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Yachats council votes to allow unlimited vacation rentals in commercial and motel zones, lowers cap in residential areas

November 26, 2019

The Yachats City Council has made a dramatic change in the city’s vacation rental ordinance, deciding to allow an unlimited number of rentals in areas of the town zoned for businesses and motels. In doing so, however, the council last week dropped the cap on the number of licenses from 125 citywide to 100 in areas zoned for single-

City halts Yachats Library expansion, seeks to leverage new $150,000 donation

October 17, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Library Commission wants to step back from an immediate expansion of the city library after the pledge of a $150,000 donation by longtime resident Marguerite Petersen. On Wednesday, the City Council agreed, barely. After months of study and preparing plans for the expansion, the commission and council were prepared to go ahead with a

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 to resume vacation rental discussion on Wednesday

August 29, 2019

The Yachats City Council will resume its discussion – nearly it’s last – on how or if to revise portions of its vacation rental ordinance when it meets Wednesday, Sept. 4. The workshop session – for council discussion and not public comment – is at 9:30 a.m. in the council chambers of the Yachats Commons. A public comment period

Yachats council discusses vacation rentals, keeping cap but looking more favorably on transfers

June 7, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council took its second step Wednesday in a months-long process of examining its vacation rental regulations, possibly warming up to ideas on ways to allow more licenses and transfer them. A two-year pilot program that caps the number of vacation rental licenses at 125 and regulates their use ends Sept. 30. The council is

Yachats council discusses issues with county commissioners

March 21, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council spent an hour Wednesday night meeting with the three Lincoln County commissioners, getting the county’s view — and asking a few questions — on a laundry list of issues. The meeting was a yearly visit by the Newport-based commission to visit city councils in all the county’s incorporated areas. While commissioners and county

Yachats council backs off tax increase, will appoint study committee

March 7, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council on Wednesday tabled it’s proposal to increase the city’s lodging tax, instead planning to form a committee of businesses and community members to determine goals for the $1 million it collects annually. The council had proposed raising its tax by from 9 percent to 10 percent. Coupled with the state’s 1.8 percent lodging

Yachats looks to raise its lodging tax to 10 percent

January 25, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council is proposing to tack a percentage point onto the city’s lodging tax to capture more money from increased tourism to help pay for at least three projects and bolster the city’s general fund. The city’s lodging tax would rise to 10 percent from 9 percent. Together with another 1.75 percent levied by the

City Council works through long agenda Wednesday night

January 17, 2019

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The fine details of how even a small city is governed and operates were on full display Wednesday night during the second Yachats City Council meeting of the month. In a meeting that fell just short of three hours, the council waded through five reports and a housing presentation from Lincoln County, adopted changes to the city’s

Yachats City Council gets makeover with three new members

January 3, 2019

A new mayor and two Yachats City Council members were sworn into office Wednesday, creating a new majority and possibly heading the group in a different direction. John Moore, a retired banker who also ran for mayor in 2016, succeeds Gerald Stanley, who did not run for re-election. The two new council members are James Kerti, a web developer and