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||| FROM DAILY MAIL ||| A unique paint-like coating has been developed that could revolutionise street lighting across the globe. UK-based company Nevana Designs has developed a light-responsive formula called STARPATH that makes ordinary pathways glow in the dark by absorbing UV rays during the day. The coating, which can be applied to any solid surface including tarmac and
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS ||| Public Works looks to push pause on construction and delay construction-related community impacts until Spring of 2022. Plans for a single continuous construction effort remain unchanged from Main Street through North Beach Road. Staff will utilize this time to continue improving efforts that minimize impacts and costs
||| FROM JESSE DOUGLAS SEITZ for SAN JUAN COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS ||| Construction Start Date T.B.D. Spring 2021 OPALCO Joint Utility Relocation Efforts The project includes pedestrian and accessibility improvements, transportation infrastructure, storm drain infrastructure, water quality improvements, landscaping, lighting, and consideration for other streetscape amenities. Project Plans have been finalized by the
||| FROM JESSE DOUGLAS SEITZ, PROJECT MANAGER ||| What to expect during construction: Traffic control, including lane and entire block closures, detours, flaggers and limited access. The road will be pulverized with heavy machinery in multiple phases. Trenching to remove and replace the entire stormwater conveyance system including manholes, catch basins and stormwater treatment facilities.
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS ||| The rumors are true, the Prune Alley Street Improvements project is planned for construction this year! But not just one block, the entire project, from Main Street through the School and North Beach Road intersection! County Council met on Tuesday 01/12/2021 and made the recommendation for Public
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, theORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| Toward the end of a presentation on approving the county’s Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) at Tuesday’s weekly County Council meeting, County Manager Mike Thomas addressed new developments affecting the plan to redevelop Prune Alley. It has to do with the main sewer line that runs the length of
||| FROM FRED KLEIN ||| OPEN LETTER TO COUNCIL: September 29, 2020 To: San Juan County Council, Councilmen Hughes, Stephens, and Watson Gentlemen, Once again I want to thank you for discussing Prune Alley at your meeting on September 15th. You have the power to redirect this project from being an unwanted deviation from the
||| FROM FRED KLEIN ||| Among the first consequences of the implementation of Phase One of the present plan for the improvements on Prune Alley will be the cutting down of the five trees which are located between the two entry ways to Island Market. These five trees will be cut down during Phase
||| FROM MARC COHEN ||| Rick Hughes has a conflict of interest problem with regard to the proposed "Prune Alley improvements." It literally jumps off the pages of The Orcasonian. When Fred Klein attributed the elaborate street intersections to our "high priced Seattle consultants" (Orcasonian, 8/1/20), Rick set the record straight: those intersections were his
||| BY MINOR LILE & MATTHEW GILBERT, ORCASONIAN REPORTERS ||| Prompted by an open letter from former EPRC member and local architect Fred Klein, the County Council raised some last-minute questions regarding Prune Alley’s extensive redevelopment plan at its September 15 meeting. Klein’s eleventh-hour letter contends that the finalized plan does not sufficiently reflect the