction we
go, we have an empty build-
ing,” Steidel said. “So do we
just mothball it and let it get
like the gymnasium, or do we
try to propose something that
can be used as an interim?”
Former elementary
school site
According to the recent-
ly adopted strategic plan, the
city will make a decision on
whether to purchase the for-
mer Cannon Beach Elemen-
tary school site by the end
of the year. The site is now
owned by the Seaside School
District.
The city budget includes
a $665,000 placeholder for
purchase, demolition, reme-
diation and restoration of the
school site.
The city has hired a struc-
tural engineer, who is working
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Sign at the former Cannon
Beach Children’s Center.
on a structural analysis of the
building, which will be done
by the end of August. The city
will also retain a building con-
tractor to help evaluate main-
tenance and cost of repair,
Kucera said. The electrical
system may need to be up-
graded and the roof is leaking
in the gymnasium.
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