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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08/12/2025 - Regular - Additional Doc - Rick Boston, 1460 SedgwickTo Mayor Putaansuu & City Council Mark Trenary Jay Rosapepe Scott Diener Eric Worden Hiedi Fenton John Morrissey August 12, 2025 It appears that your city, as run by staff people, hate the people living here in this town, despise small business who provides services and employment opportunity to the community, and are utterly focused on driving investment by small business out of this city. This is a Port Orchard pattern becoming known by all business people. It has gotten seriously nasty since the last mayoral election. Why do we say this? I'll give my example: Last November 2024 my tenant moved out and a new tenant took over at 1460 Sedgwick. On Dec 10, the new tenant had City inspect for U&O permit. They told us to fix six things: 1. Tenant had raised height of the cubicle partitions by 18 inches and added two interior doors, thus the new tenant had to submit a permit, which he did the next day. But City required an architect get involved. 2. A 2x3 blocked 20% of one heat vent, he unblocked it the next day in 10 minutes. 3. City lady wanted our cook stove removed, no code basis but we did it in 30 minutes 4. City felt a window was dangerous, so we paneled over it, took 60 minutes 5. City felt our unused woodstove (enclosed in a cabinet) must be removed, it was free- standing and removed with chimney sealed within 40 minutes. 6. We made his space 9% smaller by eliminating his access to a back room. This seems to have caused a total freak out by the City. The building is still vacant, why? The City demanded that we don't occupy until they say ok. That has been 10 months vacant, $34,000 lost rental business, and $7,600 wasted on an architect. There is no way any small business can survive this abuse of power. There is no safety issues or any issues at all. City Council (Eric Worden, Hiedi Fenton) toured the property in January 2025 and building was pristine perfect. Architect has proved that it satisfies code. We have had business tenants in this office building for 20 years. Original tenants were Delta Construction, and a Western Saddle shop. The last 13 years has been under City authority while Graphic Reflections and then Olympic Tree were the tenants. No problems, no issues, no changes. I beg mercy. Please, as owner I have done everything the City asks. Can not anyone in authority position take charge and eliminate this disrespect and abuse. Is your desire to destroy this City? No, I think this abuse of power is simply overlooked and cloaked as "process". I hope elected officials can actually accept the responsibility they are given by the citizens to do good and benefit the people. Respectively Ricoston Manager for 1460 Sedgwick 1460 Sedgwick PS Benefits of this commercial property to the City This small business location at 1460 Sedgwick has been an incubator for small start up business. As an old facility built in 1960s and virtually unchanged except for minor maintenance our rental rates have been kept very low. The old house created spaces for two or three office businesses and the garage building provides space for two or three vehicular based businesses. Parking area was large with gravel parking with asphalt access and maneuver area. Originally it had been a home based towing business. Any new business would thus be quite similar. Most tenants have averaged about 3 to 6 years then as they grow they move on to larger facilities. For example: Graphic Reflections started as a T-shirt shop and grew to major graphic advertising business. They first moved to another location in Port Orchard (for double the rent) then bought their own building in Bremerton. Affordable Roofing outgrew our garage building and moved to a larger facility on Mile Hill paying 3 times the rent. Cascade Auto, which you denied occupancy, was a small Internet office sales business. They out -grew our space and moved to a facility in Kitsap County paying twice the rent. So 1460 Sedgwick has been very beneficial to Port Orchard citizens. Are you in a hurry to eliminate that? Future of this area Based on your new zoning it will eventually be torn down for new high -density apartments. That likely won't happen soon as it would be a crappy place to live right on a very busy State Highway and adjacent to 18,000 volt power transmission lines. But for now all these little multiple businesses here will remain small. It is on a private Well and Septic with costs far exceeding $500,000 to switch to public water and sewer. Again this is why construction expansion is not possible until all these south Sedgwick lots are combined into a $1 0+ million area redevelopment that becomes economically feasible. The Pain and suffering As an 81 year old, my retirement and health has been destroyed by your bureaucrats. I live on this investment of this old house. Now I can hardly afford to live, social security is not enough. If I don't pay your taxes, government will simply take everything I worked my life for. (Your employees have banned the ability to have revenue for no reason except bureaucracy.) How could anyone be so in -humane, so completely uncaring? The hundreds of hours I spent on this ridiculous scam has made me physically sick. It appears your City is striving to kill the American dream for any young entrepreneurs. Your city goal seems to have become: have everyone live in a sleazy apartment and work like a slave for a big corporation.