The city council Wednesday unanimously approved a lighting ordinance that it hopes will do a better job of separating light and darkness, and save people money at the same time.
“This is a win-win situation,” said council member Debbie Vancil, the ordinance’s chief proponent. “Lights that are in compliance won’t cost more than their inefficient counterparts, and will be less expensive to operate.”
Shallow water met deep pockets, and the city bought itself a park.
The Bainbridge Island City Council Wednesday approved purchase of a half-acre property at the south end of Rockaway Beach Road, the first land to be acquired with $8 million in voter-approved open-space bond money.
While council members blanched at the appraisal price of $585,000, all agreed that the property was too unique to pass up.
With little debate, the city council voted unanimously Wednesday to extend the existing moratorium on new docks, piers or bulkheads for another six months.
The principal concern is to finish the ongoing assessment of near-shore resources, council member Christine Nasser Rolfes said.
The school year will see new and tougher enforcement of speeds around campuses.
Changes approved by the city council Wednesday bring uniformity to island school zones, restricting motorists to 20 mph throughout the weekday – whether children are “present” or not.
The eyesight might be dimming, and the steps may have lost a little of their spring.
But when the World War II veterans saluted the flag at the Fort Ward Parade Grounds Saturday, they stood as tall as when they defended the nation’s freedom 60 years ago.
The Bainbridge Island City Council will be asked tonight to extend a moratorium on docks, piers and bulkheads, while the planning staff completes its review of the city’s shoreline regulations.
And it won’t be the last such request. While moratorium extensions must be renewed every six months, the planning staff doesn’t expect to complete its shoreline program until late 2003 or early 2004, so it anticipates seeking at least two additional extensions.
Plans to build a “new neighborhood” on the east end of downtown came closer Thursday night, as the Bainbridge Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the mixed-use Harbor Square project.
The eight-building complex is planned for the 4.3-acre site immediately north of the ferry terminal, between Ferncliff and Cave avenues on the north side of Winslow Way.
The “three R’s” took a back seat to the “three B’s” – building, budget and bond levy – at Tuesday’s school board meeting.
Four construction options for local schools, to be funded by a bond levy slated to go before voters next February, were presented by Mike Currie, district facilities director.
The proposals – developed over the past year by a capital projects steering committee comprised of district representatives and community members – range from $33.6 million to $44.5 million.
When the Bainbridge Island Planning Commission evaluates a project that will have a significant impact on Bainbridge’s future, one of the elements it will have to weigh is Bainbridge’s past.
The Harbor Square project, a mixed-use development planned for the 4.3-acre parcel immediately north of the ferry terminal, will displace the historic Cave House, and preservationist Gerald Elfendahl thinks there must be a better alternative.
Saying he wants to provide an option for health-conscious islanders, fitness professional Jeff Giblin announced Monday that he and his wife Jill will open a full-service fitness center this fall in the Pavilion.
The city council is unlikely to revisit a plan to put four pedestrian “refuge islands” on Madison Avenue, public works committee members said Monday.
The non-decision followed a lengthy meeting with fire officials, who had complained that the islands would hurt the response time of emergency vehicles heading into Winslow.
Having evaluated popular response to alternatives A and B, Washington State Ferries have decided to go with “neither of the above.”
Instead, when the system makes the first significant revision to the Bainbridge-Seattle ferry schedule in 15 years, it will adopt a different alternative – what you might call Option C – to respond to the feedback it got on the two proferred options.
“We have completed a new draft that takes into account what we heard from the public,” WSF spokeswoman Susan Harris said. “We’ve kept the early morning sailing on Sunday, and have a later departure in the evening – 10:55 instead of 10:30.”
Kevin Lawrence’s guilt or innocence was not at issue Tuesday afternoon in
Seattle federal court.
But his credibility was. And it lost badly.
As a result, Lawrence will remain in federal custody pending his October trial date on a 64-count fraud indictment.
“We’re not going to determine Mr. Lawrence’s guilt or innocence today,” said
Magistrate Judge Ricardo Martinez. “One thing I am sure of is that this
court cannot rely on anything Mr. Lawrence said. Mr. Lawrence will be
detained until trial.”