Betsy Peabody Sent - City of Bainbridge Island

From: Chris Van Dyk
Sent: Thu 8/19/2010 12:00 AM
To: ‘Betsy Peabody’; Council
Cc: ‘Wini Jones’; ‘Val Tollefson’; Tami Allen; ‘Stephen Streufert’; ‘Paul Ziakin’; ‘Kevin Dwyer’; ‘John Doerschuk’;
‘John Demeyer’; ‘Jim Reilly’; ‘Janet Knox’; ‘Grant Dull’; ‘Eric Turloff’; ‘Deb Rudnick’; ‘Cindy
Robinson’; ‘Debbi Lester’
Subject: RE: WSF maintenance yard
Concur. I was there. The logic for this is compelling.
The sense of the group was, once obtained, there will be ample opportunity to figure out how to develop the
land, and if it cannot be used economically for active use, a more passive limited use is still good, and even a
passive park use beats a ferry maintenance worker parking lot on waterfront property by a long shot.
Betsy made the point, also, at the meeting, that a good portion of the two million, if we took it, would likely be
spent figuring out to what better use it could be put...
“..get the land..” has always been good advice, and certainly is so here, now.
Chris Van Dyk
Principal Owner,
Bainbridge Media Group, Inc.