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Planning & Community Development: Updates to comprehensive plan in progress HILARY DORSEY Editor
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incoln Cityâs Planning & Community Development Department provided an update to the Lincoln City Council Monday, March 14, on the departmentâs 2022 work plan and goals, an overview of tasks accomplished and those planned for the year. Director Anne Marie Skinner said planning application forms have been updated. Building permit packets have also been revised and are available. Forms and applications can be found at https://bit.ly/3MSYrk6 âIn 2023, itâs my goal to look at the building permit fee schedule,â Skinner said. The comprehensive plan update is in progress, Skinner added. There was
a public comment session Tuesday, March 15, about housing. In April, there will be a public comment session on public facilities and services. May will focus on transportation and June on coastal shorelands. âIn July, there will be one on natural resources,â Skinner said of the public comment sessions. âIâd like to have another one in August and another one in September just as an overall on any of those topics for any individual who wasnât able to get comments in during one of the specific sessions.â Skinnerâs goal is to work on putting together the draft and have it ready for the planning commission for January hearings. She hopes by this time next year, the city will have an updated comprehensive plan. âThere are seven bills dealing with housing that I need to incorporate into
our code just so that people know that we have incorporated them,â Skinner said. There are city-owned properties that need to be rezoned, Skinner added. These include properties that are slated for Taft Park, one that is part of another park, and then a couple that have deed restrictions that mandate they be zoned either park or open space. House Bill 2918 requires a yearly surplus land inventory report. âThey are supposed to be compiling all of it and putting it on this large map so that people can access that and I guess see what lands jurisdictions own,â Skinner said. Skinner said she is working to update the cityâs Housing Needs Analysis. The update will give the city a true picture of housing needs. Send comments to: newsguardeditor@countrymedia.net.
BottleDrop network expands to Lincoln City Safeway
Candidates running in May primary election, ahead of general election
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State Sen. Dick Anderson drops off a Blue Bag with the T-Rex from local nonprofit Family Promise.
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incoln City-area residents now have improved access to a convenient 10-cent beverage container redemption option thanks to the arrival of a new BottleDrop Green and Blue Bag drop location at the Lincoln City Safeway, located at 4101 NW Logan Road. âOregonâs Bottle Bill remains one of the most successful recycling programs in the world,â said State Sen. Dick Anderson. âI advocated strongly to get the BottleDrop network expanded to Lincoln City so that area residents and local nonprofits can enjoy easy access to a modern and convenient bulk redemption option.â Through the Green and Blue Bag programs, individuals (via Green Bags) and nonprofits (via Blue Bags) can conveniently redeem containers in bulk, placing metal, plastic and glass containers all in the same bags and dropping them
off at any BottleDrop bag drop location in Oregon, instead of redeeming them one container at a time. Customers place unique QR code bag tag stickers onto their bags, which associate the contents of those bags with the customerâs BottleDrop account. Bags are counted and credited to customer accounts within seven days âand often more quickly. âWe couldnât be happier to bring this new container redemption option to Lincoln City, making recycling bottles and cans easier than ever for our customers in the area,â said Randy Alimossy, the store director at Lincoln City Safeway. âWe are dedicated to preserving the planet as part of our day-to-day business, and this new amenity will contribute to progress on our sustainability goals.â
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he primary election will take place May 17. The deadline to file was March 8. The general election candidates for State Representative, 10th District, are already decided. Democrat State Rep. David Gomberg is seeking re-election of the 10th District, a two-year position. Gomberg has been representing the district since 2013. District 10 includes central coast ranges from Tillamook to Yachats and inland to Sheridan. Republican Celeste McEntee, of Moâs Enterprises, is running against Gomberg. Five candidates are running for Lincoln County Commissioner, position 1, a four-year term. The position is currently held by Commissioner Doug Hunt, who has served on the board for 10 years and is not seeking reelection. Running for the position are Walter Chuck, who serves on the Port of Newport Commission; Greg Holland, mayor of Waldport; Carter McEntee, general manager at Moâs Enterprises; Casey L. Miller, public information officer for Lincoln County; and Mitch Parsons, Lincoln City councilor. Commissioner Kaety Jacobson is seeking reelection of position 3, a four-
year term. Other candidates include Randy J. Mallette, owner of Pipe Dreams, Lincoln Cityâs first marijuana dispensary; Ryan Parker, Newport city councilor; and Mark Watkins, a Lincoln County Search and Rescue officer and businessman. Lincoln County Circuit Court Judge Amanda Benjamin is running unopposed. At the state level, over 30 candidates are running for governor of Oregon. Gov. Kate Brown is not able to run for re-election due to term limits. For Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, seven candidates are running. A race for the Oregon Supreme Court is running uncontested, as well as five on the Oregon Court of Appeals. At the national level, Democrat U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is seeking re-election. Two other Democrats are running against him in the primary election and seven Republicans for the November election. The United States Representative in Congress, 4th District, has nine Democrats and one Republican seeking election, as Rep. Peter DeFazio is retiring after 36 years in Congress. The last day to register to vote in the primary election is April 26. Ballots will be mailed out April 27.
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