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From: Patty Charnas
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 11:17 AM
To: David Greetham
Subject: FW: Following Up on Meeting with Shine Residents, October 21, 2016
Attachments: Hoskins Itrs.pdf; SMP Itr MS-Smith-Haas 4-21-15 crcd.pdf; CorpsDocs.pdf
Patty Charnas-Director
Jefferson County Department of Conununity Development
621 Sheridan Street,Port Townsend,WA 98368
Phone 360-379-4493 Fax 360-379-4451
pcharnas@co.jefferson.wa.us
From: Marilyn Showalter[mailto:marilyn.showalter@gmail.com]
Sent:Sunday, October 23,2016 3:58 PM
To: Patty Charnas<PCharnas@co.jefferson.wa.us>
Subject: Following Up on Meeting with Shine Residents,October 21, 2016
Hi, Patty.
Thank you(and Anna)for spending so much time with us on Friday. We are heartened by your interest and
your knowledge and your apparent determination to figure out what's going on here in Shine.
I think I have already sent you the primary documents we have that can help you evaluate the county's
appropriate role with respect to geoduck farming in Squamish Harbor. For your convenience, I'm including
them again, at the bottom of this email.
You can also expect to receive an email with copies of photos that we showed you, and perhaps some ones you
didn't see.
I hope you won't mind ifI contact you in a week or so,to learn what you are thinking. (We will be thinking,
too.)And of course,please call (360-259-1700) or email me if you need anything from us.
With much appreciation from all of us--Marilyn
Marilyn Showalter
1596 Shine Rd
Port Ludlow, WA 98365
360) 259-1700 (cell)
marilyn.showalter@gmail.com
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From: Marilyn Showalter<marilyn.showalter@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:12 PM LOG ITEM
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Subject: Meeting with Shine Residents, October 21, 2016 at 3 pm
To: pcharnas@co.jefferson.wa.us
Dear Ms. Charnas,
Welcome(back)to Jefferson County! I'm following up on your conversation with Tom Giske,regarding the
upcoming meeting with Shine residents on the subject of geoduck farming in Squamish Harbor, and the need
for appropriate process at the county level. The purpose of this email is to supply you with the particulars of the
meeting, as well as some background materials.
First,the logistics:
Date/Time: Friday, October 21, 2016, at 3 pm
Place: 1596 Shine Road (Marilyn Showalter's house)
Gate Code: 5052#
Marilyn's cell phone, should you need to call or text: 360-259-1700
Directions: Look for address tags 1596 and 1596A on telephone pole.
Turn toward water and go on gravel drive almost as far as you can.
You will see a keypad on a fencepost on your left.
If gate is closed,press 5052#. Gate is slow to open.
Attendees: Marilyn Showalter, Tom Giske, Sue Corbett, Jan Wold, (maybe) Steve Dittmar--all Shine
residents
We want to focus on the county's obligation to require county permits, and relevant procedure,under the latest
Shoreline Management Plan,before current and would-be geoduck farmers can legally farm geoducks in
Squamish Harbor. This WAS the position of Jefferson County, both immediately before and immediately after
the effective date of the new SMP. (See county letters, attached.) Then, in a non-public and informal manner,
the position was reversed. The reversed position assserted that if,prior to the effective date of the new SMP, a
JARPA had been submitted to the Army Corps of Engineers,the proposed activity would be "grandfathered"
under the old SMP.
In an April 21, 2015 letter to the county (attached), I detailed why the original county position is
correct. Among other things,there is no vested rights doctrine or statute or county ordinance that applies to the
Shoreline Management Act. MOREOVER, since I wrote my letter,the JARPAs have been acknowledged to be
incomplete or defective, and withdrawn, so the (flawed)reasoning in the county's reversed position no longer
has a leg to stand on. (See pages A - D, H of attached Corps documents.)
I never received an answer to my letter, and voice mails to David Alvarez(before he left the prosecutor's office)
went unanswered. There has been, as you know, considerable turmoil in personnel and health,both in the
planning office and in the prosecutor's office.
We propose that it's time to get back on track, and get the appropriate process under way,beginning with public
letters to all concerned that county permits are required before geoduck farming can legally be conducted.
In that process, we want to raise our substantive and deep concerns with geoduck farming in Squamish
Harbor. Squamish Harbor is located in the precious but fragile Hood Canal. It is documentep h
spawning ground, a sand lance spawning ground, and a marbled murrelet feeding location. It 11 d
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and endangered salmon, as well as many species of shore birds. It is home to eelgrass beds that these animals
or their prey depend on. It is south-facing and subject to high winds and fetch,which dislodge and distribute
plastic tubes and nets,polluting the waters and endangering marine life. Finally,the particular farmers and
would-be farmers in Squamish Harbor have shown a disregard or ignorance of biological and legal
requirements (e.g. scraping and trampling eelgrass, expanding beds without notice, and building steps and decks
over the water without a permit), further increasing the likelihood of illegal harm to this fragile bay. By
separate email, I will send you a collection of our correspondence with various officials, further explaining our
concerns.
We look forward to meeting with you. If you have any questions or would like further information before the
meeting,please get in touch.
Thank you,
Marilyn Showalter
1596 Shine Rd
Port Ludlow, WA 98365
360) 259-1700 (cell)
marilyn.showalter@gmail.com
Attachments:
Letters from County (Hoskins)
Letter to County from Marilyn Showalter
Army Corps documents
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