HomeMy WebLinkAbout16.Bergeron, D.-OSF 5-11_JeffCo Proposed SMP Amendment (Res No 77-01) (44)
Michelle McConnell
From:Dick Bergeron [mountaincoalition@yahoo.com]
Sent:Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:59 AM
To:Stewart, Jeff R. (ECY)
Subject:Jefferson County Proposed SMP Amendment (Res. No. 77-01)
Categories:LASMP Public Comment
By E-Mail (jeff.stewart@ecy.wa.gov)
Jeffrey Stewart, Shoreline Specialist
Washington State Department of Ecology
P.O. Box 47775
Olympia, WA 98504-7775
Re: Jefferson County Proposed SMP Amendment (Res. No. 77-01)
Dear Mr. Stewart:
As a member of the Olympic Stewardship Foundation, I request that the comments submitted by Attorney
Dennis D. Reynolds on behalf of the OSF be incorporated in full as my comments.
In addition, I wish to emphasize the following:
• The proposed SMP amendment incorporates liberal construction. I insist that liberal construction must
also apply to the laws and rules that have forced the SMP amendment to occur. This has not been done.
• As an owner of common shoreline property that will be affected by the proposed SMP amendment, I
contend that
shoreline residents and shoreline property owners were deliberately excluded from the planning
process in violation of the intent of the legislature. The ability of a public comment option is not adequate
compensation for the failure to include affected landowners in the committee process.
• The county was not diligent in using science to determine text in the proposed SMP amendment. The
county failed to identify and assemble the most current, accurate, and complete scientific and technical
information available that is applicable to the issues of concern.
• Under the guise of providing planning assistance to the county, emboldened by a substantial sum of
money paid to the county by the Department, Ecology inappropriately dictated provisions of the proposed SMP
amendment that reflected personal views of Ecology’s representative in what the legislature intended to be a
local planning effort.
Respectfully submitted,
Dick Bergeron
240 Elk Dr.
Brinnon WA 98320
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