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May 11, 2026 City Council Workshop —Salish Coast
Table Notes
Infrastructure: Water, Sewer, Facilities, Streets, Parks & Trails
• Parks- Blackberry Eradication
• Underbrush- fire hazard
• Inventory of Land- Ag on City Land
o Community Gardens
o Water
o BuildingforAg
• Ag infrastructure
o Processing facilities
• Wastewater Plant
• Food Waste
• Transfer Station
o Recycle
• Street Maintenance
o Local
• LOS
• Water- Projection
• OGWS
• Wells
o De Sal
• Evans Vista
o Grants
• Trails
o E-bike Speed
o Leash
• Newsletter
Communications & Engagement
• Access to public comment
• Access to city archives
May 11, 2026 City Council Workshop —Salish Coast
Table Notes
• Granicus capability- more clear?
• Hours more clearly communicated
• How to find info in committee packets- buried details
• What are our measures of success?
• When engagement happens isn't always "ideal" or on the city's timeline- honor the
voices when they show up
• Times/methods varying engagement
• Direct voting on initiatives brought forward by community
• Access to council members- calendars to sign up for meetings aka office hours
• Human to human
• Clarify county vs. city projects
• Contact info for advisory boards
• Sm. Lens (reductionism) vs. broader view (bigger scheme)
• Staff being publicly engaged
• Sharing the details early and often (impacts)
• Complexity of the budget, grants, etc. once you have people engaged
• "Every dime has rules"
• Why- explain in detail or simple and visual
• Driving people to more info
• Where does council and community input show up in decision? (show the process)
Housing, Evans Vista, Comp Plan Implementation & Permitting
• Follow up re: Caswell Brown new units
• Info on how point in time Count is run and used
• Cost of housing
• Value of food and food bank growing
• Affordability requirements for Evans Vista
• Converting existing buildings to residential
• How comp plan makes development regs
• Ethos of PT
• Cappy's Trails
• Neighborhood meetings in future
• Historic preservation
May 11, 2026 City Council Workshop —Salish Coast
Table Notes
Transportation Projects and Planning
• Fewer cartrips, more bike infrastructure
• Expand public transit
• Pedestrian zones?
• Parking: paid! No!
• Issues with pedestrian/bike conflicts
• Support for sustainable streets plan
• Mixed feeling son ride share- is there a public option here?
• Trolly
• Lawrence st: encourage use of arterials
• Hotel and parking
• Traffic calming
• Speed enforcement- concern w/ surveillance
• Complete streets
• Paid parking: mixed reviews & concerns with surveillance and benefits for revenue
and reduction of car trips
• Support for more public transit
• Support for bike infrastructure (and more)
• More neighborhood connections/greenways- concern with bike and roundabouts
• ELRs: general support bus still challenges with markings and safety and parking
• Traffic calming: general support and support for concepts in sustainable streets
plan
• More roundabouts?
Port Townsend Creative District, Arts and Culture, and Parks
Plus +
• Public art for arts sake
• Soundcheck
• PTFF
• Accessible playground
• Increase in ptac grant
• Paid art position
• Fairgrounds
May 11, 2026 City Council Workshop —Salish Coast
Table Notes
• TPA
• KPTZ
• Bike access to downtown
• PT School Art Wave Show in April
• 1 % for the Arts
• Shipwrights- more women builders
• Historic preservation
• Craftsmanship
• Walkability
Minus -
• More musicians on PTAC and needs to be paid equitably
• PTAC members receiving PTAC grants
• Not everyone can afford to live in pt
• Invasive species and blackberry bushes
Missing?
• Parks regionalization
• Incubator buildingfor artists
• Artist startup spaces
• Are wee guarding ethos of PT
• Youth camps
• Arts and culture at golf park performance space
• Accountability to know what happened with city engagement
• Not knowing what the creative district is
Finance and Budget
• Housing 2027 Budget Priorities
• Helping unhoused residents in 2026 and 2027
• Discussion and interest in looking at efficiencies in every dept.
• Discussed public records for the city
• How is any extra money invested
• Deeper dive into "piggy banks" for fleets, 1 +, facilities and rainy day funds
• Talked about our current grants that have been rewarded to the city in 25 and now 26
May 11, 2026 City Council Workshop —Salish Coast
Table Notes
• Funds for affordable housing. How would this be managed
• And how transportation benefit district fund has helped to receive grants and more
work can be done
• How can organizations work with the city
• Look at redundancies between local Jefferson County public agencies, PUD, County
City and Port