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Council debates programming and restroom design for new downtown community event center
Summary
Council members and staff discussed whether to reprogram an upper‑floor space and how to configure restrooms; the council leaned toward moving forward with the current design but asked staff to explore stacked, single‑gender restroom options and door configurations to avoid construction delays and preserve grant funding.
Port Orchard councilors spent a prolonged portion of the July 22 meeting debating how to program an upper‑floor room and how restrooms should be configured in the proposed downtown community event center, with members split between redesigning for larger banquet capacity and preserving current design to meet grant and construction schedules.
The city's mayor and development staff reminded the council the building design was completed previously, that some project grants carry start‑of‑construction deadlines, and that redesigning the kitchen or moving stairwells would add cost and time. Director Nick Bond told councilors that moving the kitchen to the upper corner would be “extremely expensive” and would require relocation of stair and elevator elements and could affect the…
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