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County appraisers will be visiting residential properties in Yachats soon

June 10, 2025

YACHATS – For the first time in 12 years, some 3,000 properties in the city of Yachats will soon be getting a visit from Lincoln County appraisers. Physical reappraisals are conducted on a 10- to 12-year rotation to update county assessment records, said county assessor Joe Davidson. This year’s appraisals in Yachats will be of residential property and vacant residential

Will Yachats property owners accept a $10 monthly fee for streets? Council is about to find out

May 29, 2025

By QUINTON SMITH/Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS – Will 950 property owners in Yachats go along with a proposal that they pay an extra $10 a month to the city in order to get streets repaired or paved more regularly? We will see soon. After getting a recommendation from the Public Works & Streets Commission, talking about it in March and

25-year plan for Yachats Commons/city center area takes shape, now heads to commission and council

May 26, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS – Designing a vision of what a Yachats civic campus might look like 25 years into the future is not easy but after months of synthesizing community comments and ideas there’s a draft of a final plan. “It was challenging, I’ll be honest,” said principal designer Shelby Scharen before the start of a May

Yachats’ proposed 2025-26 budget rising 14 percent as multiple long-planned city projects get under way

May 22, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/Lincoln Chronicle YACHATS – If the city of Yachats’ proposed 2025-26 budget were a person they would be wearing a hard hat and boots and working from dawn to dusk on a laundry list of capital improvement projects. The nearly $8.86 million spending proposal reflects the city’s movement on a litany of long-term plans and is $1.1

County’s transfer of two Yachats streets may be finished this month

April 3, 2025

Maybe it just might happen. Maybe. On Wednesday, Lincoln County commissioners – after a public hearing that lasted no more than two minutes – asked its attorney to bring an order to its April 16 meeting to officially transfer portions of Marine Drive and Ocean View Drive to the city of Yachats. It’s a process that’s been talked about

Is a $10 monthly fee for street repairs a good idea? City of Yachats says it will go slow on the suggestion

March 20, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Over the next couple of months the city of Yachats will evaluate whether to tack on a $10 fee to monthly water bills to help pay for street repairs. The idea was floated by the public works department during the February meeting of the Public Works & Streets Commission and mentioned in the city

Crews remove 90-year-old bronze bell from atop Little Log Church in most visible act of $370,000 renovation

March 20, 2025

By YachatsNews YACHATS – It was a delicate procedure for a construction crew – how to access and then lift a corroding, 90-year-old bronze bell Thursday from the roof of the Little Log Church Museum in a driving rain and windstorm without the whole thing crashing down on the street below. But workers from Top to Bottom Construction of

How does Yachats plan for its future Commons area? Carefully — and with a lot of community comments

March 13, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – It’s no easy task to distill hundreds of opinions into one visionary master plan for the Yachats Commons area, nearby public buildings and open space that will extend 25 years into the future. But after months of community input and an untold number of dulled drafting pencils and worn erasers, the team at Ashland-based

City of Yachats exploring eight-acre site for big, new water reservoir and workforce housing development

March 11, 2025

By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – When it comes to planning for the future of Yachats two issues always rise to the top – water sustainability and affordable housing. A project that could combine both objectives is currently in the works. But city officials caution there are a lot of unknowns as they assess a wooded property for its potential

Yachats council approves seven focus areas for 2025 tied to goals for itself, city manager and staff

February 20, 2025

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The Yachats city council has adopted seven focus areas and goals to guide work for itself and city staff during 2025 and plans quarterly meetings to check in to see how they’re doing. The focus area and goals are: Infrastructure: Achieve water sustainability; Livability: Provide safe access to and use of city infrastructure, parks

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County appraisers will be visiting residential properties in Yachats soon

Will Yachats property owners accept a $10 monthly fee for streets? Council is about to find out

25-year plan for Yachats Commons/city center area takes shape, now heads to commission and council

Yachats’ proposed 2025-26 budget rising 14 percent as multiple long-planned city projects get under way

County’s transfer of two Yachats streets may be finished this month

Is a $10 monthly fee for street repairs a good idea? City of Yachats says it will go slow on the suggestion

Crews remove 90-year-old bronze bell from atop Little Log Church in most visible act of $370,000 renovation

How does Yachats plan for its future Commons area? Carefully — and with a lot of community comments

City of Yachats exploring eight-acre site for big, new water reservoir and workforce housing development

Yachats council approves seven focus areas for 2025 tied to goals for itself, city manager and staff

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