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VOL. 43, ISSUE 8 $1.00 CANNONBEACHGAZETTE.COM April 19, 2019 Big changes could be ahead for rental permits By CARA MICO For Cannon Beach Gazette The Cannon Beach City Council asked the Planning Commission to consider three potential ordinance changes to the short-term rental program, which they did in a series of public meetings which concluded March 28. The council is considering eliminating the fi ve-year unlimited permit, converting the once per 14 days rental permit to twice monthly, and removing owner fi nancial pen- alties for owners who transition the property to a professional management agency. On top of all those potential changes there’s Senate Bill 6 to consider, which is a bill in front of Oregon legislators propos- WHAT I HEAR FROM MY LEGISLATIVE WORKING GROUP IS THAT THEY DON’T SEE THAT GOING VERY FAR. FROM A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE, DO WHAT YOU DO UNTIL THE STATE TELLS YOU WHAT NOT TO DO IT.’ Planning Director Jeff Adams, speaking of Oregon SB 6, a bill that proposes the elimination of the short-term rental industry altogether. ing the elimination of the short-term rental industry altogether. Planning Director Jeff Adams doesn’t think that has traction. “What I hear from my legislative working group is that they don’t see that going very far,” said Adams. “From a local perspective, do what you do until the state tells you what not to do it. Cities can have more restrictive standards,” Adams said. He suggested that the Planning Commis- sion ignore what the state was doing and make recommendations for local legislation that met local needs. Public comment covered a diverse spec- trum of views. One resident said that he has lived in three different places in Cannon Beach, always near a short-term rental property, he has per- sonally never had any issues with them, and thought that further changes might diminish more more recent improvements and result in a signifi cant loss of city revenue. Another longtime resident said that vis- itors to short term rental properties were dangerous to kids on bikes and didn’t think vacationers would like it if Cannon Beach residents took fi ve of their closest friends See Rentals, Page A8 Emergency kits for kids By KATHERINE LACAZE For Cannon Beach Gazette Workshop attendees create mixed-media pieces during a March 23 workshop, titled “How Does Your Garden Grow: Beach Plastic Floral Assemblage,” a part of the Trash Talk Workshops series organized by the Cannon Beach Arts Association and Haystack Rock Awareness Program. TRASH TALK The Cannon Beach Academy received a special delivery last week that marks an important step in the school’s effort to be prepared for keeping students safe during an emergency or natural disaster. Jason Johnson, with Tonquin Trading Company, on Tuesday, April 9, dropped off several dozen emergency survival kits purchased with funds from a Can- non Beach community grant the academy recently received. “We have to be able to rely on our- selves, because we don’t know what’s going to be available,” Cannon Beach Academy Director Amy Fredrickson said. Each of the 55 lightweight Go Kits for Kids is designed to help a person survive for 72 hours, or three days, and includes a high-calorie food bar, light stick, hand warmer, emergency blanket, poncho, and packets of drinking water. The admin- istration will then have parents add pic- tures, medications, extra clothing and a comforting item to their child’s kit. Each one will also receive a laminated name tag that includes the student’s emergency contact and allergy information. Having acquired the Go Kits for Kids, the school can now incorporate them into tsunami drills, allowing the students to get used to wearing them while walking to the evacuation site. Another step is fi g- uring out storage, Fredrickson said, or how to keep the packs out of the way for day-to-day operations, yet accessible in the event of an emergency. From the inside, out By KATHERINE LACAZE For Cannon Beach Gazette Artist and naturopathic doctor Mary Bess Gloria shows the amount of plastic trash she picked up from a beach on a single trip during her environmental art workshop, part of a series for the Cannon Beach Arts Association and Haystack Rock Awareness Program. Growing up, local artist and naturo- pathic doctor Mary Bess Gloria remem- bers perceiving the action of littering as a problem, particularly because it was her father’s pet-peeve. As an adult, though, littering and the proliferation of plastic debris in the envi- ronment have assumed additional sig- nifi cance while also appealing to her artistic sensibilities, she said while lead- ing a workshop for the Cannon Beach Arts Association and Haystack Rock Photos by Katherine Lacaze/ Cannon Beach Gazette See Art, Page A8 Outfi tting the school with Go Kits for Kids is another step in building up the entire community and preparing for an emergency, which is Johnson’s specialty. With a background doing risk mitiga- tion on the oil fi elds of North Dakota, John- son’s mission upon arriving in the Pacifi c Northwest a few years ago was to help the local communities prepare for the most signifi cant natural disaster they face — a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami — “from the inside, out.” “I don’t think anyone’s prepared to see the devastation we would experience in the current scenario,” Johnson said, adding that when humans go days with- out water or weeks without food, “You automatically go into survival mode, you don’t have a choice.” See Kits, Page A8 Archaeologists search for clues to history at Angkor Wat By NANCY MCCARTHY For Cannon Beach Gazette Although Angkor Wat in modern Cambodia is 900 years old, archaeologists are only beginning to research the history of the people who lived near the temple. The massive temple, which covers an area half the size of Cannon Beach, was discussed by Alison Kyra Carter, Ph.D, assis- tant professor in the Univer- sity of Oregon’s archaeology department, in a lecture at the Cannon Beach History Cen- ter & Museum March 28. The lecture was one of a series of lectures presented this year at the history center. From the ninth to 15th centuries, the Angkor Empire included much of what today is Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and south- ern Vietnam; the capital city, Angkor, was in Cam- bodia. While the Cambodi- ans always knew about Ang- kor Wat, the temple, overrun by jungle, was brought to public attention in a journal written by a French explorer in 1860. Since the temple’s dis- covery beneath the tree trunks that grew over great parts of it, archaeologists have studied the structure See Angkor Wat, Page A8 Cannon Beach History Center
