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County’s comment
5.a Cultural Resources Management Plan. Section 8.8.3 of the development agreement requires a
cultural resources management plan that supports tribal access and community education
opportunities. Please provide a narrative or similar information explaining how the project is consistent
with these requirements. PHMPR may choose to highlight features of site design and layout, plans to
install educational signage, agreements with affected tribes, or similar information that may exist. Please
note that appendix Q of the Development Agreement is an archaeological monitoring plan with
inadvertent discovery protocol and does not explain how the project achieves the project requirements
outlined in the Development Agreement.
PHMPR RESPONSE
In an effort to support Tribal access and cultural education opportunities PHMPR has reconfigured the
development to preserve kettle “B” in a natural state and relocate the stormwater retention pond to
kettle ”C”. We have invited the Port Gamble SKlallam Indian tribe and the Skokomish Indian tribe to
participate in the design of signage for this feature describing its cultural significance. This feature is
located in the publicly accessible portion of the Development. We have not received any feedback from
either tribe in response to our invitation however we were copied on a government-to-government
correspondence that states the property in question was in the area traditionally occupied by the
Skokomish tribe.
The project also includes a 200-foot-wide conservation easement along the bluff above the tidelands on
the southern edge of the development. This easement was incorporated specifically to protect the
shellfish beds of the Duckabush delta traditionally used by the Skokomish tribe. The tribe made a
request for this easement.
Exhibit 42