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10A • April 17, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com Planning to decide on Smith permit Smith from Page 1A For several years, Smith has planned to use her Nea- coxie Creek Barn as an events center. She was is- sued a conditional use per- mit to do so in 2012, and it was subject to 13 conditions for approval, such as noti- fying the city prior to activ- ities, holding no more than six events and no more than one event per weekend in a month, making plans to sup- ply appropriate parking and REWDLQLQJDFHUWL¿FDWHRIRF- cupancy. Vesting a permit Gearhart’s Zoning Ordi- nance says authorization of a conditional use is void after one year “unless substantial construction pursuant thereto has taken place” and that the city may extend authorization for an additional six months upon request. Smith was granted a six- month extension in October 2013. The city believed the permit expired April 26, but the board rejected that con- tention. On April 15, 2014, Smith submitted a letter to the city in which she claimed sub- stantial construction on the barn would be done by April 26, 2014, but she also submit- ted a request for an extension “in the event additional time was needed to complete the construction,” the board’s written opinion states. If a permit application is incomplete, Oregon law requires a city to notify the applicant what information is missing within 30 days of receiving the application. The applicant must then submit the missing information or notify the city no more infor- mation will be submitted. Less than two weeks after she submitted her letter, Gear- hart City Administrator Chad Sweet determined she had not completed substantial con- struction and denied her ap- plication, saying the city only could grant one six-month extension. SUBMITTED BY SHANNON SMITH Shannon Smith’s livery as it stood in the 1930s. Smith has been trying for several years to renovate the facility and use it for an events center. Smith appealed Sweet’s decision on April 25, 2014, DQG KH UHVSRQGHG ¿YH GD\V later on April 30, restating the city did not agree she had substantially completed her project and denied her appeal. “If the city was waiting for ‘missing information’ to be supplied it would not, and could not, have made those decisions because it did not have a complete application,” the board opinion states, add- ing the city also did not give Smith “a clear signal that her application for an extension” was incomplete. Most importantly, the board opinion states that Smith indicated she did not plan to submit additional doc- umentation except for a bid estimate and stated “any deni- al is required to be provided to PH LQ ZULWLQJ FLWLQJ VSHFL¿F FULWHULDDQGFLWLQJVSHFL¿FDOO\ how the documentation sub- mitted fails to meet the crite- rion cited.” That statement shows Smith believed her applica- tion complete, and it was the city’s responsibility to tell her what information was miss- ing, the board concluded. Back to Planning Ultimately, the Land Use Board of Appeals sided with Smith that a remand is nec- essary in order for the city to issue a decision on her local appeal. If substantial con- struction pursuant to her 2012 conditional use permit has taken place, then no extension of the permit is required, the board decided. If the city determines, however, that substantial construction has not taken place, “the city will need to determine whether to grant (Smith’s) request for an exten- sion” according to the Zoning Ordinance, the board’s opin- ion states. The city is entitled to a ju- dicial review of the order, but Sweet does not think it will be necessary. He plans to speak with the city’s attorney to lay out the next steps for Smith and the city. Smith hopes the Planning Commission will determine at its May or June meeting whether she’s reached sub- stantial completion on her conditional use permit. She plans to be present at that meeting with her architect David Vonada and structural engineer Tim Wolden. “I’d like to just get it be- hind us, for sure,” Smith said. “But I’d like to have all the pieces in order.” For instance, she wants to go into the meeting with a solution to sanitation issues. “There should kind of be a streamlined approval, we hope and are excited about,” she said. Smith has not obtained a building permit or occupan- W ith this sw eet Spring Special, now m ight be the tim e to m ove to Suzanne Elise A ssisted Living cy permit, but she believes she’s taken many other steps WRIXO¿OOWKHFRQGLWLRQVRI her conditional use permit. The Planning Commission has the authority to determine if Smith’s substantially com- pleted the conditions of her permit, in which case her per- mit would be vested. If they determine she has not, she will have to apply for another extension. In other news from the City Council meeting: • The council approved in a 4-1 vote to increase Sweet’s VDODU\E\SHUFHQWIRU¿VFDO year 2015-16; the increase will kick in July 1. Sweet’s current salary is $77,168 and will be $81,026 for the QH[W ¿VFDO \HDU &RXQFLORU Dan Jesse cast the dissenting vote. While Sweet’s review – which was conducted in executive session March 25 – went well, Jesse said, he believes the city needs to be ¿VFDOO\ UHVSRQVLEOH ZLWK WD[- payer money, and a 5 percent increase is hard to justify to the community when em- ployees in many other sectors aren’t experiencing similar pay increases. • The council voted unan- imously to hold the Gearhart Earth Day Free Communi- ty Cleanup event April 25. Recology will deliver four 20-yard drop boxes for trash and one 3-yard drop box for electronics to City Hall. The boxes will be available in front of City Hall for residents to dump trash from 8 to 11 a.m. at no cost. The estimated cost to the city for the dump day is $820 after Recology’s donated discount of about 50 percent. • On the suggestion of Councilor Kerry Smith, the council agreed to send a let- ter, as a body, to the Oregon Department of Transporta- tion advocating to dissolve the four-lane portion of U.S. Highway 101 in the Gearhart and instead add a left turn lane to get to the east side of the city. The four-lane system has presented a safety issue, Smith said. News in Brief SEPRD invites public to meet executive director candidates The public can meet the Sunset Empire Park & Recreation District executive director candidates next week. The district will hold a meet and greet event at the Bob Chisholm Community Center from 5:30 to 7 p.m. April 23. The public is invited to attend. $OO¿QDOLVWFDQGLGDWHVIRUWKHSRVLWLRQZLOOEHLQYLWHG7KHLU interviews with a technical panel and community panel are scheduled for earlier in the day, along with a facility tour. They are scheduled to meet with the district’s board April 24. From a pool of about 40 applicants, the board narrowed the VHOHFWLRQGRZQWRVL[¿QDOLVWVDQGWKUHHDOWHUQDWHV2Q$SULO 1, the board also unanimously approved the Special Districts Association of Oregon to hire former district General Manag- er Mary Blake to serve as interim executive director until the SRVLWLRQLVSHUPDQHQWO\¿OOHG7KHERDUGH[SHFWVWRPDNHD hire by July 1. For more information, call the recreation district at 503- 738-3311 or visit www.sunsetempire.com/. Amateur radio club hosts Educational Outreach at CCC The Sunset Empire Amateur Radio Club will offer a vari- ety of amateur radio demonstrations on Saturday, April 25, at the Clatsop Community College in Astoria, in Towler Hall, Room 207, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The public is invited, and refreshments will be served. By the end of the demonstrations, a person will have a bet- ter understanding of the amateur radio hobby and the wide range of activities it can offer, how the ham radio technology FDQDSSO\WRRWKHUSURIHVVLRQDO¿HOGVDQGLWVLPSRUWDQFHLQ providing an emergency communication system during natu- ral disasters when standard communications systems are dis- rupted. For more information, email W7BU@sunset-empire-arc. org, visit www.sunset-empire-arc.org online, or go to Face- book and search for Sunset Empire Amateur Radio Club. 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