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A6 • Friday, November 12, 2021 | Seaside Signal | SeasideSignal.com Safe rides: Opportunities to promote education, school transportation alternatives Continued from Page A1 R.J. Marx The post offi ce in Gearhart. ZIP code: ‘We need to fi gure out how this is going to work’ Continued from Page A1 dining • the arts • music shopping • museums • classes • movies gardening • news • blogs • more DINING on the NORTH COAST Great Restaurants in: GEARHART • SEASIDE CANNON BEACH WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE LOCALS GO? • Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner • Junior Menu RESTAURANT & LOUNGE • Lighter appetite menu E RIL Y’ Fish ‘n Chips • Burgers • Seafood & Steak Friday & Saturday - Prime Rib Lounge Open Daily 9-Midnight All Oregon Lottery products available 1104 S Holladay • 503-738-9701 • Open Daily at 8am Cannon Beach Chocolate Cafe 10% OFF your purchase through 11/30/21 MILKSHAKE HAPPY HOUR 3PM-5PM, $1 OFF ALL MILKSHAKES 232 N. 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Do. what I do believe is the larg- est majority of people in the city of Gearhart.” Jesse asked for a delay on a council vote until more information was collected. “We need to fi gure out how this is going to work,” he said. “If we don’t know the answer to that, we should not be voting on this tonight.” Cockrum suggested the city conduct more due dili- gence and make contact with the Postal Service, “maybe up the chain a little bit.” “Maybe we can make a call and talk to somebody and fi nd out what some pos- sible solutions might be before we move forward,” she said. There is one other pos- sible concern, Kozij added. “This case is actually beyond Gearhart needing a unique ZIP code,” she said. “It’s that some Seaside cus- tomers would want Gearhart to not share theirs.” A community eff ort tal and Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District. “We all need to talk to each other, we all need to get together, we all need to come up with solutions, and we will fi gure this out,” he said. At the same time, they need to consider how the school campus might change over the next 10 years, which could see the bus barn being moved to the hill or construc- tion of other new facilities. “We’re trying to get everybody in sync, because over the next 10 years, there are going to be other changes and other additions up here that will create some traffi c,” McDowell said. “Let’s at least bring them to the forefront now.” S Since the 1960s, Gear- hart mail has been routed through the Seaside Post Offi ce to the Gearhart Post Offi ce. Because they share the same ZIP code, mail addressed to Fourth Street in Gearhart may end up at Fourth Avenue in Seaside, and vice versa, Gearhart Post Offi ce manager Karynn Kozij said. Misdirected mail requires costly research, redirection and delays. Many online sites utilize the Postal Ser- vice’s national ZIP code database and do not allow overriding the default city name based on the ZIP code. A unique ZIP code would make it easier for the post offi ce to distribute and deliver packages and eas- ier for the customer to locate the package, Kozij said. Eric Anderson, a Third Street resident, said he often uses his home address for sending and receiving items. “Due to our shared ZIP code with Seaside, my deliveries are often compro- mised,” he said in a letter to the City Council. “I have had items shown as delivered but never received. My counter- parts at Seaside’s Third Ave- nue are often the fi rst and/or only stop for such items.” FedEx driver Chris Thode, a former postal ser- vice employee in Seaside, said in correspondence there are times when numbers can get mixed up because of the confusion between addresses. “Most of the drivers that I know can diff erentiate and know where to deliver, but there are times that the address is not right or the driver is new on the job,” Thode said. “It’s just com- mon sense.” In October, with approval from the City Council, city staff prepared a resolution on a formal request for the new ZIP code. But confusion over num- bered and lettered streets doesn’t impact the major- ity of the city’s postal cus- tomers, Jesse said. Because one group believes a new ZIP code is needed doesn’t mean the majority of resi- dents agree. “We have a great divide between the core commu- nity and what I believe at this point is the largest vot- ing majority of Gearhart res- idents, which are not asso- ciated with the core groups whatsoever,” Jesse said. “I’m up and down the high- way multiple times a day. That’s the Gearhart I know. “There are people here that actually refer to people like myself as ‘those peo- ple,’ like we’re the plague, the ‘scourge’ of Gearhart, because we’re not part of the downtown core — we’re on the other side. I’m sorry, I get my dander rattled by things like this because the representation is not here for As the move was solidifi ed and construc- tion began, McDowell applied for a grant from the state Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School pro- gram to fi nancially help with the audit, planning assistance and future implementation of proj- ects to improve chil- dren’s access to school. The fi rst step is tak- ing stock of the current options and infrastructure within a 1-mile radius of the school campus and identifying where there are issues, such as side- walks ending abruptly, lack of sidewalks, or inadequate lighting, to name a few. The area in question involves neigh- borhoods such as Sunset Hills, Whispering Pines, Lea Way, Spruce Drive and parts of Wahanna Road and Broadway, where the Sunset Rec- reation Center and Sea- side Public Library are located. From there, McDow- ell said, they can start developing a Safe Routes to School plan with solu- tions that make it eas- ier and safer for kids to walk and bike to school. The plan also will out- line opportunities for education and engage- ment to promote these transportation alterna- tives. At the same time, they will work on ways to bring crosswalks and other infrastructure up to current Americans with Disabilities Act regulations. 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