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Home My WebLink About052 Emails from ResidentsDonna Frostholm From: Sara Davis <saraonshine@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2025 8:54 PM To: Donna Frostholm Subject: Proposed oyster farm in Squamish Harbor Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. Attention Donna Frostholm. We are sending this email because we are very much opposed to a proposed oyster farm in Squamish Harbor in the Shine area near Hood Canal Bridge. We are actually shocked that anyone would propose any kind of aqua farming in this area. The area surrounding Hood Canal Bridge is a high wind area. Especially during fall, winter and spring there are many incidents of high wind in this area. To put in a two acre farm with thousands of small pieces including rebar and oyster baskets is giving someone permission to litter our waters. It is just a fact that pieces will come unhinged and litter our otherwise pristine waters. Animals in these waters do not need more garbage to litter their habitat. This oyster farm is just a bad idea. We encourage you to not allow it to proceed and pollute the waters of Squamish Harbor and the surrounding areas. Sincerely, Ed and Sara Davis 1254 Shine Road Port Ludlow Wa 98365 Donna Frostholm From: Kerri Patterson <kerripatterson@msn.com> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2025 7:26 PM To: Donna Frostholm Subject: Rock Island (Oyster) Public Hearing Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. Hello my husband and I reside on Shine Road and use the beach to walk, kayak, row out to drop crab pots, play with grandkids and gather shellfish. We are worried about the following: *We didn't get proper notice and beleive the case should start over with proper notice to the community. *We are worried about running into rebar while kayaking, which has happened before when a close neighbor put out stakes to mark the area. The rebar is dangerous when it is so close to the surface for kayakers, rowers, paddle boarders and jet skies. *There is such natural beauty here and a 3 foot high rebar with hanging plastic baskets will take that away from the community and our many visitors to our communities beaches. * We seem to pick up trashed oyster baskets often on the beach that somehow get dislodged and this seems like another opportunity for more litter on the beach. *Our community picks up lots of garbage on the beaches in front of our homes to keep our beaches healthy and natural. We also gather once a year on Earth Day to do a big cleanup at our own expense. We are doing our part and beleive that we are not getting a proper say in this endeavor. * We have already had fires in this area from illegal activities and believe there is a fire risk posed by illegal structures, including electricity, in a dead-end non-public road that is NOT accessible by fire trucks, per the East Jefferson Fire Chief, who personally visited the site. *We worry that there are unexamined cumulative effects of more and more -proposed shellfish farms on Squamish Harbor tidelands. * We feel we have important information that we can provide, because we are the ones who live here. But we need the chance to Thank you for your time. Mike and Kerri Patterson Donna Frostholm From: Tony Brenna <brengun@olympus.net> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2025 8:10 AM To: Donna Frostholm Subject: Oyster Farm Potential Disaster ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. Why does the Country disregard the views of resident and taxpayers, usually bowing to the demands of commercial interests? It was the same with the geoduck farm on Shine which is an eyesore. We moved here for the natural beauty and bought highly taxed property. We didn't think the county would be put it at risk by allowing high rebar on beaches and tidal sands. Additionally, plastic bucket sticking up from the sand, certainly won't harmonize with he bucolic view. Nor will commercial vehicles and workers prowling the sands our homes look out on. Also, what are you going to do when a kayaker or paddle boarder get injured by under -water spikes and sues the county? Is there not enough garbage floating in the canal already? Garbage that County mostly ignores, does not collect. Hasn't the eel grass vital to salmon spawning already received enough damage from unscrupulous men pounding the natural resources to death to make money and spoil views that enhance the value of our property? And why does the County put up notices where people can't read them. Are you not ashamed of this deceptive treatment of people who pay your salaries? Is it that you don't want us to notice what your are doing? Is there not already enough risk of fire in the Shine area? We have already had fires, the cause of which has never been explained -- possibly caused by the homeless camping out or vandals. Letting in more commercial vehicles and workeres does not help. This is not an industrial zone. Moreover you want to put up more structures in a dead-end electrified non-public road, not accessible by fire trucks. Why? Are you ready to compensate us if a blaze occurs that damages our property? Do you know the long term consequences of your proposed actions? Has a study been done, on the cumulative effects of spreading shellfish farms on tidelands? This project is sickening in many of its aspects, and we are letting you know how we feel about it. We look forward to your response. Sincerely, Tony Brenna and Elena Brenna, 110 Harborview Place, Port Ludlow, 98365. (Residents and land owners on Shine for the past 36 years). I would appreciate your answers on all these points, Sincerely, Tony Brenna, journalist and resident 360 437 9493. Virus -free www.avq.com 1 Donna Frostholm From: K Lopilato <karen.lopilato@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2025 6:04 PM To: Donna Frostholm Subject: Regarding the Public Hearing on Tuesday, Aug 19 Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. Hello, I have a big worry about this project: Looking at pictures of these metal and plastic cages, it seems they would be very unsafe to the public that might be swimming or paddling by. If a child was playing in the water, what is to prevent them from hurting themselves on these? I understand they are on private tidelands. But children don't understand or respect what that means. What if the child got trapped somehow by that infrastructure when the tide begins to come in? And the bizarre look of this massive infrastructure would surely be an attractive danger to a child swimming by. The same applies to paddle -boarders or kayakers. There are many visitors to the Hood Canal, and they don't understand what private tidelands are or how to calculate where they are. I often see tourists in that area and I am afraid their safety would be at risk. Thank you for your time, Karen Lopilato Donna Frostholm From: Heethe Cowing <heethe88@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 4:32 AM To: Donna Frostholm Subject: Opposition to SDP2024-00006 Shoreline Aquaculture Proposal on Kilapie Beach Road ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. Subject: Opposition to SDP2024-00006 —Shoreline Aquaculture Proposal on Killapie Beach Road Dear Ms. Frostholm, I am a resident of Shine Road, writing to express my deep concern regarding the pending permit application SDP2024- 00006 submitted by Rock Island Shellfish, proposing a commercial oyster operation along the shoreline near Killapie Beach Road. I would like my comments to be entered into the public record. There is already one aquaculture operation on this road, and it has had a negative impact on our small community. Since it began, we've seen increased traffic, speeding along the private easement, and heavy use of our shared boat launch. The operation's pontoon boat and gear are regularly transported up and down our narrow road, causing damage to the easement and creating safety issues for pedestrians, families, and other residents. The proposed expansion of shellfish farming into our peaceful, residential shoreline would only increase these problems. Many residents are also concerned about the man behind this proposal. There is a long-standing history of questionable and possibly unpermitted activity on that parcel. It's widely known that someone has been living in a van and -a structure on the property for some time. We worry this aquaculture application is being used as a way to legitimize continued unpermitted use of shoreline land for personal benefit. This beach and community are not suited for industrial -style aquaculture operations. We enjoy and depend on the natural beauty, quiet, and recreational access to this stretch of Hood Canal, and we strongly oppose any further development that puts it at risk. Please keep me informed of the outcome of this application. I also plan to attend the public hearing and will be encouraging my neighbors to join as well. Sincerely, Heethe Cowing Resident —Shine Road Jefferson County, WA