Oceanfront Hotel Addition Planned

Nestucca Ridge Development wants to expand its Pacific City hotel with an oceanfront addition on a commercially-zoned dune that overlooks Haystack Rock, a state landmark. If, however, someone wants to purchase the property to preserve it, the company is willing to listen to a fair market offer.

The property, zoned commercial for 30 years, sits across the street from the existing hotel, on the oceanside of a lot Nestucca Ridge owners Mary Jones and Jeff Schons definately plan to develop as phase two of their hotel. Phase two, a 42-room addition to the hotel across the street, was approved at the time the existing hotel was approved in the mid 1990s.

This June, however, Jones and Schons applied to amend their phase two permit. The proposal is to shrink the number of rooms in phase two to 23 rooms and add a pool and meeting room instead, as well as add 30-rooms on the dune itself as a third phase.