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Clatsop County begins strategic‑planning series, agrees to probe Arch Cape incorporation feasibility
Summary
County commissioners opened an annual strategic‑planning review and discussed commissioning a roughly $100,000 feasibility study to test whether Arch Cape could incorporate as a city; managers will return with a funding recommendation and ask the Arch Cape community for a financial contribution.
Clatsop County commissioners used a January work session to begin their annual strategic‑planning review, and spent the bulk of the discussion on an Arch Cape incorporation feasibility study that county staff say could cost roughly $100,000.
The study would be a two‑phase effort: a phase 1 feasibility analysis — the contract being negotiated by the Arch Cape community club with consultant Eco Northwest — to identify boundaries, service levels and the financial inputs for a proposed city; and a smaller phase 2 “statement of economic feasibility” if the community chooses to move toward a ballot referral. County staff said phase 1 was estimated at “just over a hundred thousand dollars” and phase 2 at roughly $13,000.
County Manager (staff) told…
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