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	<title>Bainbridge Shoreline Homeowners &#187; Make Your Voice Heard</title>
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		<title>Island historians appeal Strawberry Park &#8220;nonsignificance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/island-historians-appeal-strawberry-park-nonsignificance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commentary by Gerald Elfendahl&#8230; 
Dear Friends of Cannery Cove Park,
Thanks to your support and encouragement, we waded in! WE FILED AN APPEAL of the City&#8217;s Declaration of Non-Significance (DNS) for THE City&#8217;s planned excavation of our waterfront and history! The call it  Strawberry Plant Park.  We like to call it &#8220;Cannery Cove.&#8221; A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1893&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>House Bill 1653</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/house-bill-1653/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an excellent letter sent by one of our shoreline neighbors regarding HB 1653 now pending in the legislature. 
Rep. Christine Rolfes,
Thank you for the courtesy of a reply and for looking into this.  I had not previously seen the information statement from DOE, I had only read the actual text of their proposal. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1419&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving shoreline history at Strawberry Plant Park.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/preserving-shoreline-history-at-strawberry-plant-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Choices by Gerald Elfendahl
(Note: Bainbridge Shoreline Homeowners doesn&#8217;t take a position on this issue, but we feel it is important for everyone to know about the planning process so they can participate as they see fit.) 
February 24, 2009, a joint special meeting of City Council, Mayor and Park Directors allowed only brief comment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1453&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Council &amp; Parks Board vote to destroy island history?</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/vote-to-destroy-bainbridge-island-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Feb 24, 2009, the Bainbridge Island City Council will have a joint meeting with Bainbridge Island Metro Parks and Recreation District, 6 pm at Strawberry Hill Center. On the agenda (here) is an item called, &#8220;City Council and Park Board select the preferred option for Strawberry Park Update.&#8221; Island historian Gerald Elfendahl fears they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1363&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New law aims to wipe out balance in shoreline regulations.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/new-law-to-wipe-out-balance-in-shoreline-regulations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Bill 1653 (and its companion Senate Bill 5726) may seem like routine housekeeping to our legislators, but its effect may be to wipe out the balance between environmental protection and property rights inherent in the Shoreline Management Act (SMA).  
With hundreds of bills totaling thousands of pages, it us unlikely that anyone but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1343&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local governments gear up for shoreline planning.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/local-governments-gear-up-for-shoreline-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an article by Christopher Dunagan, Kitsap Sun, Saturday, Feb 14&#8230;
Shorelines planning, one of the most contentious issues for local governments in the Puget Sound region, will likely embroil Kitsap County and its four cities later this year. Environmental groups, as well as property-rights advocates, are preparing to argue about the kind of protective regulations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1330&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New law to integrate shoreline and critical area regulations.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/integrate-shoreline-and-critical-areas-regulations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the Washington state supreme court decision in the  Anacortes case last July, the departments of ecology (DOE) and community, trade and economic development (CTED) are requesting legislation to clarify how local governments are to regulate shoreline areas. 
A joint release by the two agencies explains the situation from their perspective and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1166&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eagle Harbor comments due by 2/23.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/eagle-harbor-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We  received an email from the city dated February 3, 2009 2:04:24 PM PST. It said&#8230; &#8220;The Department of Ecology will accept written comments on the proposed amendment to the City of Bainbridge Island Shoreline Master Program to provide regulations for the establishment and operation of an open water marina in the Middle Harbor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1160&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are your legislators doing for you?</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/what-are-your-legislators-doing-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click to find out&#8230; 
Christine Rolfes, (D-Bainbridge Island), State Representative
Sherry Appleton, (D-Poulsbo), State Representative
Phil Rockefeller, (D-Kitsap County), State Senator
Also of interest&#8230; 
Jan Angel, (R-Kitsap District 26), State Representative
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		<title>COBI Council Didn&#8217;t Invent Creative Financing</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/cobi-council-didnt-invent-creative-financing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California cities and counties have been designing evermore creative ways to borrow money for civic projects. And now, many find themselves on the brink of bankruptcy. 
If you had to get a vote on everything, it would take a lot of time and there would be no guarantee that the voters would approve the debt,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1022&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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