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HomeMy WebLinkAboutM111802Co �gsON C� ti �N� District No. 1 Commissioner: Dan Titterness District No. 2 Commissioner: Glen Huntingford District No. 3 Commissioner: Richard Wait County Administrator: David Goldsmith Deputy County Administrator: Gary Rowe Clerk of the Board: Lorna Delaney MINUTE S Week of November 18, 2002 The meeting was called to order by Chairman Richard Wojt. Commissioner Dan Titterness was present. Commissioner Glen Huntingford was not present. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Commissioner Titterness moved to approve the minutes of October 28, 2002 as submitted. Commissioner Wojt seconded the motion which carried. Easement to the County for Public Access Trail in Lower Hadlock; From the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building: County Administrator David Goldsmith advised that this easement is part of a grant application the Wooden Boat School has received. They are building a dock facility and this easement will allow that project to go forward. This is part of a larger project at the site. The Wooden Boat School will hold the County harmless if there is any type of problem on the easement area. Commissioner Titterness asked about the current condition of this area? David Goldsmith explained that there is a dock in need of repair but public access to the site won't be allowed while the dock is being repaired. The County is agreeing to accept the responsibility for the easement for 25 years, and the NW School of Wooden Boat Building is accepting the liability for any physical problems. Commissioner Titterness moved to approve the easement for the Public Access Trail. Chairman Wojt seconded the motion which carried. AGREEMENT, Labor, First Technical Amendment; Sheriff's Sergeants, Teamsters Local #589: David Goldsmith reported that this technical amendment is to correct an inadvertent typographical error that occurred in Appendix A, Section A of the signed agreement adopted January 1, 2002. Commissioner Titterness moved to approve the technical amendment to the Teamsters Labor Agreement as presented. Chairman Wojt seconded the motion which carried. Page 1 Commissioners Meeting Minutes: Week of November 18, 2002 / COUNTYADMINISTRA TOR BRIEFING SESSION. • David Goldsmith reported that the hearing notice for the Comprehensive Plan Amendments needs to be finalized so that it can be published. Fred Hill Materials has requested that the hearing on their issue be held on Thursday evening instead of Friday due to a scheduling conflict with an employee function that has been planned for over a year. They have also advised that there may be up to 500 people at the hearing which would require a larger space than the Superior Courtroom at the Courthouse. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: The following comments were made: A person thanked the Board for considering a change of venue for the public hearings on December 5 and 6 and asked that ground rules for the hearings be provided; and another person asked that the ground rules be set for these hearings soon and thanked the Board for their consideration of changing the Fred Hill Materials MRL hearing date. APPROVAL AND ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT AGENDA: Commissioner Titterness moved to approve and adopt the Consent Agenda as presented. Chairman Wojt seconded the motion which carried. 1. RESOLUTION NO. 70-02 re: Updating the Jefferson County Records Access Policy 2. HEARING NOTICE re: Proposed Ordinance to Establish a No Shooting Zone; Located on the South Coyle Peninsula; Hearing Scheduled for Monday, December 9, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. at the Coyle Community Center 3. HEARING NOTICE re: Setting Ad Valorem Tax Levies for Collection in 2003; Hearing Scheduled for Monday, December 9, 2002 at 10:05 a.m. in the Commissioners' Chambers 4. REAPPOINTMENT TO AN ADVISORY BOARD: Rick Banta to serve another 2 year term on the Jefferson County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWAC); Term Expires 10/23/04. Request to Reconsider Board Decision; Denial of Spigarelli Plat Extension: (See also minutes of November 4 and 12, 2002) Director of Community Development Al Scalf thanked the Board for reconsidering this plat extension. He reported that this application for a 16 lot subdivision, with a density of 5 acres per lot, was made on December 5, 1996. It went through SEPA review and received an MDNS with twenty conditions on August 1, 1997. It went to the Hearings Examiner for public review and he issued findings and conclusions and a decision dated September 26, 1997 that included 35 conditions. The applicant had 5 years to meet the specified conditions. The project was vested under the procedural regulations at the time of application which were replaced by new regulations when the Comprehensive Plan was approved in 1998. On September 6, 2002, Trillium applied for a PRRD (Planned Rural Residential Development) on the property, based upon information from DCD staff which was included in a letter dated March 8, 2002. DCD Staff should have told Trillium to submit a letter to extend the Spigerelli Plat. If they would have extended it, they could have come back and modified the proposal. The applicant has paid approximately $9,000 in fees Page 2 Commissioners Meeting Minutes: Week of November 18, 2002 / in order to proceed as directed. The Board must grant an extension or allow an administrative variance. If this plat is extended for 12 months, it could be finalized. The two ways to accomplish this are to extend the original plat for 12 months, finish it, and apply for the PRRD or to put the PRRD under the original plat and have the project go directly to the Hearings Examiner for review. Michelle Sandoval reviewed the timeline of events. She said that the applicant was told that the vesting process for the project was simply to have the PRRD application deemed complete and nothing was said about getting an extension on the Spigerelli Plat. The PRRD application was submitted by August 26, however the check for the fees was not submitted until September 5. Commissioner Titterness moved to grant the Spigerelli Preliminary Plat an administrative variance until September 26, 2003 as revised by the PRRD application currently under review in the Department of Community Development. Chairman Wojt seconded the motion which carried. HEARING re: Seawater Intrusion (Adopted by Emergency Ord 9-0923-02): Al Scalf explained that the Board adopted Resolution No. 44-02 regarding a Saltwater Intrusion Policy on July 22, 2002. They also adopted Ordinance 07-0723-02 which amended the Unified Development Code and the regulations implementing saltwater intrusion. The effective date was September 23, 2002. On September 23, the Board took action to create an interim zoning control which is effective for 6 months to 1 year depending on whether a workplan for related studies is developed. A public hearing is required within 60 days. The interim control amended sections of the UDC dealing with Seawater Intrusion Protection Zones (SIPZ), well drilling, variances for areas around a ground water source, and language having to do with a reasonable probability that the subject aquifer will not be degraded. No building permits have been applied for in the last 2 months in a high risk SIPZ. Chairman Wojt opened the public hearing. Nancy Dorgan, Port Townsend, read and submitted her testimony. (See attached document.) Hearing no further testimony, the Chairman closed the public hearing. He stated that the interim ordinance will remain in place for 4 more months. David Alvarez added that the County should get a decision from the Hearings Board within the next few weeks that will help clarify these issues. The Board then interviewed Joan Linderoth (2:00 p.m.) and Sven Solvik (2:15 p.m.) for appointment to the Parks Advisory Board representing Commissioner District #1. Page 3 Commissioners Meeting Minutes: Week of November 18, 2002 Advisory Board Appointment: Commissioner Titterness moved to appoint Joan Linderoth to represent Commissioner District 41 on the Parks Advisory Board. Chairman Wojt seconded the motion which carried. Her term will expire on November 18, 2004. MEETING ADJOURNED JEFFERSON COUNTY OF COM ISSIONERS SEAL: ,,► " `' ` ichard Wojt, Chair .: 11 r \ It .4 1 -len Hunting ord, err ATTEST: Dan Titterness, Member Lorna Delaney, CMC Clerk of the Board Page 4 31D People for a Liveable Community PO Box 667 Port Townsend, WA 98368 November 18, 2002 To: Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners Re: Saltwater Intrusion Commissioners: On March 13, 2002, at a WSU Extension Class on "Water Law" that I was attending, I heard then- County Administrator Charles Sadler make the following comments to regarding OEC's Saltwater Intrusion Appeal. He described the county's response this way: "The issue is going to be one that's going to be around for a while. I will be greatly amazed if Jefferson County comes up with a fix first off the bat. I expect that this is going to be like throwing darts at a moving target. We're probably, political nature and financial nature, going to come in with a low ball. It's not going to cut it. Then we're probably going to come in with one that's someplace in the strike zone. Eventually we'll get better. We'll eventually come up with one that hits it out of the park. How long that will take. How much that will cost, I don't know, and in this whole thing, how do we bring society along, because we are reflecting you". I hope that the county will act swiftly, not evasively to protect our aquifers. It is also my hope that the county does not adopt compliant legislation and then ignore or overturn it when implementation becomes unpleasant, as has happened in the past. I am attaching a letter dealing with that kind of county behavior as it relates to the stormwater policies you adopted in Resolution 92-99 on November 4, 199 in response to a Hearings Board Compliance Order and which you now intend to ignore. Sincerely, Nancy Dorgan For People for a Liveable Community People for a Liveable Community PO Box 667 Port Townsend, WA 98368 November 15, 2002 To: Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners Re: MLA 02-241 MLA 02-329 — Glen Cove Commissioners: The August 21, 2002 Comprehensive Plan Amendment Docket DCD Staff Report and DSEIS stated: ■ "The current version of the Comprehensive Plan/UDC amendment also immediately adopts and enacts the most recent Department of Ecology manual for stormwater management, known formally as the "Washington Department of Ecology Stormwater Management Manual for Western Washington, 2001. " This amendatory language is found in the preamble paragraph of UDC Section 6.7. " [page 2-62] In an earlier comment letter, I lauded this aspect of the County's Glen Cove proposal. Therefore, at the November 13th Planning Commission meeting, I was extremely disappointed to hear DCD staff reverse that position and announce that the County did not intend to adopt the latest stormwater manual. The reason given, alas, was "high cost' to development. I understand the reversal to mean that County Public Works staff will not require current Best Management Practices when reviewing and approving stormwater management plans for future Glen Cove development applications. This course of action would be a serious, deliberate avoidance of Best Available Science, which is an important GMA environmental requirement. Such a decision would be ill-advised considering the BOCC's November 4, 1999 Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board Compliance Order Response, Comprehensive Plan Amendments Resolution 92-99, which adopted: ■ LNP 26.1 Require new development and redevelopment to comply with the standards of die l est edition of the Department of Ecology's Stormwater Manual for the Puget Sound Basin. I will be very curious to see how this issue will be dealt with by staff in the FSEIS and in the required Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law... of the final adoption ordinance. Sincerely, Nancy Dorgan For People for a Liveable Community __ 7q