County Moves To High Risk As More COVID 19 Cases Are Reported Details Published: 21 April 2021
A fourth person working on the staff at Clatsop Community College and a staffer working for the city of Astoria have been reported as infected with the coronavirus and this week the county reported more infected citizens. The county infection rates have bumped up to 5.4%, enough to place Clatsop county back in the state high-risk category for COVID 19 infection.
In a news release, the college states the latest case there is a person who brought it in from outside the campus. Information from the individual, along with the timing of symptoms and the positive test indicates that the exposure likely occurred within the last week while off-campus and this individual had not been on campus since April 9th. With CCC’s classes and services operating remotely and campus access closed, there is no need for the college to request quarantine by any other members
Astoria looks at denser housing By Edward Stratton, The Daily Astorian, Ore.
Published: February 21, 2021, 1:19pm
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The Astoria City Council and the Planning Commission appear supportive of a suite of measures from a countywide housing study to encourage denser and more affordable housing, with several caveats to preserve livability and historic character.
The council and commission met Thursday to find commonality on which policy and development code strategies in the 2019 housing study to pursue. The meeting came shortly after the two boards approved new state-mandated development code amendments to expand the use of accessory dwelling units for increased density.
Astoria, at around 9,700 people with several large apartment complexes in the works, is also nudging up against state requirements for cities of at least 10,000 to add more middle housing everything between single-family homes and mid- or high-rise apartment buildings.
Astoriaâs 3,700-acre Bear Creek watershed is a primary source of drinking water and revenue from both logging and sequestering carbon. But it needs a lot of maintenance.
A 70-acre swath of young forest over the hill from the Bear Creek Reservoir needs to be thinned to promote a healthy, diverse forest. A failing culvert on Cedar Creek just upstream of the reservoir needs to be removed and replaced with a bridge to return the stream to its natural state.
Astoria is investing in forest stewardship projects in areas like the Bear Creek watershed. Hailey Hoffman/The Astorian
The city is deciding how to invest $837,500 it netted from a November sale of carbon sequestration credits into forest stewardship and maintenance projects over the coming years, while buffering capital improvement funds against poor logging years.