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• Behavioral health care in Seaside

Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare opened two facilities for people with behavioral health concerns at an open house and ribbon-cutting on April 12.

Offices will provide intake and treatment services. One-bedroom apartments are available to those who qualify, with 24-hour staffing to prioritize people with significant behavioral health concerns.

The apartments will be a place where people feel heard and understood, Amy Baker, the executive director of Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare, said, with the aim to help them further their recovery.

“I want to address the chronic homeless situation,” Baker said at the event. “As long as there’s a need, we’re going to keep growing services. We’re building permanent, supportive housing so that folks will be able to step out of transitional housing and into permanent care. And we’re just going to keep going from there. This is just a start.”

• School rezoning

The plan to rezone the 8 1/2 acres and the former Gearhart Elementary School went before the Planning Commission Thursday night. Commissioners looked unfavorably on the plans, which would establish higher density units on the property and list the 24,000-square-foot school building as a single-family residence.

Concerns that the plans were incomplete and failed to meet the city’s comprehensive plan led to opposition from residents and planners alike. Residents questioned the plan, which would have converted the former 24,000-square-foot school into a single-family residence and reconfiguration of the two adjacent properties to accommodate medium-density residential housing.

Despite an 11th-hour offer by Morey to move into the former school building himself with his wife and family, planners rejected the plan after a three-hour hearing, public testimony and 133 pages of correspondence.

• Hammer& Stain

Seaside’s newest entrepreneurs are Jason Edwards and his son, Owen Edwards. They are the pair behind Hammer & Stain, a do-it-yourself space on S. Roosevelt Drive.

Jason Edwards graduated from Seaside High School in 1991 and spent many years in the education field, he said during a meeting of the Seaside Chamber of Commerce on April 5.

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