Yachats City Council changes meeting schedule, again

October 8, 2019

You may want to write this down to keep it straight — the Yachats City Council has changed its meeting schedule, again. The council has been meeting at 9:30 a.m. the first Wednesday of the month and 6 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month. It scheduled one night meeting a month more than two years ago to make it

Yachats council votes 3-2 to proceed with remodeling bids for 501 Building

October 8, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council is moving ahead with plans to get drawings and bids to remodel the 501 Building for city offices, despite the sudden misgivings of two council members contending it needs still more study. A pro-forma request last week by City Manager Shannon Beaucaire to proceed with getting basic architectural and engineering specifications and

City will explore idea of using two empty lots for workforce housing

October 7, 2019

The two small residential building lots along Aqua Vista Loop and Marine Drive have been sitting empty for decades. The lots are owned by Lincoln County, which acquired them years ago as part of the legal settlement that re-established the 804 Trail through Yachats. The lots contain a 10-foot easement to allow the trail to cut directly north from

Yachats council votes unanimously to keep 125-license limit on vacation rentals

October 3, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to continue a controversial 125-license limit on vacation rentals in the city, its first major step to update its regulations governing use of houses for short-term stays. Yachats remains one of two Oregon cities putting a specific limit on the number of licensed rentals, although cities across the United

Central Lincoln’s planned electrical outage Thursday will not affect downtown Yachats

October 3, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Central Lincoln Peoples Utility District will cut power to customers from the south edge of Yachats to Carl Washburne State Park for up to 5½ hours Thursday, Oct. 10 – but it will not affect downtown Yachats businesses or City Hall. The outage will affect 470 residences on Bayview Terrace, in the Quiet Water and Koho

Rainy September takes some pressure off water restrictions in Yachats

October 1, 2019

Yes, it was an unusually wet September. And, as luck would have it, as soon as the city of Yachats declared “Phase One” water restrictions the city recorded 3.5 inches of rain in September to unofficially end any real worries about watering outside plants or washing cars. September’s rainfall total was the third highest in the last 10 years,

Yachats council to vote Wednesday on 125-license vacation rental cap

September 26, 2019

The Yachats City Council will vote Wednesday morning whether to keep the city’s cap on the number of vacation rental licenses at 125. The vote comes before consideration of other much-discussed vacation rental regulations because the cap expires Oct. 14 and needed to be approved to stay in effect, said Mayor John Moore. The other potential changes in rental regulations

Manager, mayor hope additional Yachats code enforcement help will calm concerns over program

September 19, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats city manager and mayor hope a newly hired part-time contractor to concentrate on code enforcement will help calm some discontent with the program’s direction. City Manager Shannon Beaucaire told the City Council on Wednesday night that Matt Phillips is quickly learning enforcement duties and will soon be reaching out to businesses and residents and tackling

After uproar, Yachats council plans to discuss code enforcement policy Wednesday night

September 12, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council will discuss the city’s code enforcement program at its Wednesday, Sept. 18 meeting. The topic was put on the 6 p.m. agenda after councilors Leslie Vaaler and James Kerti expressed frustration during last week’s council meeting with the lack of information on the status of the current program, program philosophies and efforts

Yachats council finishes most of its work on details of revised vacation rental regulations

September 5, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Except for one issue, The Yachats City Council has finished wrestling with changes to its 2-year-old vacation rental regulations – keeping a 125-license limit, not allowing license transfers and more than doubling fees for renewing licenses. The council reached consensus on five more issues from an 12-item list during its workshop session Wednesday. Six issues were