HomeMy WebLinkAbout022 YountTo: Jefferson County Planning Commission
Form: George Yount
7L7 25th Street
Port Townsend WA 98368
Date: November 7 2008
Attended several meetings and hearings on the gun range moratorium issue.
Commissioner Dean the lack of specificity or "guard rails" provided relating to scope of commercial ranges and
their operations.
Not giving this time or due diligence to understand and appreciate its impact on the environment and the
reverberating noise that will be generated.
The haste of adopting this gun safety ordinance and associated land use "harmonizing" is being driven by
pending legal action by one individual who has placed his gun range vision out for everyone to see. The
county and its citizens are caught in the cross hairs, being perceived as aiming a modified gun range ordinance
at his personal project when real mission of the ordinance is to address allcommercial and non-commercial
ranges. Are we all being put in a no win position?
We must stay at 30K feet and work through this general safety ordinance and harmonize it with the U D
Codes.
o Recommend you accept the modifications suggest by the county's legal staff.
o Look carefully at commercial and industrial parks. ln door ranges should be included.
o lf ranges must be in residential areas, only indoor gun ranges so gun discharge does not go beyond
the property sight.
o I don't know where this fits in land use but if gun noise is going to be inflicted on communities.
Somewhere in the operating agreement or conditional use permit, there must be predictable days
and times when an effected community can expect the sound of silence.