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6A • May 18, 2018 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com Campus site footprint shrinks to cut costs School district cuts building square footage By R.J. Marx Cannon Beach Gazette The Seaside School Dis- trict scaled back architectural plans for the new campus in the Southeast Hills, officials said at a meeting of the dis- trict’s construction oversight committee Tuesday, May 8. Architects have reduced the building footprint, square footage and added a third floor to the middle and high school building to reduce foundation costs. “Retaining walls are ex- pensive,” district superinten- dent Sheila Roley said. Renovation plans for ad- ditions to Seaside Heights Elementary School are unal- tered. Students from schools re- locating from within the tsu- nami inundation zone are ex- pected to start classes in new facilities by September 2020. “It’s been quite an inter- esting process to take advan- tages of the site in the best way possible and stay true to the district’s educational goals as well as the goals of the community,” Dan Hess of BRIC Architecture said at the meeting. “They really wanted something special, not just a concrete bunker.” When early bids came in architects decided to modify plans to add a third story for the middle and high school building to provide stability on the hillside site. The mod- ification eliminated about 15,000 square feet from the building. “It’s more expensive than a normal foundation,” Hess said. “By making it smaller and taller, that was a cost-sav- ing effort.” Midway through the de- sign process, the district was a “bit over budget,” accord- ing to a report from owner’s representative DAY CPM. Architects identified about $3 million in cost savings using value engineering and eliminated an additional 3,000 to 4,000 square feet from the middle and high school building, now project- ed at about 140,000 square feet, Hess said. “The foot- print hasn’t changed, but how things are arranged in there has improved a lot. A lot of it had to do with minimizing hallways and using a more ef- ficient layout.” While no classrooms have been eliminated from plans, there was “a little belt-tight- ening” in classroom size, Hess said. The number of student lockers was reduced by half, with the goal of saving square footage in hallways. Most high school kids don’t use lockers, district superintendent Sheila Roley said, as electronic devices replace heavy textbooks. “If you go in Seaside High School and see all those lockers in the hallway, well over half of them are empty.” Students who want lock- ers may sign up for them, she added. Water, building permits ahead The campus budget is ex- pected to reach about $112 million, about $12.3 million more than the original $99.7 million approved by voters. The difference is expected to be covered by bond interest and state grants. A water tank at the cam- pus site will be needed for fire safety, at an anticipated $6 million cost to the city, Seaside City Manager Mark Winstanley said at the May 8 meeting. “You have to have the capacity there whether they ever use it or not,” he said. “Unfortunately, we didn’t pass a bond issue.” After Seaside Planning Commission approval in April, site inspections from the Oregon Department of State Lands and the Army Corps of Engineers remain ahead, including an archaeo- logical review. The district’s goal is a June 1 first construction start date. Officials hope to have a building permit by Aug. 8. Summer academic and sports programs usually held at the Seaside Heights campus will be relocated to Broadway Middle School during con- struction. “Everything’s a work in progress,” Roley said. Visitor center changes Cannon Beach adopts new flood maps Center from Page 1A City Manager Bruce St. De- nis said. Years of heavily subsidizing other city funds like public works, which has projects that can’t be covered by water rate revenues, has caused the general fund bal- ance to decrease over time, St. Denis said. “The goal is not to take money away from the cham- ber. We have to make hard choices about how we are spending general fund mon- ey,” St. Denis said. “So in this budget we are proposing splitting out some of the fund- ing for the visitor center.” The suggested realloca- tion is also a part of a larger effort to consolidate the con- tracts the city holds with the chamber. Currently, the city holds two contracts — one to transfer funds to support the visitor center and another that allocates transient room tax revenue to be used for promotional purposes. Tran- sitioning into one, multi- year contract could be more efficient, he said. St. Denis also hopes the change could encourage the city to invest more of these dollars into “rainy day” funds. “We are so reliant on what comes in for tax revenue from a hotel standpoint, and if their revenues go down, our revenues go down,” St. Denis said. The chamber has long advocated for a multi-year contract, as it would allow the organization to do long- term planning and projects. Executive Director Jim Paino said he does not have an issue contributing to the Visitor In- formation Center, but is con- cerned with the increase com- ing all at once. He suggests a phase-in that would allow the chamber to slowly take on the responsibility of funding the Visitor Information Center over the course of three years. “In two-and-a-half years we started this promotions program from scratch, and now we are to the point where we see that we are making an impact,” Paino said. “We would have to re- evaluate our whole process if this came all at once.” The city will continue to work with chamber through- out the budget process to find a number that works for both entities, St. Denis said. By Brenna Visser Cannon Beach Gazette The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday, May 8, to adopt new flood plain maps in Cannon Beach provided by the Federal Emergency Man- agement Agency. The new hazard maps have been long-awaited by many downtown business owners. The maps are used by insur- ers to price flood insurance and by cities and counties to identify flood-prone areas for regulatory purposes. They can also affect new development by requiring certain building standards. Flood hazard zones will shrink by 27 percent, taking the majority of downtown out of the 100-year flood plain — an area with a 1 in 100 chance of flooding in any given year. The maps, which will offi- cially go into effect June 20, will take many businesses out of flood zones and likely re- duce insurance costs. The updates are the prod- uct of a countywide study that began in 2009 to incorporate the latest surveying technol- ogy. While new surveys have CLATSOP COUNTY LAND USE PLANNING Cannon Beach joined other coastal cities in approving FEMA revised flood maps. reflected these changes since 2016, efforts to adopt the new flood maps were stalled by concerns with the draft coastal analysis in the Columbia Riv- er estuary, as well as assess- ments of a levee in Warrenton. 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