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Home My WebLink About07 Ball11/12/2019 Fwd: TRC - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…1/1 Fwd: TRC CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Hello Planning Commissioners, I am forwarding for your consideration some messages I sent to the BoCC regarding the Title 8 & 18 amendments nearly 2 years ago. I am going to send you a bunch of these messages, so hang onto your hats. I wish to clarify for you that I am now, and always have been, a gun owner. I support firearm training and safety. The land use I take issue with, as it pertains to this subject, is the impact this land use will have on surrounding areas, wherever it may be located in the county. Failure for the county to require basic safety features for such land use is irresponsible, at best, and destructive, dangerous, and negligent at worst. When proposing amendments to the county code I think you are obligated to consider some of these concerns and protect the residents from the safety hazards that are inherent in this proposed land use. Safety concerns to the residents and to the environment. We all know that the ballistics fired from guns can travel for several miles. Do you think it is reasonable to allow a land owner to jeopardize their neighbors like that with a commercial use? We are not talking about some neighborhood yahoo with a pea shooter, we are talking about a commercial use with countless trigger happy gunslingers. Not to mention military training, law enforcement and helicopters (as proposed). This is a heavy use proposal with massive impacts. Thank you for your consideration, Jean Ball ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:31 AM Subject: TRC To: J Ball Gnarley Dog Farm <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com>, <jeffbocc@co.jefferson.wa.us> Hello Commissioners and Staff, 40 acres is nowhere near a realistic parcel size for this activity. This is a delusional proposal. No, seriously, this must be a bad joke. 40 acres is a tiny parcel for this activity. I live about 10,000 feet away from this 40 acres and a tiny, low powered .22 bullet could get to my farm from that 40 acres. How many .22 bullets do you think those people will be blasting off? My guess would be very close to none. I think the real attraction will be high powered firearms and automatic weapons. Bullets from those high powered guns can not only reach my farm, but they can continue on for 4 more miles. Is 40 acres anywhere near large enough? If this land was in a geographical bowl (like Black Point Kettles), then ok, but it is not. I think an indoor firing range is a terrific idea and should be built in an industrially zoned location. I don't care if that location is in Jefferson County or not. We have enough access to gun ranges in this area already but we could use the economic development an indoor range would bring. Jean Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Tue 11/5/2019 11:01 AM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>; 11/12/2019 Forward message Title 8 & 18 - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…1/1 Forward message Title 8 & 18 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Copy of an email sent Feb, 6, 2018 Hello Commissioners and staff, Seriously? Explosives training in the woods of Quilcene? Now I know I must have bumped my head! I asked Mr D'Amico why he did not pursue building an indoor firing range and avoid all this trouble with the neighbors. His answer to me was "because I can't blow up cars indoors". This is not acceptable land use in Jefferson County. Explosives should not be an allowed or permittable land use, not ever, not under any conditions, not in any location (except on a military base) in this county. I grew up near a granite quarry and I am still traumatized by the blasts. We had chunks of rock flying through our yard that tormented both farmer and livestock, the ground trembled and our foundations cracked. I did not buy land in Quilcene to be tortured by noise pollution from explosions or fear of stray bullets whizzing through my hair. Explosives MUST NOT be allowed. Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Tue 11/5/2019 11:05 AM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>; 11/12/2019 Fwd: TRC - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…1/2 Fwd: TRC CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:21 AM Subject: TRC To: J Ball Gnarley Dog Farm <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com>, <jeffbocc@co.jefferson.wa.us> Good Day Commissioners and Staff, The Washington State Noise Control Act has some relevant things to say about our issue in Quil. RCW 70.107 addresses both noise as a whole and recreational shooting exemptions. 70.107.010 Purpose. The legislature finds that inadequately controlled noise adversely affects the health, safety and welfare of the people, the value of property, and the quality of the environment. Antinoise measures of the past have not adequately protected against the invasion of these interests by noise. There is a need, therefore, for an expansion of efforts statewide directed toward the abatement and control of noise, considering the social and economic impact upon the community and the state. I couln't agree more. There is great wisdom to be found in the tomes of our state's laws. A government by, for and of the people, right? This RCW is precisely the sort of law that citizens appreciate and support. This law is a protection of the people against the tyranny of the minority. It is the protections against the IMPACTS imposed upon the people which will become the legacies of our public servants. The FIrst Amendment in the Bill of Rights grants free speech but it does not shield usurpers who abuse the protections. Our Noise Control Act specifies an exemptions OR limited regulations for "recreational shooting" and the authority given to local government in consideration of policies. 70.107.080 Exemptions. The department shall, in the exercise of rule-making power under this chapter, provide exemptions or specially limited regulations relating to recreational shooting and emergency or law enforcement equipment where appropriate in the interests of public safety. Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Tue 11/5/2019 11:07 AM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>; 11/12/2019 Fwd: TRC - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…2/2 The department in the development of rules under this chapter, shall consult and take into consideration the land use policies and programs of local government. That says "recreational shooting" may be subjected to exemptions OR limited regulations in the interest of public safety. It also says local government has some weight to determine what that means. The citizens of Jefferson County need our elected representatives to stand firm against the adverse effects of noise on the health, safety and welfare of the people, the property values and environmental quality. Jean 11/12/2019 Fwd: Assault Rifles and Land Use in JeffCo - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…1/1 Fwd: Assault Rifles and Land Use in JeffCo CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:17 PM Subject: Assault Rifles and Land Use in JeffCo To: J Ball Gnarley Dog Farm <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com>, jeffbocc <jeffbocc@co.jefferson.wa.us> Hello Commissioners and Staff, I grew up with guns. I was raised by an Army Ranger who was an exceptional marksman. I began learning safe handling of firearms at a very young age. In high school, many of us would bring our rifles to school (and casually display them in our truck window racks) and go hunting or target practice after school. We never thought a thing of it and nobody ever shot at kids or pointed guns at other people. I am a Second Amendment rights advocate. That said, the sacred and monumental First Amendment (to which we owe an eternal debt) is not without limitations and neither should the Second Amendment be free of reasonable limitations. I might add that "the pen is mightier than the sword" and the Second Amendment would be nothing without the First Amendment's grace and strength. My friends and I had access to all manner of firearms in our youth but nobody EVER hunted with assault rifles. Not once. The only thing we did with assault riffles was horse around making trick shots for fun. I do not think assault rifles are a reasonable firearm to expect Second Amendment protections for. If we ban assault rifles, I have no objection and I wonder why it took so long to get it done. These machines are designed for a single purpose... to kill people in war time. While I am at it, these tools of war should also not be allowed in the hands of law enforcement. Cops should not be allowed these excessively lethal weapons to use against citizens. Again, these machines are designed for a single purpose...to kill people in war time. I would like you to consider the proposed "gun range" in Quil (and any other gun range in JeffCo) and their use of firearms. I would like our county to implement a policy to disallow ANY and ALL firearms which become illegal. If our country or our state outlaw any firearm, I would like to know that Jefferson County will disallow the use of outlawed firearms at any location within the county. I do not want any of our firing ranges to become a hotspot for the discharge of banned firearms. Thank you for your consideration, Jean Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Tue 11/5/2019 11:09 AM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>; 11/12/2019 Fwd: Draft ordinance comments - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…1/1 Fwd: Draft ordinance comments CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 4:25 PM Subject: Draft ordinance comments To: <jeffbocc@co.jefferson.wa.us> 10/26/2018 Comments on Draft Ordinance for Commercial Shooting Facilities The moratorium states a couple whereas clauses that resonate with me. For example: 1)The “Washington Constitution confers upon the county legislative authorities the police power to adopt regulations necessary to protect the health, safety, and well-being of its residents...”, 2)“a regulation is reasonable if it promotes public safety, health, or welfare...”, 3)”due to the amount of land in JeffCo owned by the federal and state gov’ts, areas of protected shorelines, and limited water and septic capacity in other areas of JeffCo, there are limited areas where residents can live”, 4)”...the county has an interest in ensuring the compatibility of commercial shooting facilities with their surroundings” 5)”...protect(s) the environment” and “ensure compatibility with neighboring land use”. That says to me that the BoCC acknowledges we have a very limited capacity for residential opportunities in our beloved county. It also says to me that the BoCC acknowledges it is the legislative authority which is responsible to protect residential land, protect the environment, and ensure compatible land uses. Sounds to me like this ordinance needs to avoid creating new IMPACTS to residential property owners in rural Jefferson County. Are training exercises with helicopters and militarized training and car bombs and night training compatible with rural residential land uses? Does not the military have more than enough public lands available to them to perform their own training? Are not federal lands already sanctioned for military activities? Do we really consider training with aircraft for commercial purposes to be a reasonable impact or “compatible use” on our neighbors? Jean Ball Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Tue 11/5/2019 11:11 AM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>; 11/12/2019 Fwd: Commercial shooting facilities 11.16.2018 r... - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…1/1 Fwd: Commercial shooting facilities 11.16.2018 revised 11.05.2019 - Invitation to edit CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: J Ball (via Google Docs) <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Subject: Commercial shooting facilities 11.16.2018 revised 11.05.2019 To: gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com has invited you to edit the following document: Commercial shooting facilities 11.16.2018 revised 11.05.2019 Open in Docs Google Docs: Create and edit documents online. Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA You have received this email because someone shared a document with you from Google Docs. Log o for Google Docs Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Tue 11/5/2019 11:29 AM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>; 11/12/2019 Fwd: small scale recreational and tourist uses - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…1/1 Fwd: small scale recreational and tourist uses CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:14 PM Subject: small scale recreational and tourist uses To: J Ball Gnarley Dog Farm <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com>, jeffbocc <jeffbocc@co.jefferson.wa.us> Hello Commissioners and Staff, We have not gotten it right. We tried, but it is more convoluted and confusing now than it was when we started. Despite our best efforts, this thing is a mess. We were better off with the small scale recreational and tourist use than we are with whatever this monster has become. Correct is better than fast. It is important to get this thing right. IT WILL OUTLIVE US ALL. It will have dire consequences for our community. We need to get it right. JCSA is caught in the crosshairs, an unintended consequence of this process. We have no siting criteria for new outdoor shooting facilities. All my neighbors are upset, the members of JCSA are upset, the ONLY one who is happy is the elephant in the room. That should tell us all something. The overwhelming sentiments expressed at all these hearings has been to protect JCSA and to protect communities. The overwhelming sentiment has NOT been to build large scale outdoor shooting facilities. Well, the solution is simple... scrap all these superfluous code amendments and stick with small scale recreational and tourist uses. IF Jefferson County decides to amend our land use allowances in the future then siting criteria will need to be established, but for now, that is not where we, THE PEOPLE, are. Please be leaders! We did not elect you to be followers. We elected you to do the right thing and stand up to pressure. Jean Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Tue 11/5/2019 11:31 AM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>; 11/12/2019 It’s not just the noise - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…1/1 It’s not just the noise CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Title 8 & 18 review. Written last week. Yes, noise is a big driver. However, environmental degradation is equally important. We are talking about one of the few lakes in JeffCo and the headwaters of some of the most intact salmonid habitat in the country. Lead poisoning is a major concern, sediment and human waste in waters of the state is a concern. Kitsap County managed to get setbacks into their code, I see no reason why JeffCo would not insist on that minimum standard. Yes, I know these rules must apply to all businesses equally, and I think all our lakes should be protected. We have so few lakes in JeffCo and we are bordered on 3 sides by salmon habitat which must be protected. Not to mention that our lakes are used for other recreational purposes that would be severely impacted by commercial shooting facilities on their shores. Who wants to fish or swim next to a shooting range? I swim almost daily during summer months in local lakes, mainly Tarboo Lake, and that would come to a screeching halt if there is a gun range on its banks. I will not be able to take my canoe there to relax or fly fish in the quiet solitude of nature or commune with other citizens seeking the same kind of peaceful enjoyment of our natural world. I would not be able to walk my dogs on the trails around our pristine lakes if there were gun ranges sited nearby. I will stop visiting these areas to photograph nature and write about life in this beautiful place to share with those less fortunate than we are to live in places like this. My livestock and dogs flip out when they hear the neighbors shooting. Hell, I shot a rooster today (he was molesting hens) and my dogs hid for hours. These are Great Pyrenees, not some sissy dogs, they will take on all the apex predators which is their main function on my farm. One of my dogs broke down the back door and went in the house to hide under the bed and this is a dog that never goes in the house unless I drag her inside. I was not using a shotgun or even a real rifle when I hunted that rooster today, it was a pellet gun that had my 4 Pyrenees shaking in their boots. The sound from that rifle is quiet, not a boom, and it was not used with monotonous repetition. This thing is a single shot and takes time to reload and pump up and I’m a decent shot so it only took one try to kill that rooster. I’m a gun owner and I always have been. This is not a gun issue. This is an impact issue. This is about the promise JeffCo made to landowners when they bought their land. This is about preventing one neighbor from negatively impacting another. If my actions do not impact my neighbors or the environment then there should be no issue. When my actions impact the neighbors or the environment then it’s time for the county to step in. This is not a Second Amendment issue, although they will try to tell you that’s the only thing that matters. The Second Amendment is not more important than the First Amendment, but the single-issue voters would have you believe it is. The thing about the Constitution is that we all have rights and your rights stop where mine begin. Thank you for your careful and well informed deliberations on this complicated issue. Kind regards, Jean Ball Jean Ball <gnarleydogfarm@gmail.com> Tue 11/5/2019 1:25 PM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>;