To the editor:
What is wrong with the Lincoln County planners who oppose the concept of providing safe and inexpensive housing options in a remote location for people who are trying to make a living in the hospitality industry in Yachats?
The Drift Inn and its associated properties and businesses are an essential component of the lifeblood of Yachats.
For the county to deny the owners the necessary permits to provide sensible and multi-user housing options for willing employees is a true indication that these regulators and policy makers may as well roll up the newly installed sidewalks and turn out the lights on the entire community.
I believe it is so wrongheaded, shortsighted and downright ignorant.
Are the people who oppose the Hetzler/Smith request to create sensible and affordable housing options for workers who keep the tourist industry in Yachats thriving and viral related to the people who want to spend $250,000 on a tourist trolley that will have no tourists because they decided that affordable housing for the hospitality workforce is just not that important?
— Howard Cusack/Florence
Their heart is in the right place, and I know them to be honorable people trying to supply a crucial need. I hope there will be a flexible positive outcome.