Bainbridge Island Meeting Impact

MAKE AN IMPACT

Date: May 14, 2023

CROSS SOUND CHURCH CONFERENCE ROOM 1PM
600 Erikson Ave NE #210
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

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MAKING OF BI HISTORICAL COMMUNITIES

To meet the needs of Historical Economic Development Growth by identifying Bainbridge Island worthwhile projects, empowering project leadership, creating community involvement pride, finding donors, sponsors, partnership and community at large to help meet each need and requirement.

Bainbridge Island Historic Preservation and Landmarks Destinations is an important way for us to transmit our understanding of the past to future generations. Our Island’s National History and Heritage has many facets, and historic preservation helps tell these stories to our residents and visitors.

An important part of what gives a Bainbridge Island its character and a sense of community pride is its history. By acknowledging the island history is by preserving historic buildings, heritage structures, industrial sites and preserving landmarks, that identifies the specific site where events occurred or a particular style of architecture, or represents a significant era, or a milestone in Bainbridge Island history. Bainbridge Island historic buildings and landmark sites are worth preserving for a number of reasons.

PRESERVING HISTORY THROUGH HISTORICAL ECONOMY

Historical Economy is witnesses to the aesthetic and cultural history of an island community, helping to give people a sense of place and connection to the past. Historic Economy often represents something famous or important to people whom live in a particular island community or those family or destination visitors.

Recognizing the importance of Historical Economy to the public and to the country’s heritage, Congress enacted the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966. This act works to save historic communities, by, “preservation of this irreplaceable heritage is in the public interest so that its vital legacy of cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, economic, and energy benefits will be maintained and enriched for future generations of Americans.”

ECONOMIC BENFITS OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Historical Bainbridge Island Communities especially those built prior to WWII and those built during the Island’s WWII ERA are often made of higher quality materials. Replacing these buildings with similar rare materials/hardwoods such as Island Fir, Hemhock, Cedar would be impractical/unresonable affordablity replacement. Modern Structures tend to have a life expectancy of only 30-40 years, whereas historical buildings were made to last centuries. It can make economic sense to retain historic communities, landmarks and improve them to meet necessary codes and requirements under historical preservation craftmenship ( Example: Sandpoint Naval Air Station and Fort Worden and other national Military Heritage Landmarks.

Rehabilitating historical communities and landmarks to their original appearance not only adds character to the area, but can also help attract a Variety investment, as well as tourists if the structures are historically significant. For example, a historic Fort Ward Naval Incept complex building 61,13, 16 where abandoned building 16 can be turned into WWII Naval Communications Museum, and/or both Historical Mueusm Library of Historical Studies. Thus, giving historical economic life to a historical landmark and even a whole neighborhood having improved environment impact.

AESTHETIC IMPORTANCE OF ISLAND HERITAGE

Aesthetic Importance of Island Heritage often are made with unique, valuable materials such as the Port Blakey Mill, Port Madison Mill, Head of Bay Mill, Chehalis Brick Yard Materials, Mat Matts Quarry Aggregate and JM Baxter Treatment Plant, Hall Brother Shipyard and much more. They may have detailing and features that are no longer visible in our historical communities. Many Americans feel that because of these, historical landmarks have their own identity and distinctive character, making them more interesting than modern buildings. An added benefit to retaining and maintaining heritage sites and landmarks provides methods of workmanship are supported by local commerce, impacting island business capacities. and revenues.

HERITAGE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS

The importance of recycling and environmental community life style has become more and more understood on a household level, but preserving Bainbridge Island history and heritage is recycling on a larger scale. Repairing and reusing existing buildings uses energy and material resources more efficiently and reduces waste. New materials don't need to be created, or waste materials thrown away. Plus energy for rebuilding is conserved. Also, destroying historical sites and forcing century established businesses to move to other locations, release toxins and pollutants in the environment.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION ON BAINBRIDGE ISLAND

Bainbridge Island combines the character of a historic Exploration, Native American, Pioneers, and Military Community, Puget Sound Maritime Heritage with a thriving Winslow, Lynwood and Rolling Bay metropolitan areas. One of the priorities is enhancing and preserving the Bainbridge Island historic resources. Historic areas such as Shipyard, Minesweeper WWII Efforts, Fort Ward have seen no Historical Economic investment and growth, while not preserving it’s many historic structures and character.

The Bainbridge Island City Planning & Zoning Commissions have enacted several regulations to prevent Historical Economic Development Growth, by encourage discrimination to discourage preservation of historic structures. Two areas of the Bainbridge Island City has allowed the destruction of Fort Ward Buildings 11, 61, Radio Tower, Naval Academy Theater and other historical structures are vandalized or subjected to arson. For example, if the historic structures are to be preserved, the Bainbridge Historical Preservation Commission can reduce the amount of required parking, decrease building setbacks or increase recognized historic structures to be historical replaced.

Building 11, must be replaced, for historical significance, to Fort Ward History and recovering HK Porter 0-4-2T Locomotive at Fort Ward. Therfore, The December 7, 2023 Fort Ward Naval Memorial Services Committee, must be encouraged to be organized, for Buildings 61, 13 and between building 16.(This is Intercep Complex)

The memorial Event will include reenactment of December 7th 1941 Naval Communications, between Japan ARC- Bainbridge Island- Pentagon ARC- Pearl Harbor ARC.

Respectfully

Louis Charles Hoffmann Alloin, KI7AGD
Fort Ward Amateur Radio Club
Historical Project Chairmen