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Michelle McConnell
From:ken shock [sailboi@gmail.com]
Sent:Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:34 AM
To:Stewart, Jeff R. (ECY)
Cc:Stockdale, Erik (ECY); Scott; dschultz@waypoint.com; Jim Boyer; BARB; Richard Hild;
MIKE BELENSKI; ken shock; Jim Fritz; Henry M Souza; Gene Farr; Ellen Grus; CAO John
Richmond; Larry Carter; Norman MacLeod; George Sickel; Bud Schindler; DR KENN
BROOKS; dennis@ddrlaw.com; Joe D'Amico; robertc@harpub.com
Subject:Jefferson County SMP
Categories:LASMP Public Comment
Mr Jeffree Stewart, Shoreline Specialist, DOE
Mr Stewart,
I have two five acre properties on the Dosewallips River, which are impacted by this SMP. I made mortgage
payments for over 25 years on these properties, beginning in 1983. The one property has a cabin which we built
for Summer use, and which we had eventually planned to replace with an all season dwelling. This site will be
non conforming if your SMP becomes law. On the second property we built a legally permitted dwelling - both
properties are in a family partnership and will go to our children unless the government takes them.
The permitting requirements we experienced dealing with Jefferson County over the years were notoriously
rigorous, mostly due to the control of the County by a cadre of overzealous environmental activists based in
Port Townsend. I have a feeling that you and in fact the DOE leadership - are well aware of this. In fact I
believe that because of this Jefferson County was to be used as a precedent setting County on CAO, SMP and
WIRA regulation sought by Futurewise and WEC - via DOE !
Because I have had first hand experience with Jefferson's DCD regulators, and the expense of dealing with their
convoluted processes, I am hereby stating that this new SMP is unnecessary. Port Townsend and the DCD have
already quashed any chance of:
*significant population growth
*significant retail growth
*any industry outside the UGA
*significant environmental degradation
*access to the National Park
etc etc - we are shut down
I have attended the WRIA 16 meetings over the years, I am on their mailing list, so I have an idea of the sort of
thrust DOE are taking from a theoretical perspective - and I say theory for a reason. There are State
requirements for Best Available Science (BAS) as a basis in the taking of property, even for partial takings -
which is what the SMP is intended to do. I have listened, I have studied - I often see no basis in science for
DOE proposals, including this SMP. DOE theories are not BAS, fact is theory is more like religion - I don't
believe in your religion, Jeffree !!!
I have also studied your artwork, and your photographic art collections linked below. I see you as an idealist
who likes the sweeping, uninhabited shorelines you archive. I have also seen the pictures of your art studio, and
I am sure you love your studio, and I imagine you have a rustic home of that same property. On a more personal
note, Jeffree, I am an organic gardener. Not like so many recent adherents, I first subscribed to these theories in
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1970 - 40 years ago. I am also a scientist, studied Physics and Mathematics through all the coursework required
for a PhD, so I am quite capable of reading and making judgments on what DOE are attempting to do to rural
folks - and it is clear to me that DOE is attacking me, my property and therefore my posterity.
How would you like it if I did that to your property ?? Oh, that couldn't happen you may think, because you are
doing the work of the State. We let me tell you, I think you do have personal liabilities in what you have done
and are doing in Jefferson County !! I feel the pain - we all feel it over here, Jeffree, and to the extent you have
gone beyond what the State requires - you have damaged me, caused stress to me, threatened my life savings -
and that of my neighbors.
I am asking that you hereby cease and desist in your attack on my property, and my peaceful right of enjoyment.
I have absolutely no intention of letting you rest and be peaceful, if you do not afford me the same cordiality.
What is fair is fair, and I do not see you as fair.
Sincerely
Ken Shock
http://brinnonprosperity.org
http://www.artreview.com/profile/JeffreeStewart
http://jeffreestewartpaintings.com/intro.htm
http://www.flickr.com/people/8416698@N06/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/seascape/pool/
http://www.lurvely.com/index.php?owner=8416698@N06&page=1
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