City of Yachats - Page 31

Ocean View Drive through Yachats got much of its makeover Thursday. Crews from Road & Driveway of Newport paved two long sections of the road east and north of Yachats Start Park – a major step in a years-long process of Lincoln County turning ownership over to the city of Yachats. It took crews just 3½ hours Thursday to

The city of Yachats on Wednesday, Sept. 4, instituted an immediate restriction on water use because of low flow in two creeks that supply the city’s water system. The “Phase 1” rules restricts the watering of lawns, gardens and landscaping to alternate days depending on odd-even house addresses, allows the sale of water only to current customers, prohibits fire

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats City Manager Shannon Beaucaire plans to use a temporary employment agency to hire a part-time person to take care of a backlog of pressing issues – including stepping up code enforcement. Beaucaire outlined her plan after Wednesday night’s City Council meeting where Planning Commission member Mary Ellen O’Shaughnessey expressed her frustration – and indicated it

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com    Yachats city manager Shannon Beaucaire is urging commissions that oversee public facilities to begin quantifying how many visitors use them to help fend off possible challenges to how the city spends lodging taxes. She made the suggestion Wednesday during a presentation on transient lodging taxes to the city Finance Committee. Beaucaire wants the Finance Committee – made

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com    Members of the city’s Public Works and Streets Commission won’t recommend that Yachats quit sponsoring its three-day “Clean Up” event each June. But they expressed surprise Tuesday that what began as a shredding event years ago is now a free-for-all trash-dumping service that cost the city $6,855 this year. “That kind of took my breath away,”