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Planning Commission Meeting, June 13 2019 . 7 to 10 PM

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Planning Commission Regular Meeting
June 13, 2019  7:00 - 10:00 PM

AGENDA

 

7:00 PM      CALL TO ORDER

                   Call to Order, Agenda Review, Conflict Disclosure

7:05 PM      PUBLIC COMMENT

                   Accept public comment on off agenda items.

 

7:10  PM     WINSLOW HOTEL (PLN50880 SPR)

                   Review and Recommendation

7:10 – 7:40 PM     Staff Presentation

7:40 – 8:20 PM     Applicant Presentation

8:20 – 9:10 PM     Planning Commission Review

9:10 – 9:50 PM     Public Comment

9:50 – 9:55 PM     Planning Commission Recommendation

9:55 PM      NEW/OLD BUSINESS

10:00 PM    ADJOURN

 

 

Please note doors will open at 6:30 PM.

Campfire at Cannery Cove

 Friends of "John Nelson Park" at Strawberry Cannery Cove shared a day of warmth and song Saturday, Sept. 11, in the scenic cove at the Head-of-Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Is., WA. It was the eve of the scheduled demolition of the historic cove by the City of Bainbridge Island.

Photo Joel Sackett

Reflections on the last days of Cannery Cove

Those reflections are by Judie and Gerald Elfendahl of Friends of Cannery Cove. You can also listen to a short segment on KUOW. LISTEN

John Nelson Park: one more meeting at City Hall on Wednesday August 25 and a park Board meeting on Thursday

From Gerald who keeps the faith and invites us to stand up again for a real park not the shadow of one.

Wednesday night, Aug. 25 at 7:05 PM is a VERY important opportunity at City Council chambers to share your thoughts about the City's plan to excavate and destroy the shore side meadows, cove and parking at Strawberry Cannery Cove Waterfront Park.  Please speak now.  Your voice matters.

About the "discussion" at city hall about John Nelson Park

Jerry Effendahl reports about this "discussion" without any public participation (but silent) allowed: our local democracy at work. All our thanks to the Friends of Cannery Cove for persisting.

How the city of Bainbridge is afraid of the people about Strawberry Park

They don't even dare announce clearly they are going to talk about it. They cover it up with an anonymous wording and if you don't click on the spreadsheet you cannot guess what it is about.

Progress report on shoreline improvement project Next steps? - 15 min

Let us recall that last time they expelled someone who wanted to protest.

A disgusting story. Reading the pdf presentation where there is absolutely no mention of all the public dissent is 1984style. The story is rewritten to please the bureaucratic masters. Disgusting.

Sign the petition to save the live-aboards

 I just found out about this petition to help folks like Dave Ullin stay in the harbor. Here is the link to the petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/lcp2010/petition.html


Here is the link to the blog about the liveaboards:

http://liveaboardpreservationsociety.blogspot.com/

If you could pass this info about the petition to any who you feel might
support the live-aboard cause, it would be appreciated.

A strong assessment of our city's situation

As presented by Bob Scales in the Bainbridge Postscript blog.

A message/invitation from Rod Stevens

City Government: How Can We Make It Work Better?

The American Legion has scheduled a town meeting, and you are the invited speaker!  No special guests, just you, your fellow citizens and a great moderator!  Come express your feeling about city government, and what we need to do next. 

Tuesday, May 6, 7-9 p.m.
American Legion Hall (near the Bucklin Hill fire station.)

Who is responsible for the disastrous "pruning" of the trees in the parking at the ferry terminal?

Reading the February 20 issue of the Bainbridge Review we don't learn what firm was responsible for this job. A manager for Diamond Parking does not provide any specific information nor apologize for anything wrong. The City acquiesces by saying nothing inherently wrong (illegal) was done and we get the usual argument about private property. Diamond Parking is a big corporation, they claim to be the biggest private parking company in the world (and I bet they are). It is not clear that they were in charge of this "pruning" as they could only be in charge of operating the parking while the property is owned by somebody else. This somebody else could be an entity called Winslow Marine LLC but the property tax map does not provide any clue about who they are, but for the address of an accounting firm in Bellevue. I think the people deemed "responsible" should publicly say so and offer a compensation to our community or explain to us why all is well. What type of compensation? They could plant more/new trees in this parking lot and/or provide money for trees to be planted. They should come up with internal guidelines to avoid such bad practices in the future.

Congratulations to Kim and Bill

They won the two contested seats for City Council. I hope they'll defend the trees, more parks downtown, no round about that is absolutely not needed (99% of the time as the public works people acknowledge), no useless gigantic underground garage (absolutely not needed as well contrary to what consultants/lobbyists try to have us believe). I wish Kim and Bill start blogs to keep us informed and incite other counselors to do likewise. Best wishes to all members of the Council.

City Meetings Go Audio But

City meetings are now recorded but accessing them is a very complicated and not user friendly story. They have kept each audio on the page related to the meeting that is recorded instead of having one index page where all the audios are listed and you can very quickly and easily select the one(s) you want ot listen to. Of course the best way is to provide an automatic subscription via email (feedblitz) and an rss. Until this is (easily) done, getting to the recording you care for looks very much like a labyrinth... Although the intent is laudable, this is NOT the right way to do it :)

The community forestry commission wants to hear from you

The Community Forestry Commission (pdf) is holding an open house session on Tuesday September 12 from 7 to 9 PM. I am not sure there is much to gain but if a few good people wish to attend. Maybe you can also email your suggestions? So many of our previous suggestions have been totally ignored it's hard to persist but what else is there to do? All my best wishes to the people who want to attend. If someone wants to take a digital mp3 recorder contact me and I'll lend you one.

Nezam's answers

Hello Philippe.  Nice to hear from you again.

I opted for a web site without a blog primarily due to my own time constraints.  Also I do not have the support needed to create and maintain a blog.  As you know, I am not accepting financial contributions to my campaign.  This meant I had to go with a simple web site that was rich in content.  I am not sure if you are offering to help with creating and maintaining a blog but, if you are, I am game.

Questions for Darlene

Hello Darlene!
I just visited your very traditional website, :)
It is a nice initiative but it does not allow visitors to ask you questions for everybody to see and post comments.
In my opinion it is with this type of interactive communication that one can see what candidates think and stand for.

Questions for Nezam

Hello Nezam!
I just visited your very traditional website, :)
It is a nice initiative but it does not allow visitors to ask you questions for everybody to see and post comments.
In my opinion it is with this type of interactive communication that one can see what candidates think and stand for.

The blog solution for local media and civic life

The bad news is I have been frustrated with our local media (The Bainbridge Review, the Kitsap Sun, the Bainbridge Islander, BIB) for quite a while. I think the City website is abysmal and our elected officials totally fail in  responding to our needs to be informed about what's happening to our community under their watch.

On behalf of the trees Oct 8 2003

Memory lane: it was two years ago. On Thursday evening, October 8 2003 Philippe Boucher addressed the Planning Commission.
Here are his notes.
They do not correspond to what he actually said word by word but that's what he meant.

A sad and pathetic reading

I have read the draft of the Bainbridge Island Community Forest Management Plan that is now "available" for our review. I write "available" because this text is  not easily readable in the format  sent via email  and while a  posting in a blog format would make comments very easy there is nothing of the sort with this document that is not posted on the small page devoted to the "community forestry commission" within the abysmal website of the city of Bainbridge.
PS: in fact the draft is posted on the page -my mistake- but I still consider the site abysmal :)
One more precision: I think Marja Preston (the planner attending to the Commission) has done as fine a job as she could considering the lack of political strength and courage of the Commission members and the opposition of the Head of the planning department to any serious protection of our trees. None of the members of the Council nor the Mayor nor any other member of a commission that should have intervened (like the Planning Commission), nor any local enviroment group has done anything significant to speak up for our trees and ask for their preservation and for precisions about the creation of new parks downtown. When I offered to speak up within a project submitted to the Arts Council it was turned down. It is also my fault that I was unable to rally anybody around a cause I think is so important. A friend of the trees preaching in vain in the desert. Also in vain are the numerous letters to the editor published at regular intervals by the Review to make it look like some serious consideration is given to this issue. Of course it is exactly the opposite. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose  :(

Public Disclosure Commission

I have read the letter published in the Review and the Islander about the fact that Will Peddy for Mayor was financed -up to now- essentially by contractors. I was curious to know a little more so I went to the site of the public disclosure commission and spent a few minutes figuring out how to get the info. I wish I could give you the direct link to the list but the system does not allow to keep it.

Here is the link to the search: click show choices, look for the name of the candidate you are interested in, select it then click Send Query on the bottom, then on the next form click the name on the left side. Sort of easy but tedious.
This list is not posted on the site of the Peddy's campaign. It would be easier if each candidate was making available the information filed with the PDC. If the candidate has no site, Voice of Bainbridge offers to host the info.