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Dear Commissioners and Planners,
We have been watching this development for years now, and this developer keeps failing to meet the measure of Washington's state laws on Master Planned Resorts, particularly the law
that says this developer must build a hotel and recreational amenities first, before he builds any housing. This order of development is state law, passed by our legislature, because
so many developers in our state promised these amenities, but they built housing first and nothing else. The Pleasant Harbor Master Planned Resort development plan was approved, with
890 dwelling units, by our county commissioners in part because it would bring more recreational amenities to this isolated, small town. I understand (through research by the Brinnon
Group) that Garth Mann has a history of doing just the malfeasance experienced in this state, in Alberta.
He has asked the state and county to cover the costs of the recreational amenities defined in the development plan (and verbally promised to the community of Brinnon), but neither had
the money to invest in this project. If a hotel and recreational amenities are to be built first, by law, we need to see all these elements in a preliminary plat before any housing
plans, and we need to see them built first too! We also need to see coordination with Washington DOT for any plans needed to improve the highway intersection near the development site
because it is planned to have so many dwelling units.
Apparently, Garth Mann’s Statesman Group continues to submit plans for residential lots before any plans for a hotel and all the recreational assets defined in the plan. This fact is
very discouraging. We do not want to see all the promises he made to the people of Brinnon disregarded, and lots of homes built on sensitive land (ground that was full of glacial kettles
with rainwater drained internally into the ground water) built before the promised hotel, olympic-sized swimming pool, tennis court, and hockey rink (promised, but not mentioned in
the plan).
Please uphold the law and deliver for Brinnon; they deserve the promised hotel and recreational amenities for all their worry, concern and all the meetings they have had to attend through
the years, as this large development - with as many dwelling units as there are people in Brinnon - tries to come to fruition.
Lys Burden
310 Willow Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368