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||| from Fred Klein ||| Main Street, Eastsound If you love and appreciate Eastsound, listen up. If you experience and enjoy the look, the feel, the ambiance of Eastsound’s Main Street as you enter the village…the landscaping, the street trees, the meandering sidewalk as it weaves around the little pockets of on-street parking…if you get
-- from Leith Templin for Eastsound Plan Review Committee -- In response to the many comments about the Prune Alley Street Project, the EPRC would like to clarify some misunderstandings that some community members have expressed in the past week. As Fred Klein explained, the street improvement project has been envisioned for thirty years and
||| from Fred Klein ||| With all due respect to the obviously heartfelt concerns of authors and commenters on this topic, if I may, I would like to take a step back from the issue of street lighting and provide some context to the proposed improvements to Prune Alley. For the past 30 years, the
-- from Chris Bean-Hearne -- The EPRC voted unanimously at their zoom meeting on Thursday to forge ahead with their original plans for the development of Prune Alley despite the numerous complaints and with total disregard of the opinions of so many Orcas Islanders to those plans. One minor sop - they are suggesting slightly
-- from Chris Bean-Hearne -- I took a long look at the recently detailed and lengthy proposed plans published by EPRC for the improvements on Prune Alley. It comes down to this -- the gentrification and tarting-up of a nice, old village street with the final effect (at a cost of $4,500,000) resulting in a
-- from Leith Templin for Eastsound Planning Review Committee -- How does the County “know” that Prune Alley needs to be improved? In 1981 the First Eastsound Subarea Plan (Ord 225-1981) discussed lighting “will probably be desirable to install street lighting” in the future and included a graphic with overhead lighting. When Main Street and
Zoom meeting tomorrow -- by Matthew Gilbert, Orcas Issues reporter At the recent EPRC special meeting, the focus was largely on lighting as it remains a flashpoint of interest to community members concerned over potential impacts to downtown rural character. It’s true that the project has been long in coming with plenty of opportunities for
-- from Eleanor Hoague and Marc Cohen -- Although planning for the Prune Alley improvement project has already moved into its final stages, one important aspect of it has not, in our opinion, received adequate attention: lighting. And this is not just our opinion, as has been made clear by the groundswell of opposition that
-- by Matthew Gilbert, Orcas Issues Reporter -- In what might be the last opportunity for the public to weigh in on the proposed Prune Alley redevelopment project, the EPRC has scheduled a special “virtual” meeting on Thursday, June 25, from 3 – 5pm. It is certainly short notice, and delaying the project is not
Updated -- by Matthew Gilbert, Orcas Issues reporter -- Although the recent release of the Prune Alley Street Improvement Project “conceptual design” took many Orcas Islanders by surprise – and triggered a torrent of negative comments – the project has been on the books since 2003 when, according to Public Works Director Colin Huntemer, “the