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Cristina Haworth
From:George Terry <GTerry@co.jefferson.wa.us>
Sent:Tuesday, September 16, 2025 9:50 AM
To:Cristina Haworth
Subject:FW: Comment on Preliminary Plat Proposed for First Phase of Pleasant Harbor Master
Planned Resort
FYI, another. I am packaging all comments received on the NORA to send to the applicant (JT and Ryan) today for a
response. Is there a date we need to have their responses by?
Also, I hope to send out a courtesy email to a few interested parties, before the NOH goes live on 9/24, notifying them of
the project webpage and the hearing documents being available. Do you have specific recipients in mind?
Am I neglecting anything? Dizzy week already.
-George
From: Planning <planning@co.jefferson.wa.us>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 8:51 AM
To: George Terry <GTerry@co.jefferson.wa.us>
Subject: FW: Comment on Preliminary Plat Proposed for First Phase of Pleasant Harbor Master Planned Resort
From: wpburden@aol.com <wpburden@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 1:26 AM
To: Planning <planning@co.jefferson.wa.us>
Cc: Tonia Burkett <tonia@usawaconsulting.com>; hdudleyinollette@co.jefferson.wa.us; Heidi Eisenhour
<HEisenhour@co.jefferson.wa.us>; Greg Brotherton <GBrotherton@co.jefferson.wa.us>
Subject: Comment on Preliminary Plat Proposed for First Phase of Pleasant Harbor Master Planned Resort
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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.
Exhibit 65R
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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
Exhibit 65R