More Cars. No parking. Less View. Read this!

 More Cars.  No parking.  Less View.  Read this!

3,500 sq feet restaurant.  108 chairs, 58 boat slips, ? many employees, only 34 off street parking spaces.
Council members Kadzik, Payne, Perrow, Ekberg and Arbenz voted to get rid of  parking spaces and/or allow restaurants up to 3,500 sq feet to block your view of the harbor. 

The only reason for less parking and less view is because of their votes!

            In 2014 the majority of Millville residents said please keep commercial restaurants in the commercial zone. If restaurants were to be in their Millville Waterfront neighborhood, the restaurants needed to provide parking for their customers and to have stated closing hours.

            In December 2014 the quorum majority of the Planning Commission voted NOT to recommend these restaurant changes to this historic Millville waterfront neighborhood.   

The council did not like the Planning commissions’ NO vote

and 

ordered them to take a re-vote. 

           The only way a re-vote could happen would be for Planning Commissioner Rick Gagliano to ask for a re-vote.  No surprise here.  The councils’ ordered re vote produced a vote of “yes” recommendation for these changes in this historic waterfront neighborhood.

            Currently there are plans for restaurant row with Brix moving to Ship to Shore and a pizza parlor next door to Suzanne’s.   

            Richard Shaw and his architect have presented  preliminary plans for a restaurant to be put in the parking lot of Richard Shaw's Pleasure Craft Marina.  The architect hired to produce plans for this restaurant is Ratcliff Gagliano Architecture.

            In addition Rick Gagliano sits on the Design Review Board that has the authority to rule on the design submitted by Ratcliff Gagliano. 

            Earlier this year secret meetings were held to discuss developing downtown Gig Harbor. No recordings were made.  Rick Gagliano took hand written notes and will present to the rest of the Planning Commission his personal interpretations of what interviewees might have said about developing downtown Gig Harbor. These meetings were secret, no recordings and the public was barred from attending.   No accountability. 

Feeling uneasy about any 1 person wearing so many hats?  C4PGH is.

 

            As a member of the Planning Commission and Design Review Board, Rick Gagliano was appointed by your Gig Harbor Mayor and approved by your city council.

            A second Planning Commissioner’s firm was hired to help develop yet another project in Gig Harbor, the Cushman Trail Cottages. 

            ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. That is what most of you are saying.

Yes, you can do something about it!

And, we will. 

  These are interesting days coming up.  The council, developers are  aware citizens will be petitioning to give GH the powers of Initiative and Referendum. 
      When C4PGH makes a statement, when developers make statements, when the city makes statements always ask for references to back up those statements.  
   Thank you,
    Team at Citizens for the Preservation of Gig Harbor

 

Mayor and Council email addresses: 

guernseyj@cityofgigharbor.net

 paynet@cityofgigharbor.net

 kadzikp@cityofgigharbor.net

 perrowm@cityofgigharbor.net

 malichk@cityofgigharbor.net

 EkbergS@cityofgigharbor.net

 lovrovichr@cityofgigharbor.net

 arbenzc@cityofgigharbor.net

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