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33.5-acres owned by The Cottages of Gearhart, the large area framed by the yellow borders, alongside U.S. Highway 101 and
Highlands Avenue north of Gearhart.
Firehouse: New site is ‘nothing but good news’
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growth boundary. As long
as the land remains in Clat-
sop County, developers are
limited to two lots per acre.
If they come into the Gear-
hart urban growth bound-
ary, developers could build
on four lots per acre.
The elevation at the
Highlands site is between
70 feet to 72 feet, 10 feet
higher than the High Point
site on North Marion
Avenue.
Residents and city offi -
cials have sought to replace
the Gearhart’s fi rehouse ,
which was constructed in
1958 and is considered
vulnerable in a Cascadia
subduction zone event.
A subsequent survey
indicated the High Point
site best of available alter-
natives. Offi cials had con-
sidered a bond issue to
fund the resiliency station
this November.
The Highlands proposal
comes at a time when the
High Point resiliency sta-
tion site faces legal chal-
lenges from the Palisades
Homeowners Association
and a reluctant seller.
When the fi rehouse
committee
considered
potential fi rehouse sites,
the Cottages property
was excluded since it was
outside the city’s urban
growth boundary.
Since then developers
have told the city they are
willing to donate a portion
of the property as well as
land for a public park, sav-
ing an estimated $3 mil-
lion to $3 1/2 million that
would have been required
for the purchase of land at
High Point.
Before the transaction
can be made, the state’s
Department of Land Con-
servation and Develop-
ment must approve a swap
of city-owned land in the
“no-build” area in the
urban growth boundary
along Gearhart’s western
edge.
The city will need to
establish that the urban
growth boundary proposal
“meets the criteria that
makes the most sense.”
Watts said preliminary
site studies could cost
$15,000 to $20,000. The
city’s consulting fi rm will
likely be “someone who
has not previously looked
at this but someone who
has a lot of experience in
the area and who I think
can offi cially deal with the
issues. For this process,
it’s really important that it
be an independent, neutral
look.”
Watts said the city hopes
to move forward with the
state and a planning con-
sultant at the Highlands
site within the next month.
“There’s really nothing
but good news about that
particular location,” Watts
said.
Budget: Gearhart to deliver $35,300 to nonprofi ts
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That number will prob-
ably increase next year, he
said.
Building permits are
also on the rise, budgeted at
$200,000 for 2020 to 2021.
“And we received already
$235,000 with May and June
still to come,” he said.
He projected a slowing
down in future building per-
mit fees as available build-
able lands in Gearhart are
reduced.
Of expenditures, the
administrative department
comprises the largest portion
of the proposed budget, at
$458,000, including person-
nel, materials and services,
capital and outlay.
The city administrator’s
salary sees a “placeholder”
increase of 3%, or $2,400,
or about $94,500 annually,
to be reviewed by the City
Council at a later date.
Expenses for the building
inspector rose signifi cantly,
from $128,000 to $211,000.
Personnel expenses in the
police department, including
salary and benefi ts, total just
over $413,000.
The fi re department’s
total outlay for personnel of
$322,000, includes fi nancing
for a fi re chief, fi refi ghter and
part-time labor.
A new item, called “Com-
munity Care,” budgeted at
$5,000, could be used by the
police department to assist
transients or help house peo-
ple for a “momentary, short
period of time, usually one
night,” Mayor Paulina Cock-
rum said. “It’s a way for us
start to wrap our arms around
the safety and health and
well-being of people who
happen to be in Gearhart and
are needing assistance.”
The city has budgeted
$8,000 for a potential
November fi rehouse elec-
tion, “but that amount is actu-
ally a bit high,” Sweet said.
He said the number would
likely be closer to $5,000,
but could also cover some of
the work that has to be done
within for election materials
and services.
The city’s portion of state
revenue sharing, $35,300,
was awarded after a public
hearing. Combined, orga-
nizations sought a total of
$47,600.
Nonprofi ts seeking a
share of city dollars included
the South County Food
Bank, The Harbor and the
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Necanicum Watershed Council $1,000
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North Coast Food Web $3,000
Helping Hands $3,000
Seaside Park & Rec Scholarships $500
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CCA Regional Food Bank $3,000
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Seaside Gearhart Airport Committee $500
Mayors Emergency Grant $5,300
Total: $35,300
Seaside Hall, a recovery cen-
ter on North Holladay by
the First United Method-
ist Church. Other requests
came from Helping Hands,
the Sunset Empire Park and
Recreation District Founda-
tion, which gives out schol-
arships to local students for
park district programs. The
Seaside Airport sought $500
for bicycles for out-of-town
Luxury vinyl planks and tile.
pilots after they land.
Community Emergency
Response Team funds, pre-
viously part of revenue shar-
ing funds, are now budgeted
at $3,000 for the hazard miti-
gation fund.
Committee
members
unanimously approved the
amended budget. The budget
moves to the City Council in
June for approval.
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Two
contractors
responded to inquiries for the
cost of parking lots, around
$25 million to $30 million
for four fl oors of parking,
Frank said.
In one estimate, the plan
puts 160 spaces on each fl oor,
with an average of $39,000
per parking space. The sec-
ond estimate, from Skanska,
puts 749 stalls in the lot at the
R.J. Marx
same price per space.
Business owners were Seaside businesses met at a workshop on parking at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
resistant to paid parking.
“I think the business here,’ ‘you’re gonna pay for ing could also have the unin- we’ve worked so hard to get
model for the downtown this, you’re gonna pay for tended consequence of push- people here, we built our
community is built in large that,’ yeah, you’re gonna ing drivers into surrounding downtown business commu-
part around having free pub- lose people,” Swenson said. areas where there is no fee. nity around having free pub-
lic parking,” business owner “People want to stay where “As a city and business com- lic parking.”
The parking group’s next
Wayne Poole said. “It’s scary they’re comfortable, where munity, we need to think
to me that we might really they can aff ord to take their about our neighbors or our step is to consider options
change our image, or Sea- kids to the arcade, or buy a local residents that have their and consequences, Pos-
side, and the cost to employ- hot dog or ride the carousel homes in the surrounding alski said. “We’re talking
once. We need to look at it as areas, to try not to put a strain about decentralized park-
ees and business owners.”
on them to lose the parking in ing as being the solution. It
Lodging owner Ruth a whole.”
Ter Har said he did not front of them,” Ter Har said. would be worth talking to
Swenson said paid parking
want Seaside to be a leader
“We’re opposed to the some people coming to town
could drive visitors away.
“Once you start throwing, in bringing paid parking to paid parking and the parking and see if that would be a
‘you’re gonna pay to park the North Coast. Paid park- lot,” Poole said. “You know, solution.”
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