May 15, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 7A
Gearhart declines to adopt a new fence ordinance
Gearhart from Page 1A
“There’s no permit re-
quirement through the city,
and without a permit require-
ment in the city we have no
way of tracking what is go-
ing on,” said Duncan after
the meeting in explaining his
vote. “The original updated
ordinance had a permit in it,
and the council decided they
didn’t like it and took it out.”
Since the fence ordinance
repeal required an emergency
declaration to bring it to the
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the board voted to do so. Since
emergency declaration votes
must be unanimous, however,
the dissenting vote of Duncan
led to a postponement of the
matter to a future council ses-
sion, likely in June, according
to City Manager Chad Sweet
on Thursday. “This would be
the slower path to a vote,”
Sweet said. He added that the
next vote could be won by a
simple council majority.
“It still can pass,” Duncan
said Wednesday night. “I just
won’t vote for it.”
Council amends
RV zoning code
The City Council picked
up discussion of the city’s
RV zoning code, after meet-
ings and hearings by the
council and Planning Com-
mission in February and
March.
The ordinance limits resi-
dents to no more than two RVs
on a residential premises, but
council members picked up
the revisions after complaints
that language in the ordinance
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of the code regulating the use
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4 meeting, opting to send the
draft language back to the Plan-
ning Commission. At its March
meeting, the commission rec-
ommended the council adopt
a revised code that provided
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parking of RVs, and added an
amendment to include boats in
tive of Medix, Houston asked
the council to issue a procla-
mation observing Emergency
Medical Service Week.
“The theme of our EMS
week is EMS Strong. And it’s
all about our partnerships that
we create with our emergency
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partments, police and hospitals,
and it’s also about our commu-
nity relationships. It’s not just
about our lights and sirens.”
Houston presented the
EMS Week
plaque to Mayor Widdop as the
Seaside native and former council adopted the resolution
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Jeremy Houston provided a ical Services Week.
plaque honoring the city for its
partnership with Medix Ambu- The Soup Bowl
Julie Soderberg, Execu-
lance Service. As a representa-
the RV ordinance. Additional
RVs could be parked on a tem-
porary basis for not more than
seven days per calendar month.
On April 29, City Planner
Carole Connor added amend-
ments to further tweak the
code.
There were no public com-
ments at Wednesday’s meet-
ing, and the revised ordinance
was unanimously approved by
members of the council.
tive Director of the Harbor
in Astoria, a shelter for vic-
tims of domestic violence,
appeared before the Coun-
cil on behalf of this year’s
“Soup Bowl” event. The
Harbor provides 24-hour re-
sponse for victims of domes-
tic violence, sexual abuse and
stalking.
She said the Soup Bowl
fundraiser features hand-
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traditional wood kiln. The
fundraiser takes place Satur-
day, May 16; ticket price in-
cludes a handmade bowl and
locally crafted soups, bread,
and coffee. $50 per person.
For more information call
503-325-8624.
Tsunami project: Getting the county prepared for ‘the big one’
nity Development Director
Heather Hansen, Building
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lic Works Director Michael
Summers and Emergency
Manager Tiffany Brown. The
Project Management Team,
along with a Project Advisory
Committee consisting of 12
agency representatives and
community members, will
recommend policies and pro-
visions to the county’s Plan-
ning Commission and Board
of Commissioners.
The project is being con-
ducted in two phases. Phase I,
where the project currently is
at, is focused on developing
comprehensive knowledge of
tsunami hazards, involving
the public and drafting provi-
sions that could implement an
appropriate strategy to prepare
for and survive an event. Phase
II is focused on adoption of
those policies and provisions.
The goal, Bunch said, is to
have draft provisions prepared
by the end of June and work
toward adoption between July
through December.
County, committee present
‘Tsunami Hazard Overlay’
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
Clatsop County is partially
through conducting a Tsuna-
mi Hazard Overlay project to
better prepare the community
for a Cascadia tsunami event
and to increase resilience by
developing new planning
provisions for the county’s
unincorporated areas.
Even though the project
only applies to unincorporat-
ed areas of the county, mutu-
al awareness from the whole
community is important since
no one knows where they
might be if a tsunami hits, said
Lianne Thompson, a Clatsop
County Commissioner and
Project Advisory Committee
member.
“We’re going to be all we
have,” she said. “While we’re
all individually responsible,
no one can do it alone. We all
need each other.”
Last week, the Project
Management Team held three
open houses throughout the
county, including Warrenton
on May 4; Astoria on May
5; and Arch Cape on May 7.
The purpose of the meetings
was to present the project to
the public and inform them
what proposed policies and
provisions have been drafted
at this point. County staff and
committee members were
available to answer questions
and interpret maps and data
for those in attendance.
According to the county,
the purpose of the Tsunami
Hazard Overlay project “is
the development of Com-
prehensive Plan and Devel-
opment Code provisions,
through a public involvement
process, to increase resilience
to a Cascadia event tsunami.”
The project was initiated
after the county received a
$7,000 technical assistance
grant from the Oregon De-
partment of Land Conser-
vation and Development in
February to help offset costs.
Guiding the project is a
management team consisting
of county staff: Senior Plan-
ner Jennifer Bunch, Commu-
Three goals
The three main goals iden-
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cation, public involvement
and the adoption of policies
and code provisions. For each
goal, the group has numerous
objectives.
In regards to education, the
group has provided opportu-
nities for county staff to learn
about tsunami hazards and data
so they can be a community
resource; maintain open com-
munication with the Board of
Commissioners and the Plan-
ning Commission through
work sessions and project up-
dates; assist community mem-
bers in becoming more aware
of the risks related to a local
meetings so community
members could locate haz-
ardous areas and safe gath-
ering places in the event of
a tsunami. The maps cov-
ered Astoria, Warrenton, the
Lianne Thompson, Project Advisory Committee member
Clatsop spit, Cannon Beach,
Arch Cape, Gearhart, Seaside
and the Youngs River area.
For the purpose of the maps,
tsunami event; and develop strict the location of essential developed by the Oregon
and disseminate new and ex- facilities – such as hospitals Department of Geology and
isting educational materials for DQG¿UHVWDWLRQV±DQGVSHFLDO Mineral Industries, the tsuna-
residents and property owners. occupancy buildings – such mi scenarios were modeled to
For public involvement, as certain public facilities, occur at high tide and to ac-
the group has worked to iden- schools and medical buildings count for local subsidence or
tify high-risk areas within un- – and their uses within the uplift of the ground surface.
The public also received
incorporated Clatsop Coun- hazard area. If, for a very spe-
ty; identify vulnerable uses, FL¿F UHDVRQ WKHVH VWUXFWXUHV handouts about how to pre-
structures and populations; must be located in a tsunami pare for a tsunami event by
develop draft provisions for hazard area, however, a “use putting together a basic emer-
gency supply kit, storing wa-
the county’s Comprehensive exception” may be allowed.
Plan; and generate multiple
The group presented some ter, making copies of import-
ant documents, signing up for
opportunities to inform and facts for the public, such as:
receive feedback from the
• Nothing proposed for the emergency and community
community through open overlay would prohibit land- alerts and other preemptive
houses, news releases and so- owners from using their land steps that can help locals sur-
vive an incident and its after-
cial media. The county-wide for residential purposes;
meetings were a way for the
• No changes to building math.
Commissioner Thompson
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“That’s our most important been proposed at this time and, said she advocates for people
component,” Bunch said. “We if they are, they need to come to personally educate them-
selves about and prepare for a
want people to understand the from the state level; and
hazards and the maps and
• The overlay could as- natural disaster in a methodi-
what it means to them.”
sign additional requirements cal way.
“You want folks con-
Later, in the adoption for subdivisions, such as
phase, the group will hold ZD\¿QGLQJVLJQVDQGLQWHUQDO cerned, but you want them
to be active,” she said. “You
publicized hearings before the evacuation route planning.
don’t want to make yourself
Planning Commission and the
Board of Commissioners to Mapping the county crazy. What you want to do
Large-scale inundation is empower yourself, and
adopt provisions to increase
safety and community resil- maps and evacuation route that’s where the increments
ience. The overlay could re- maps were available at the come in.”
‘We’re going to be all we have. While we’re all
individually responsible, no one can do it alone.
We all need each other.’
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project, which is develop-
ing a Tsunami Facilities Im-
provement Plan. The coun-
ty will work in conjunction
with cities to consider
more detailed evacuation
routes, identify vulnerable
population, develop ways
to manage debris and oth-
er aspects of emergency
preparedness and manage-
ment. That project, Bunch
said, will be led primarily
by the Clatsop County Pub-
lic Works Department, and
the county is applying for a
$50,000 Transportation and
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the project, Bunch said, “if
we did proceed without the
grant, it would be at a much
slower pace.”
The advisory commit-
tee’s meetings are open to
the public. The next meet-
ings are at 10 a.m. May 18 at
800 Exchange St., Suite 430,
Astoria, and 10 a.m. June 22
at the Boyington Building,
857 Commercial St. Astoria.
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contact Bunch at (503) 325-
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