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opportunity for a new cam-
pus outside of the inunda-
tion zone. Dougherty helped
drive community support —
along with the addition of
impassioned student voices
— for a vote again in 2016.
In a 65% to 35% vote,
residents endorsed the $99.7
million plan to replace
schools at an 80-acre loca-
tion on Spruce Drive above
Seaside Heights Elementary
School.
“We’ve been working on
this for almost 30 years,”
Dougherty said. “It’s a proj-
ect that fi rst started out
slowly. It got a lot of local
attention, then national
attention, and it was very
helpful. But it really was
the community that came
around and made this a real-
ity for the next generations.”
Roberts called the new
school “remarkable, one of a
kind, a testament to the com-
munity and an incredible
commitment to our kids.”
“We are lucky to live in a
place that continues to sup-
port its kids through their
checkbooks — through
taxes and operating lev-
ies, all these things,” he
said. “It’s a special place
for everybody, regardless if
they have a kid in the build-
ing or not. That’s why this
is such an incredible com-
munity. We’ve already had
kids returning to school —
sixth, seventh, eighth grad-
ers returned in the last two
weeks — and their excite-
ment over their new learn-
ing spaces. Having roofs
that don’t leak, having desks
that fi t, tons of natural light.
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Bob Mitchell, Seaside’s director of building and code
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to Seaside School District Superintendent Susan Penrod.
It’s brought a smile to a lot
of their faces and it’s good to
be here.”
He pointed to the oppor-
tunity that awaited them as
“second to none.”
By NICOLE BALES
The Astorian
Hailey Hoff man/The Astorian
Vacation rentals in Arch Cape are required to book minimum
seven-night stays.
quality of life. Many of the
complaints deal with noise,
parking and overcrowding.
Other complaints are out of
the county’s control.
Vacation rental owners
have described their efforts
to be good neighbors and
encourage their guests to do
the same.
“And they also have con-
cerns about possible changes
to the ordinance that may
impact how they do business
or even possibly eliminate
the possibility of them doing
business,” Henrikson said.
There are two county
ordinances that regulate
vacation rentals. One is spe-
cifi c to Arch Cape, while the
other covers the remaining
unincorporated parts of the
county.
Both are similar, but
have a couple of key differ-
ences regarding parking and
length-of-stay requirements.
The Arch Cape ordinance
requires a minimum sev-
“When we stood down
there and broke ground, we
knew it was big,” school
board president Mark Truax
added. “But it was a lot big-
ger than we thought it was.”
en-night stay, and only one
reservation is allowed during
a seven-day period. Street
parking is not allowed. There
is no limit or minimum stay
requirement for other unin-
corporated areas, and street
parking is allowed.
Commissioners directed
staff to set parameters and
a scope of work for an ad
hoc committee to help com-
bine and reconcile the two
ordinances.
“Those would be the two
big areas where we would
need to have a committee
to look at it and determine
how best to reconcile,” Hen-
rikson said. “Whether it’s
taking one of the ordinance
provisions and recommend-
ing that to be adopted or just
creating some sort of com-
promise between the two
ordinances.”
The
board’s
guid-
ance on other questions
could be drafted as amend-
ments. Some of those ques-
tions include whether there
should be a “three-strikes
rule” — requiring staff to
revoke a vacation rental per-
mit after three complaints
— and penalties for people
who knowingly submit false
complaints.
Some policy items were
provided as a starting point
for future discussions,
including questions about
capping short-term rentals,
prohibiting them in certain
parts of the county and how
the lodging tax is utilized.
Henrikson said those
items will not be included
in the revisions to the ordi-
nances at this time.
“It was so clear to me how
much everybody who wrote
cared about this issue,”
said Commissioner Lianne
Thompson, who represents
South County. “Every sin-
gle person has this passion-
ate devotion to community
well-being. There is not a
consensus on what that com-
munity well-being looks
like, how it’s defi ned, none
of it. There’s no agreement.
“My concern about estab-
lishing a committee would
be it would have to have a
purview where it looked at
what was state law, what
were the sidebars. I’ve
seen some things with cit-
izen advisory committees
that have caused me great
concern.
“There have been a num-
ber of proposals that have
been in clear violation of
state law and have been
termed ‘aspirational.’ Well,
I don’t have an aspiration
to break the state law, and I
think it doesn’t help the sit-
uation when anybody thinks
that their will or their whim
or their idea or their pas-
sion, however we want to
characterize it, can have the
force of state law or county
ordinance.”
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Coast River Business Journal
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County tackles South County rental rules
During a county Board
of Commissioners work ses-
sion in February, the county
set the table for discussions,
laying out ways to tighten
short-term rental ordinances
as well as potential policies
to consider down the road.
Cities on the North Coast
have struggled to balance the
growth in vacation rentals as
the region becomes a more
popular tourist destination.
Pockets of the county have
also felt the same pressures.
Many of the questions
and policy suggestions came
out of quarterly commu-
nity discussions the county
started hosting last summer.
The virtual discussions
began in Cove Beach in
July to promote dialogue
after strife over vacation
rentals. The meetings were
expanded to Arch Cape and
Clatsop Plains.
Gail Henrikson, the coun-
ty’s community develop-
ment director, said the meet-
ings were an opportunity to
explain how the code com-
pliance process works and
how they prioritize and
address complaints.
“It was also a chance for
us to hear all of the concerns
that we were getting on a
piecemeal basis, but just
to (create) a community-
wide dialogue so everybody
was hearing the same thing
at the same time,” she said.
“And then by hearing that,
it also gave staff a chance
to begin to identify areas
in the ordinance where we
needed to make revisions to
help us better implement and
enforce it.”
During the commu-
nity meetings, residents
explained how short-term
rentals have impacted their
BUSINESS
“I’ve been here for 10
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opportunities are here for
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that opportunity for students
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Kevin Leahy, director of
the college’s Small Business
Clatsop WORKS
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Clatsop Economic Develop- Interns tour a Hampton Lumber mill.
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has many more job oppor- ships. Leahy said the steering plan to participate again this
tunities than when he was committee decided to open year.
Clatsop WORKS to both high
“When host employers
growing up here.
take students on, they get
“Unless your parents school and college students.
Funding comes from the to train and develop them
owned a business or were in
government or law enforce- local school districts, the and can hire them when the
ment, there were not a lot of college and the Northwest internship ends or after their
career options here,” Leahy Regional Education Services high school or college,” Stan-
ley said. “We work with as
said. “I’ve seen how much District.
“It continues to grow and many sectors of the economy
that has evolved in Clatsop
County. We have tourism gives students opportunities as possible to help students
but also forest products, fi sh- that are unparalleled,” Leahy fi nd work and also to fi ll gaps
local businesses are looking
ing, medical — a lot of what said.
Leahy added the employ- for.”
makes us who we are and we
Student applications are
want to transfer that to our ers have been very engaged
in helping the students gain accepted now through 5 p.m.
youth.”
Clatsop WORKS began work experience and train- on April 16 via clatsopworks.
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Several of the businesses to run from mid-to-late June
which connects Linfi eld Uni-
versity students with intern- involved in the 2020 program through mid-August.
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