from Gulliver Rankin Chair EPRC
Wednesday October 16, 4 — 7 p.m., Senior Center
Aerial views of Eastsound in 2003 (courtesy of Public Works) and 1976 (courtesy of Pat Pomeroy).
If you want your voice heard, like maps and knowing what is planned for Eastsound, come talk with EPRC board members and County Staff about:
- How you want Eastsound to look
- Prune Alley Streetscape and sidewalks (Construction in 2014)
- Stormwater work on A Street (Starting this fall)
- Tell us if you want to allow kiosks and food trucks
- Update to the Sub Area Plan, including proposed changes to what is allowed in each land use district. (For a draft copy please email Colin Maycock)
Be a part of the public process.
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Zoning districts around the country are evaluating traditional restrictions of use and architecture in order to allow public and private installations of renewable resource collectors–especially solar and small-wind. I hope Eastsound village will be among them!
I would like to see EPRC mandate an Architectural Review Committee to oversee not only the requirements for new construction (“design review”), but also to advise on changes made to “historic; structures.”: razing, renovations, additions, remodeling. Our Orcas structures, not just in Eastsound are at the point where, if not viewed with a historic perspective, they may disappear or become unrecognizable with no connection to the past.
A good reference to the subject is https://www.georgiashpo.org/faq_what_makes_a_property_historic. Well, o.k, it’s a Georgia site, but is relevant.