One of the goals of the Transportation Summit was to successfully implement a green community event. Planners asked Helen Venada, Waste Reduction Coordinator for the County, to advise them on waste stream issues and following the event she offered the following “Green Report Card”:
Affordable housing and public facilities were the major concerns of the Eastsound Planning Review Committee meeting on Oct. 2. The Eastsound swale and drainage basins, as well as parking and undeveloped county properties in Eastsound were also discussed.
The San Juan County Council on Sept. 23 approved a request by the planning department which will allow – at least temporarily – the unified development code to be modified more than once a year.
At 1:45 p.m. Sept. 30, only 45 minutes after bidding began, the gavel came down and Rosario Resort & Spa was sold at auction for $5.45 million, plus the buyers’ fee.
The County Council met on Orcas Island Monday, Sept. 29, and heard at length both from applicants for a public right-of-way franchise that would start the process of authorizing a 3.5-mile water pipeline from a well in Crow Valley, and from opponents of that application. NOTE: the Council will meet to deliberate the issue on Monday, Oct. 20 at the Eastsound Fire Hall at 1 p.m.
Recent burglaries and break-ins on Orcas Island were the subject of the Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce “Business Essentials” meeting on Oct. 2.
October 6, 2009 10 a.m. A computer problem in the County Auditor’s office has halted the issuance of standard motor…
Break-ins run in cycles, Vierthaler says.
First step in pipeline carrying water from Crow Valley well to Dolphin Bay Road properties brought before council at public hearing.
Meeting at 7 p.m. at the Senior Center
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Marketing director Christopher Peacock said Rosario Resort & Spa was purchased by an Anacortes-based, family-owned investment and development group with deep roots in the San Juans. The group is slated to take over the resort on or around Oct. 30. `
Amy Windrope of the San Juan Initiative, announced on Thursday, Oct. 2, that the meetings planned at Orcas Landing at noon and at West Sound Thursday evening have been cancelled.
