City of Bainbridge Island PLUS

Trash all over the ground around the Rite Aid trash compactor. This trash will likely get carried off in the rain into area streams. Please have them clean up their trash. We wouldn’t let citizens throw that much trash around. There is also trash on the ground behind their store.

Unpermitted structure being built on wetlands

Construction crew does not clean up gravel, dirt, sharp objects, and rocks from the road. We've complained a few times to crew and owners but still remains an ongoing issue.

New swim float and boat tie up present just west of Dock Rd.

1. Failed retaining wall on east half of southern property boundary. An engineered/permitted retaining wall is required by code. (more than 2ft from base of footer and supporting surcharge of driveway and garage). Retaining wall has collapsed across boundary line onto neighboring lot to the south.

2. Illicit stormwater connection. There is a direct discharge via corrugated drain pipe leading from the property and emerging in the ditch at the culvert located on the north side of the driveway.

3. Non-commercial radio tower constructed 32inches from side of lot (within 15ft setback) and 20 feet from rear of lot (within 25ft setback). The structure is over-height. Structure was built without a permit. A permit is required for this construction. Concrete foundation is 2ft diameter (3.14sqft) which also exceeds maximum lot coverage on this non-conforming lot.

Non-commercial communications tower (concrete foundation, telescoping steel support, and monopole antenna) has been constructed 3 feet from property boundary.

Structure is not permissible within the set back (15ft from side of lot)

Support structure exceeds 30 feet in height (not permissible anywhere on lot)

Overall antenna height exceeds 50 feet (not permissible anywhere on lot)

Property owner continues to operate a commercial enterprise from a residentially zoned property, in excess of what is allowed under "minor home occupation."

"18.09.030 Use-specific standards provides the guidance under which “minor home occupation” operates and under which the Island Details business operates from 12990 Phelps Rd NE. The code deploys various criteria to restrict the size and nature of any minor home occupation. Any objective review of the facts could only conclude that this business far exceeds what is allowed by the home occupation designation.

I.13.b. The business shall be conducted wholly within a residence or an accessory building and is clearly subordinate to the residence.

Note that the business, Island Details is a large landscaping enterprise. A significant portion of the property north and west of the home has been leveled, covered with gravel and functions as a commercial staging yard. The business is not conducted wholly within a residence or an accessory building.

I.13.c No more than one person who is not a resident of the dwelling shall be employed on site in the home occupation.

Note that employees and contractors of the business gather at the property every morning and evening weekday. Trucks and trailers are loaded and dispatched. Employees and contractors are on the clock and working and therefore the total number of employees on site exceeds what is allowed. Two employees work primarily from the site.

I.13. e. With the exception of home-based teaching, the use shall not generate more than five round trips per day related to the home occupation.

The business generates excessive commercial vehicle traffic often exceeding 40 trips per day. Many of those vehicles are large pickups or other commercial vehicles, sometimes pulling trailers, all louder than a conventional automobile.

I.13. f. No outdoor storage or other exterior indication of the business shall be visible beyond the subject property

Numerous outbuildings, trailers, parked commercial vehicles and equipment are visible from Phelps Rd NE, particularly where Phelps and Yeti Lane intersect.

I.13. g. Commercial vehicles shall not be used for the home occupation or stored on the premises, other than that normally used by the applicant or an employee

The business owns many vehicles all of which are stored on the property when not in weekday use. Many but not all are branded.

I.13. j. No noise, vibration, emissions, dust, odor, heat or glare that would exceed what is normally associated with a dwelling shall be produced by the business beyond the subject property

This commercial enterprise is vehicle and heavy equipment dependent and generates an excessive amount of traffic causing noise, vibration, emissions, dust, odor and glare (associated with headlights). Over the course the past two years the capacity of the property to accommodate commercial vehicle activity has grown by the removal of trees, leveling and the further addition of a gravel surface. The property owner has added lighting on motion sensors to illuminate the staging yard and outbuildings at night resulting in further glare and disruption.

There are way too many boards on this corner. It is blocking drivers view of pedestrians and oncoming cars.

Two very large signs have been installed at Lynwood Commons development One is along Baker Hill Road the other on Lynwood Center Are these signs to code for allowable signage?

2 new exterior bright lights were recently installed ~16 feet high above grade on office building and are generally aimed at parking lot. Lights, which have been on 24/7, are neither hooded nor shielded from Vineyard Lane condos across the road. There is definite light trespass that will cast a shadow of someone standing on condo association land. These lights appear to not be in compliance with BIMC 18.15.040. And the night sky is no longer visible. Photo taken from condo property.

A/C being installed on a neighbors boathouse near our deck area and the waters edge…my understanding is this is not permitted nor is turning a designated boathouse into a dwelling unless it is properly permitted as such