HomeMy WebLinkAbout058 Sonia StoryZON18-00036 with visual attachments, part 1
From Sonia Story
Eaglemount Road, Chimacum, WA
Nov. 16, 2018
Greetings Members of the Jefferson County Planning Commission,
Sincere thanks for your service to our community.
It helps to have some visuals to highlight the enormous possible safety hazards inherent in the proposed commercial shooting
ranges near Tarboo Lake and watershed.
Look at the two attachments with screenshots of bullet-range information and map of Tarboo vicinity.
If the unprecedented, privately owned weapons training complex were to be built, the 7 proposed shooting ranges at the facility
would face away from Tarboo Lake and directly toward State Highway 104 from two directions and toward Center road from one
direction.
In this scenario, it is only a matter of time before a tragic disaster happens. And then it is too late.
If you allow this project to go through unchecked, it is a distinct possibility that someone traveling on these roads could get hurt
or killed due to a direct hit or indirectly, from distracted driving due to all the noise.
You would be accountable for this.
We must admit that humans make errors, no matter how good the intentions. Not only are roads and drivers vulnerable to stray
bullets, but homes, people and farms are within the direct vicinity and direction of the proposed shooting ranges.
Additionally: Were this project to be built, there is no way to ensure oversight and safety precautions are adequate or even
followed. Wildfires could easily start from explosives and gun fire and we could lose human beings, homes, farms, forests,
businesses and all the natural beauty of the region.
You would be accountable for this.
In addition, bullets ricochet and someone could be killed or hurt at Tarboo lake.
I trust you will recognize that near Tarboo Lake is absolutely the wrong place to put such a facility.
To be consistent with the Jefferson county comprehensive plan, the designation for gun ranges MUST be kept for only “small-scale
recreation and tourist uses”.
And “When a development regulation is inconsistent with a Comp Plan, the development regulation is UNLAWFUL.”
(according to Bricklin and Newman, land use attorneys, Re: "Amendment to Title 18 Relating to Shooting Facilities” emphasis
added).
Sonia Story <sonia@moveplaythrive.com>
Thu 11/15/2018 11:36 PM
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I urge you to do the right thing. The most lawful and common sense approach is to REJECT the staff’s proposed Title 18 ordinance
which leaves the whole county open to commercial shooting facilities of unlimited size and intensity.
The land use attorneys of TRC have already proposed a sound plan that can be followed and would withstand legal challenge. It is
a “no brainer” to follow the TRC recommendations which are based on already legally sound and working ordinance in Kitsap
county.
Respectfully,
Sonia Story
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