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Rentals: permit moratorium is sought
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Jeff Ter Har
Seaside Civic and Convention Center General Manager Russ Vandenberg cuts the ribbon
celebrating the offi cial reopening after a renovation and expansion
Remodel: Convention center celebrates
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Renovations
and
upgrades to ballrooms,
offi ces, the lobby, light-
ing, storage and more are
among the major changes
unveiled, as the facility
grew from 46,000 square
feet to 55,000 square feet,
an increase of nearly 19
percent.
Vandenberg
offered
credit for the on-time,
under budget project to
convention center staff and
commissioners, contrac-
tors, management team and
city partners.
Throughout construction,
the center remained active
and booked: Of 420 con-
struction days, the center
was occupied for 290. “To
keep your staff working with
300 or 400 bridge players
who don’t even like to hear
someone sneeze is a very
diffi cult task,” he quipped.
The renovation and
expansion is to be paid for
BY THE NUMBERS
Construction budget $15 million
Expansion increase 46,000 square feet to 55,000 square
feet
Planning
Commission
Chairman Chris Hoth said
the commission had dis-
cussed a possible morato-
rium at previous meetings,
buton the advice of the city
attorney Dan Van Thiel
determined that “doing what
we’d like to do isn’t neces-
sarily what we can do.”
“We’re not entirely free
to say, ‘It’s a big problem,
let’s cut the whole damn
thing off until we fi x it,’”
Hoth said. “We might like to
do that ... but will it stick?”
A cap on total num-
bers for homes currently
and historically sitting
empty is “counterproduc-
tive to fostering economic
growth,” property manager
Mark Tolan said during the
meeting’s public comment
Todd Van Horne seeks a
moratorium on vacation
rental dwelling permits.
period. “The current sys-
tem works, but lacks teeth
when property managers are
not local and invested in the
well-being of the neighbor-
hood above all else.”
In continuing this item
until the commission’s Octo-
ber meeting, planning com-
missioners sought to have
participation from appli-
cants, and will hear the mat-
ter on Oct. 1.
“We can all see that there
are problems and we’re
attempting to deal with it,”
Hoth told the Van Hornes.
“What you’re saying is help-
ful to us in learning to deal
with things. At the same
time, it’s a complex issue.”
A Planning Commission
work session on vacation
rental dwellings is scheduled
for Sept. 17, and a joint City
Council and Planning Com-
mission workshop planned
for Monday, Sept. 30.
“It’s front of mind — it’s
what we’re talking about
right now,” Planning Com-
missioner David Posalski
added.
Total increase in meeting space 21%
Complete interior renovation 100%
Work completed local contractors 70%
Lewis and Clark: Expedition returns
Construction days 420
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Event usage days 290
by Lyle Gleason, Sid Stof-
fels, John Orthmann and
DeWayne Pritchett.
“We have to rebuild
the salt cairn every year,”
Fedje said. The city is gra-
cious enough to provide
some heavy equipment. to
do that.”
Building the cairn means
digging a pit, restacking the
rocks and fl attening the area
“as we can. we also have
to build the shelter, which
is always interesting. They
said build a comfortable
structure but didn’t give us
any more explanation other
that that.”
New events contracted 10
Economic impact 2018 $36.3 million
Transient room tax to fund project 2%
by an increase in the city’s
transient room tax, from 8
percent to 10 percent, which
went into effect last summer.
The center has already
booked 10 new events
because of the expanded
space, Vandenberg added.
“In 1970 the council and
the commission brought
this plan together to build a
convention center,” Mayor
Jay Barber said at the event.
“A lot of people said, ‘A
convention center in Sea-
side? Who would come to
a convention in Seaside?’
And here it is all these
years later, two other ren-
ovations and this $15 mil-
lion one. This is the facil-
ity in our community that
drives the city’s economic
engine.”
R.J. Marx
“More of a wigwam than a
teepee” is how historians
described this.
The historians were prop-
ping up a shelter as we
spoke, with a squarish shape
more of a “wigwam than a
teepee,” Fedje said.
The historians travel with
a crew of seven, plus two
interpreters guiding visitors.
Members come from all
over the United States, Fedje
said. “I happen to come from
Utah. these guys are from
Washington. The lady right
there is from Oregon.”
Clouds hung over the
scene on the beach near U
Street early Friday afternoon
— perfect Lewis and Clark
weather.
“They spent a little over
three months here, closer to
fi ve, probably, it didn’t rain
12 days and they saw the sun
six days,” Fedje said. “This
would be perfect if it would
stay this way.”
I got screened.
Now, I’m talking about it.
Seaside Police
‘Viable’
explosive device
found on beach
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if you’ve been screened, please talk
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By R.J .MARX
Seaside Signal
Downtown
Seaside
reopened to traffi c after an
incendiary device found at
the beach led to the closure
of Avenue A between South
Columbia and South Edge-
wood midday Thursday,
Sept. 5.
Seaside Police say the
object, described as plastic
tubing capped at both ends
with duct tape, was a via-
ble device fi lled with black
powder substitute. The fuse
appears to have burned out
before initiating the powder.
After fi nding the item on
the beach Thursday morning,
an individual called police to
turn it over for disposal.
When an offi cer arrived
on scene, the item was
placed on the ground by the
person who found it, the area
was secured, and the Oregon
State Police Explosives Unit
was requested. Avenue A
and neighboring streets were
closed to protect the public
and fi rst responders.
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