From the Editor’s Desk
Published 7:24 am Sunday, August 28, 2022
- Hood to Coast 2022. The organization signed a five-year agreement to continue the race, beginning at Mount Hood and concluding in Seaside.
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Seaside is looking into the future to address homeless and affordable housing needs. A new shelter through a partnership with Helping Hands and other community organizations, along with a land transfer from the county intended to provide property for housing and social services. The two properties are part of 15 parcels specified by Clatsop County for transfer to local cities, special districts, local service nonprofits and nonprofit housing developers.
The city anticipates a zone change to allow outright usage for single-family dwellings, duplexes, residential homes or facilities, day care providers or residential home care. Conditional uses include churches, nursing homes and park space.
Leading hotelier
Terry Bichsel is one of those quiet leaders who have played a key role in Seaside’s path for the last three decades. The owner of the Rivertide Suites Hotel, Bichsel’s credentials as former chairman of the board of Best Western International makes him a premiere voice for the hospitality industry. Bichsel reflected on the recent sale of his Best Western Plus Ocean View resort and shared his views of city policy, including the closings as a result of the pandemic.
Highlands site
Gearhart City Council members have a tough decision to make, when they meet to decide whether to pursue a land-swap deal with developers of the Cottages at Gearhart.
According to terms of the August 2021 contingent land transfer agreement signed by the city and developers of Cottages at Gearhart LLC, two parcels would be turned over to the city, a 3-acre park parcel on the south side and a 1-acre parcel on top of the dune site. Potential benefits would include added buildable land stock and redundancy of the water system. The site could serve as a helicopter landing area or dunes passageway in the event of a Cascadia Subduction Zone event.
But with everything to do with the firehouse charged politically in Gearhart’s social media landscape, the disdain for the project shown in its defeat with the voters in May, could lead to a rethinking of policy.
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