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Marijuana debate still blazing
Pot from Page 1A
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Ayden Molyneux tries his hand at the bean bag toss
during the party at Cannon Beach Academy on Monday.
Cannon Beach Academy party
Party from Page 1A
The most recent accom-
plishment, however, was
having the academy’s first-
and second-graders teach the
kindergarten students how
to dance to “the Monster
Mash.”
“That is leadership at its
finest,” Moore said. “Watch-
ing these kids branch out and
build relationships has been
rewarding.”
For second-grader Satchel
Parker, he said there is a lot
to like about to school, but re-
cess is probably his favorite.
“But I think every kid
would say that,” Parker said.
For the night he was
dressed as a Special Forces
soldier. When asked, he said
he wasn’t really sure what
inspired him to choose the
costume, other than a vague
interest “in this stuff.”
But he had a clearer opin-
ion about the party.
“I like the candy, and the
food,” Parker said. “And the
people.”
‘Citizen scientists’ help
gather data at Cape Falcon
Birds from Page 1A
and Manzanita, was set aside
for conservation and scien-
tific research in 2012. It is
one of five marine reserves
in Oregon. They are, as the
Friends of Cape Falcon Ma-
rine Reserve have described
them, “underwater parks,”
or “living laboratories,” in
the words of Chrissy Smith,
coordinator for the Friends of
Cape Falcon Marine Reserve.
The Cape Falcon site is
Oregon’s northernmost ma-
rine reserve. Three of the ar-
ea’s five cormorant colonies
are easily visible from where
Sappington would sit above
Devil’s Cauldron, a cove sur-
rounded by steep cliffs where
ocean swells turn the water
below turquoise and milk-
white with froth.
For the past two sum-
mers, the Audubon Society
of Portland and Fish and
Wildlife Service, in collabo-
ration with Friends of Cape
Falcon Marine Reserve and
the Haystack Rock Aware-
ness Program, have trained
volunteers to monitor seabird
nesting success. Volunteers
also watch colonies at sites
in the Cape Perpetua Marine
Reserve farther south.
Volunteer scientists are
also called “citizen scien-
tists” and they could be any-
one — that’s the point.
“Citizen science, you
can do a lot with it,” said
Liebezeit. But, he added,
City Planner Mark Barnes
said he was not aware the
property at 140 S. Hemlock
St. was mixed-use when prop-
erty owners Bruce and Max
Ritchie applied for a land use
compatibility statement last
year.
The city does not have a
registry of mixed-use build-
ings or any formal way of
keeping track of them, Barnes
said. The property is listed
under commercial zoning,
where retail is allowed.
In Cannon Beach, there
is no code provision that ad-
dresses how land use com-
patibility statements are eval-
uated, so it is not an inherent
code violation if there is false
information on the form. Be-
cause these forms are submit-
ted so early on the process, the
information serves as a gener-
al road map subject to chang-
es, Barnes said.
The accountability comes
when retailers apply for a
business license. At that
point, the city will inspect the
business to make sure it is in
accordance with the city’s de-
sign standards, zoning, build-
ing and other regulations.
“We still have an oppor-
tunity to enforce all provi-
sions of the code when they
come for a business license,”
Barnes said.
Comprehensive plan
AMELIA O’CONNOR
Citizen scientists can be im-
portant to research projects.
simplicity is key.
The cormorants are also
monitored as an indicator
species, said Shawn Steph-
nesen, wildlife biologist with
Fish and Wildlife, “helping
us understand ocean condi-
tions and food availability
for many different seabirds.”
But, given the citizen sci-
ence component, cormorants
were chosen because they
are commonly found off the
Oregon Coast, they are easy
to spot, difficult to confuse
with other sea birds and they
build distinct, separate nests
that volunteers can peer into
with their spotting scopes
and binoculars.
Monitoring the cormo-
rants is an activity Sapping-
ton and other volunteers say
they find to be very peaceful.
The normal pace of his life
slows, Sappington said. At
the same time, though, the
birds he has been watching
seem to grow up overnight.
“All of the sudden what
once was an egg is now a
bird and it’s getting ready to
leave the nest.”
Frei argues approving Five
Zero Trees at the Hemlock lo-
cation is a violation of aspects
of the comprehensive plan,
the city’s constitution for de-
velopment.
The comprehensive plan
promotes “small-scale, fam-
ily-owned” businesses, and
Frei said the fact Five Zero
Trees operates stores across
Oregon means it doesn’t meet
the definition. Introducing a
marijuana store so close to a
residential area would also
be out of step with the plan’s
goal to promote a “unique
character of downtown,” he
said.
The last major inconsisten-
cy is the plan’s goal to “en-
courage the provision of per-
manent housing in downtown
by providing zoning incen-
tives for mixed-use structures
which incorporate housing,”
he said.
“Because of code require-
ments regarding mixed use,
this business is taking away
a mixed-use building (with
three apartments) to make it
into a commercial building,
eliminating the apartments
in affordable-housing-chal-
lenged Cannon Beach,” Frei
said.
City councilors tentative-
ly are scheduled to review
the comprehensive plan and
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Chris Hess at the Five Zero Trees store in Cannon Beach on Friday. Owners of the store are
planning a soft opening in a few weeks as two other recreational marijuana retailers look
at opening stores in Cannon Beach.
Cannabis retailers eye Cannon Beach
New stores dealing
with ownership, design
challenges
By Brenna Visser
Cannon Beach Gazette
As Five Zero Trees eyes a soft opening
in a few weeks, two other marijuana retail-
ers have also been working to establish a
presence in the city.
Oregrown Inc. co-founder Aviv Hadar
said the Bend-based retailer still has inten-
tions to open a store at the location of Pur-
ple Moon Boutique on Hemlock Street. He
and the other founders of the company have
“struck a deal” with building owner Gene
Cope to purchase the property.
The team had its designs approved by
the Design Review Board this summer and
is in the process of obtaining a license from
the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
The store opening will depend on when Ab-
bas Atwi, the owner of Purple Moon Bou-
tique, is ready to go, Hadar said.
“We’re going to let this play its natural
course,” Hadar said. “When we do some-
thing it’s very methodical. Every little tiny
nook and cranny needs to be perfect and
thought out. If it takes a year to get the place
open, so be it.”
Atwi declined to comment.
Daryl Bell’s plans to open a marijuana
store at 3115 S. Hemlock St. in Tolovana,
however, are stalled. The Design Review
Board rejected his application Thursday be-
ordinance in early December
to take a deeper look at Frei’s
arguments.
“I question whether this
violates the comprehensive
plan or not,” City Councilor
Nancy McCarthy said. “I feel
like we’ve been shutting (the
Ecola Square Homeowners
Association) down.”
Case Van Dorne, the
City Manager Community Fo-
rum, 7 p.m., Surfsand Resort, 148
W Gower Ave, Cannon Beach, OR
97110
Tuesday, Nov. 7
Cannon Beach City Council, 8:30
a.m., executive session, City Hall,
163 E. Gower St.
of Directors, 5:30 p.m., Cannon
Beach Academy, 3781 S. Hemlock.
Directors, 6 p.m., 1801 S. Franklin,
Seaside.
Tuesday, Nov. 14
Tuesday, Dec. 5
Cannon Beach City Council, 5:30
p.m., meeting and work session,
188 Sunset, Cannon Beach.
Cannon Beach City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Thursday, Nov. 16
Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protec-
tion District, 6 p.m., 188 Sunset,
Cannon Beach.
Wednesday, Nov. 8
Cannon Beach Parks and Com-
munity Services Committee, 9
a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach City Council, 8:30
a.m., executive session, City Hall,
163 E. Gower St.
Cannon Beach Design Review
Board Meeting, 6 p.m., City Hall,
163 E. Gower St.
Thursday, Nov. 9
Tuesday, Nov. 21
Cannon Beach Academy Board
Seaside School District Board of
Monday, Dec. 11
Tuesday, Dec. 12
Cannon Beach City Council, 5:30 p.m.,
work session, City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Seaside School District Board of
Directors, 6 p.m., 1801 S. Franklin,
Seaside.
cause it lacked detail and failed to address
parking issues board members cited two
months ago at his last hearing.
The parking spaces are drawn onto
the city’s right of way, City Planner Mark
Barnes said, and would need to be rede-
signed in order to be in compliance.
“The parking situation at this location is
something that would need to be addressed
for anyone with commercial use,” Barnes
said.
Nancy Benson, operations manager of
PPC Holdings, represents Bell and said
that redesigning the parking layout was too
costly to do in the time allotted. But they in-
tend to reapply to the Design Review Board
in the future.
“We’re still hoping to open at that loca-
tion,” Benson said.
co-owner of Five Zero Trees,
hopes to alleviate the con-
cerns residents have about his
business by the way he oper-
ates, he said.
“We have families of our
own. I’ve been visiting Can-
non Beach for 42 years. We
want to work with the com-
munity and prove we won’t be
a negative influence on Can-
non Beach,” he said.
Van Dorne has another
Five Zero Trees in Astoria,
where he said they are active
in beach cleanups, food drives
and other community service.
He hopes to do the same in
Cannon Beach.
“We’re not a faceless busi-
ness. We’re people who care,”
he said.
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