Hoping to improve reserves and finance a visitor center, Cannon Beach may raise the local lodging tax.
Thirty percent of the new revenue — an estimated $140,000 next fiscal year — would go to the city’s general fund. The other 70 percent — about $385,000 — would go toward tourism promotion.
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