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City mulls housing solutions DIRECTORY
Cannon Beach
could lead
housing push
By Lyra Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
Cannon Beach could devel-
op workforce housing on city-
owned land — starting with
placing park model homes at
the RV Park — and amend zon-
ing codes to address its long-
term housing need.
These recommendations
were part of the affordable
housing task force’s final report
that was presented to the City
Council during a work session
last week. The recommenda-
tions could be adopted at a
council hearing in December.
“I think this is an excellent
report, very comprehensive,”
Councilor Mike Benefield said,
adding he was “impressed by
the detail and amount of data.”
The appointed task force
included Duane Johnson of
Duane Johnson Real Estate;
Todd Johnston, Northwest Or-
egon Housing Authority exec-
utive director; Ken McQuhae,
retired engineer and resident;
Dave Norstedt, Martin Hospi-
tality vice president of opera-
tions; Brandon Ogilvie, a local
contractor; Sheri Russell, Co-
lumbia Bank branch manager;
City Manager Brant Kucera;
and council liaison Melissa
Cadwallader.
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The Cannon Beach affordable housing task force will rec-
ommend up to 10 manufactured “park model homes,” like
the ones shown above from Woodburn, to be placed in the
city’s RV Park.
Members focused on rental
housing on city-owned land for
year-round, full-time employ-
ees. The task group prioritized
“the missing middle,” said con-
sultant Terri Silvis.
The majority of the local
workforce has incomes too
high to qualify for traditional
public subsidies, the report stat-
ed. Households must make no
more than 60 percent of area
median income to qualify for
publicly subsidized housing,
About 45 percent of full-time
employees in Cannon Beach
earn more than 60 percent of
area median income, according
to 2014 data.
Clatsop County 2016 medi-
an incomes are $39,500 for in-
dividuals, $45,100 for two-per-
son households, $50,700 for
three-person households and
$56,300 for four-person house-
holds.
Councilor George Vetter
asked how the housing would
remain affordable.
“Within fair housing law,
you can create parameters of
which the housing would serve,
create regulatory agreements
and make sure the housing
serves the intended popula-
tion,” Silvis said.
RV Park, children’s center
Recommendations includ-
ed using up to 10 spots in the
RV Park for manufactured park
model homes that could be
hooked into existing water and
electrical systems. If success-
ful, the program could expand.
The homes could be fi-
nanced from the general fund
or borrowed funds and would
not lead to significant reve-
nue loss for the city, the report
found.
An outside vendor like
Northwest Oregon Housing
Authority could screen poten-
tial tenants. Other communi-
ties’ screening criteria gave
housing preferences to first
responders, public employees
and verified full-time local
business employees, according
to the report.
The park model homes
would be a test, Mayor Sam
Steidel said.
Vetter raised questions
about losing potential revenue
at the RV Park. The city would
collect rent from residences,
thus creating revenue, Bene-
field said.
Next steps for the RV Park
option would be addressing fi-
nancial, management and reg-
ulatory questions, City Planner
Mark Barnes said.
The task force also recom-
mended developing the former
children’s center in Tolovana
into a small complex of nine
two-bedroom units, which
could be used by couples and
small families.
Barnes said the children’s
center property has “an extra
layer of complexity” due to de-
sign questions and recent testi-
mony from the Cannon Beach
Garden Club opposing devel-
opment at the children’s center
or Tolovana Hall.
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priorities
By Lyra Fontaine
Cannon Beach Gazette
Residents store medicine,
provisions and other supplies in
three emergency cache sites in
Cannon Beach. Will those sites
survive the Big One?
Ensuring that the cache sites
are able to withstand an earth-
quake is important to the city’s
emergency preparedness com-
mittee.
“My priority is to make sure
all three sites are shored up to
withstand a seismic event,”
committee member Paula Vet-
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ing.
Many agreed that internal
building modifications on the
city’s three emergency contain-
er cache sites, for seismic pur-
poses, would be one way to use
the committee’s funds.
“The seismic upgrades at
the three cache sites are the
No. 1 priority, along with sup-
plies and outreach for the fiscal
year,” committee chair Karolyn
Adamson said after the meet-
ing.
The committee’s budget for
this fiscal year is $6,500. The
amount can be spent on pre-
paredness and education efforts
through June 30. Cost estimates
for the cache site modifications
have yet to be determined.
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