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The police station project was taking shape in July as crews erected exterior walls.
City hall and police station projects on pace WILL CHAPPELL Gazette Editor
After April groundbreakings, work on Cannon Beach’s new city hall and police station are progressing apace, with groundwork underway at the city hall and exterior walls already going up at the police station. City hall construction remains on pace for a July 2026 opening, while the police station, originally scheduled for a June 2026 opening, is currently two weeks ahead of schedule. The project team invited the Gazette to a mid-July construction meeting and offered a tour of both sites as well as looks at the plans for both buildings. At the city hall construction site on Gower Street, around 150 helical piers that will stabilize the building’s foundation had been sunk to an average of 60 feet, and forms for concrete installation had See CITY HALL, Page B1
Helical piers had been driven and some forms installed at the police station as a rebar delivery was awaited to complete form installation.
Cottage Tour Is Only a Month Away PIERCE BAUGH V
For Liz Scott, director of the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum, the Cannon Beach Cottage Tour is a year in the making. “It’s a full year of planning,” Scott said of the biggest fundraising event of the year for the history center. For Kerry Burg and James Adams, who will be showing their cottage at this year’s tour, it’s been 15 years in the making, since they last showed their cottage in 2010. One of Cannon Beach’s biggest events of the year, the cottage tour, once again gives a unique look into the cottages that give Cannon Beach its beloved village feel. In its twenty-second year, the cottage tour will be looking south to Tolovana Park. “That has a lot of history to it. It was plotted in the late 1800s, which is really cool, by two steamboat captains named Mark and William Warren,” Scott said. When the tour first started 22 years ago, the number of attendees was around 30, but in the intervening years the tour has grown
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substantially, with over 500 people attending last year. That many people coming to the cottage tour is a lot of work for Scott and the rest of the history center workers, but despite all the time it takes to put on such an event, it’s always worth it. “The feedback we get every year is how enjoyable it is, and how thoughtfully curated the houses are,” Scott said. Kerry Burg has long been a fan of the cottage tour, now this year
will once again be her turn to show off her cottage in the Tolovana Park neighborhood. However, her cottage looks quite different now compared to when she first showed it in 2010. When Burg and Adams purchased the cottage in 2008, it was only 850 square feet, and much of it was the same since it was built in 1942 as part of a WWII housing project and evenSee COTTAGE TOUR, Page B4
See STR CAP, Page B2
The Puffin Pop PIERCE BAUGH V
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Cannon Beach’s city council began discussions about the implementation of a cap on the number of short-term rental properties in the city at their meeting on July 1, directing city staff to move forward on an ordinance limiting them to 165. Half a dozen residents of the Haystack Heights neighborhood also spoke at the meeting about their concerns over the proliferation of short-term rental (STR) properties in their neighborhood and several councilors floated the possibility of exclusion zones or density restrictions for different neighborhoods. Councilor Lisa Kerr began the discussion among councilors, acknowledging the concerns of Haystack Heights residents and adding that the same issues had arisen in the presidential streets, on the north end of town and in the Tolovana neighborhood. Kerr said that every part of the community had a desire for a neighborhood of their own and that she favored a cap to help achieve this goal. Kerr said that she thought the cap needed to be between 100 and 150 licenses and that the council should move fast to institute it to avoid a scramble for permits. Councilor Erik Ostrander said that he was interested in the possibility of exclusion zones or density limits for the properties, such as exist in Seaside, saying they could help to preserve certain neighborhoods while allowing others that had been specifically designed for rental properties to continue. Councilor Deanna Hammond said that she was also in favor of density limitations as she thought they were more fair than a cap. Councilor Gary Hayes said that he was in favor
It’s been an odd year for puffins in Cannon Beach. Jenny Gooldy of the Haystack Rock Awareness Program has confirmed this. “We’ve had kind of a different season, this one,” Gooldy says. “It just doesn’t have the same feel as it has over the last year.” The puffin numbers have been lower this season than in recent years, something Gooldy thinks might have to do with the bald eagle activity at Haystack Rock. Bald eagles prey on seabirds like puffins. Though puffin numbers were looking promising at the beginning of the season, the increased bald eagle activity at Haystack Rock, where the puffins nest, could have interfered with this year’s turnout. “We saw a good delay in the birds really wanting to get into their nesting areas on the rock,” says Gooldy. While HRAP won’t know the exact puffin numbers till October or November. Last year, the number of puffins in the area reached over 100. This year, Gooldy thinks that mark won’t be met. And while HRAP can’t point
to one factor for the decreased puffin activity, bald eagles are believed to be the biggest inhibitor. Haystack Rock has historically been a good place for puffins due to the lack of predators that are able to reach it. But even numbers above 100 are far less than the estimated 300 to 600 puffins that were estimated to come to Cannon Beach 30 years ago. While the system for counting puffins wasn’t as accurate as it is today, there has been a noticeable decline in the past three decades. The biggest factor believed to be leading to the decrease in population is the shrinking of food sources. With rising ocean temperatures, food sources that were once plentiful now require seabirds to hunt further off the coast, making it harder for birds to travel back and forth from their nests successfully. Overfishing could also be contributing to the decline in puffins. “There are so many different things. We don’t know if it’s also human-related. So, there are a lot of things they’re trying to pinpoint. If they can find out exSee PUFFINS, Page B3