Our plan for the Johnson Farm
The Johnson Farm site. We would build behind the wellhouse visible from Fletcher Bay Road.
We are hoping to build our woodshop on about 1.33 acres of the 14.4-acre Johnson Farm, which taxpayers of Bainbridge Island purchased in 2000 for multiple community uses. Our site is a former sand quarry and is not suitable for farming. It is now used one day a year as a parking lot for the community’s Harvest Festival, which is held at the Johnson Farm. The event is so popular that shuttle buses carry most people from off-site parking lots; that service would simply need to expand when we build.
Kia Micaud, a landscape architect whose home overlooks our site, helped us develop a site plan that does not impact any of the other uses envisioned for the farm. The plan includes a direct link from our parking lot to trails on the farm. Farm visitors could use our parking lot and restrooms. Our facilities would also make a good rest stop for bicyclists headed to nearby Gazzam Lake or other destinations.
The site plan accommodates requirements of city zoning regulations, including a line of evergreen trees alongside the neighboring residential property and a turn-around circle for fire trucks. The possible reservoir shown on the plan is likely to be replaced with a rain garden to handle runoff from the roof. Parking areas will either be pervious or drain to rain gardens or bioswales.
Proposed site plan
