I want to respond to Nina Murano’s editorial in the Beachcomber last week (“Village Green is not to be built on, needs to be preserved for all island activities,” Aug. 24).

Ms. Murano raised some concerns that most people share. Namely, no one wants the Village Green destroyed by development, and no one wants a building that looks like it belongs in Bellevue. Nina helped raise money to purchase the Village Green to preserve open space, but the space was also set aside so the Farmers Market would have a home. The Park District owns the green, and the market is written in.

The new market structure we build, if the community supports such a project, will be created by islanders, for islanders. It is hard to see in the pictures, but each of the three designs is essentially a barn roof, and two of the designs can be open air in the summer and closed in bad weather. Those two designs are timber-frame compatible and can look how we, Vashonites, want them to look. This is not a project headed by some distant architecture firm. This building will reflect who we are or we’re not building it.

As for the green, everyone wants to preserve the park. The current structure and gravel around it takes a large portion of the green and breaks it up in a way that doesn’t use it well. Our goal is to place the larger building so that the green is maximized in a way it isn’t currently so the park will be improved and better used by everyone. Thank you, Nina, for being a voice for the park. It is a public space we all share, and we need all voices to get this right.

I am a Vashon Island Growers Association (VIGA) board member; islanders can send me feedback about the proposed structures at celinayarkin@yahoo.com.

— Celina Yarkin