CONDOMINIUMS IN YACHATS
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PLANNING COMMISSION
Rod Smith547-4016
Jim Dutcher547-3171
Andrea Scharf547-3092
John Thorton547-3249
Ed Pfannmuller547-3141
John Ullman547-4400
Dan Serbu547-3703
CITY COUNCIL
Arthur Roberts   (Mayor)  547-4179
Joel Evans547-3968    Donald McDonald547-3160
Paul Plunk547-3174    Martha Dillen547-3473

CITY RECORD
Nancy Otterson   547-3565

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Responce to letter sent to city hall asking the following question.
Who Gave You The Right To Have Condominiums In This Town?

CITY OF YACHATS
441 North Highway 101
P.O. Box 345
Yachats, Oregon 97498

September 8, 1998

Mr. Pearson:

This letter is in response to the first questions you asked in your reply received today.

Who gave you the right to have condominiums in this town?

Condominiums are allowed in certain zones within the City as part of a diverse land use plan for the City. These plans and ordinances are developed to protect personal property rights while at the same time ensuring that development is in the public's best interest.

The Comprehensive Plan for the City of Yachts and current Ordinances designate the zones, and provide the standards, provisions, and restrictions for uses within those zones. The land use ordinance lists the specific uses that are allowed as an outright use within each zone, and others that may be allowed as a conditional use, following a public hearing procedure.

The Comprehensive Plan and all Ordinances are developed by the volunteers serving on the Planning Commission and the elected officials on the City Council. Public hearings are held at both levels before an ordinance is adopted, public input is encouraged, and all meetings are public. Providing for extensive public input ensures that the plan and ordinances reflect the wishes of the majority of the citizens.

The Comprehensive Plan is reviewed each ten years and the City is beginning that process now for the 2000 review. Ordinances are reviewed by the Planning Commission as part of their ongoing duties. In addition, the Committee for Citizen Involvement has been established to help make sure the public is informed.

REBUTTAL
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  1. Where is all this extra water coming from to support these people? When the city water commissioner moans and groans of lack of water with rationing. This condo and others could house more then 20 people each on the same area of land that 2 homes that would occupy at 2 to 4 people per home.

    Here is an excerpt from the last City Of Yachats Newsletter, Date September 1998. Title: Water Restrictions Amended

    "While low stream flows stall exist, and the amount of water coming into the plant is even less then it was a mouth ago, Public Works Superintendent reported that conservation efforts of the citizen, the end of the summer tourist season, and the repair of leaks found last week have all helped the situation.

    Public Works Superintendent recommend that while most of the restriction should be kept in place, the outdoor water times could be extend to the weekends.

    There is more. But I thank you get the point.

  2. Where is all of this extra sewage going? With a backyard swimming pool sewage treatment plant. It looks like they cart it away by tanker truck now. Of course you can build more plants, to create more city diet. Like the cites million dollar water diet. P.S.I know that the neighbors around the sewage plant would like that a lot. At less when a new home is built they aren't stacked up like a three floor condo therefore less people, less water, less sewage and less city diet.

  3. Where is the fire department and ambulance service going to get extra money to support these new developments when they are always asking for donations to stay afloat.

  4. Where has all the property values gone. Let's face it! Would you like a three store building 40 feet tall and 10 feet away. Looking over your house 24 hours a day.

    How would this effect the value of your house and property. Especially if you where thanking of selling it. P.S.What ever happen to the 30 ft. height limit that a home or building could be in the city of Yachats.


  

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SURVEY RESULTS
Love Condos in Yachats 18
Hate Condos in Yachats 68
Care less about Condos 21

COMMENTS FROM SURVEY

JEFT WROTE

The charm of Yachats is its quaint feel. Building Condo's will turn Yachats into another cheezy trap.
( like Cannon Beach)

STELLA WROTE

As a property owner and a coastal dweller for 15 years, I would ask thatthe planning committees NOT allow large multi-family dwellings and buildings over 30' tall. Ourcoast is a very fragile environment, and we should be sure that structuresand infrastructures are kept low-impact. If we as a community are patient, the SCENIC BYWAY designation of Hwy. 101 should translate into car-tour dollars for the hospitality businesses and gift shops. Let's put ourdollars and sense into maintaining and improving Hwy.101 itself-- it hashistorical merit as one of the classic road trips in America-- and in maintaining and creating UNOBSTRUCTED views and vistas on the west side of 101.

CHIME WROTE

Orange County, California, was once as beautiful as Yachats. Now it's an overbuilt concrete jungle like L.A. We have many condos and I've lived in them for 20 years. Imagine living in an apartment complex with no privacy and throw in the government control(the association). When I can buy a home, it will be out of State.

DAVE WROTE

I'm a former resident of Oregon and have been visiting Yachats at least once a year for the last 30+ years. So, this is an "outsider's" viewpoint...

I don't want to see shiny, big expensive cookie-cutter condos in Yachats. If we wanted that kind of environment, we'd go visit Lincoln City. Let's face it, north of Newport the Oregon coast gets kind-of trashy. Yachats was a very special, laid-back, relaxing place when our family first began spending New Year's Eve there over 30 years ago. It still retains most all of that charm when I bring my own family there even as recently as last August. We love Yachats because it ISN'T commercial, glitzy and pandering to short-term visitors who are interested in only new amenities. Yachats natural beauty, isolation, rustic charm, slow-pace and quiet atmosphere are what bring us back every year. My kids absolutely love eating at Leroy's Blue Whale. Would we have as much fun at yet another Red Robin or other national chain or at a fancier cafe trying to emulate the over-built, snobish, over-crowded, over-priced New England coastal town model? I think not.

Why should Yachats want to be "just like everyone else"? Yachats doesn't need new, high-density condos and their expensive rents or the snooty tourists who will fill them and who couldn't care less about Yachats or the coast. For the fancy amenities they want, they can stay anywhere else.

I know residents of Yachats are the ones to decide the future of your town. If you want to copy Cannon Beach, Seaside, Lincoln City and every other commerical resort/vacation area in the US, that's your community's choice. I urge you to resist that notion and preserve and enhance those unique qualities that make Yachats the best vacation spot I've ever been to (and that includes Vail, Colo. and other areas in all four corners of the US).

Don't make a new Hampton Inn or a 4-story blockhouse of 2-bdroom condos complete with in-room spa the reason people come to Yachats. Let folks interested in that sort of vacation experience go somewhere else. They can pick from anywhere in the US. Leave Yachats for those of us who are intentionally fleeing that part of America.

Again, I'm from the outside and I'm not demanding anything from your community or year-round residents. This is just the opinion of someone who loves Yachats very much, misses it dearly when he's not there, who looks forward to coming back..... and who dreams of retiring at 42 and spending the rest of my life in Yachats. I envy those of you who live there already.

YVES WROTE

Condos don't belong in Yachats. Such a small town has other housing resources to fall back on.

It doesn't make sense to extend the limited resources of a community to the point where your quality of living is compromised. Let's face it, do you honestly think that if one complex is allowed to go up, that it will be the only one? Growth is inevitable but let's keep it small. It comes down to what you prefer, a Gem or a Chandelier. .....'Chandelier of the Oregon Coast', nah.

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