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Title 18 Ordnance
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Planning Commission Members,
My wife & I live on Eaglemount Road near the Fox family. As we live on a ridge-top, we are fully impacted by noisy activity in the area. We
agree completely with the attached speech which Nicole Fox will deliver tonight. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Timothy R. & Suzanne M. Green
3744 Eaglemount Road
Port Townsend, WA
Begin forwarded message:
From: Nicole Fox <foxnickel@gmail.com>
Date: November 5, 2019 at 2:01:34 PM PST
To: Nicole Fox <foxnickel@gmail.com>, timgreen3744@yahoo.com
Subject: Final Draft of Speech for tonight
Thank you, members of the planning commission, for listening to our
comments.
I have lived on Eaglemount Road for 15 years. The “rural character” of my
community has been consistent. We are predominantly peaceful with
limited, occasional loud noises from gunfire and forestry.
We do not have the sounds of the city to mask noises and our
topography, while beautiful, is also great at carrying loud sounds.
As a result, my community must share our peace and quiet as we try to be
good neighbors to each other while expecting to be treated in a
reasonable way.
I would want the same considerations for a commercial outdoor shooting
range:
Timothy Green <timgreen3744@yahoo.com>
Tue 11/5/2019 3:05 PM
To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>;
11/12/2019 Title 18 Ordnance - Planning Commission Desk
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- Jefferson County's rural peacefulness is a valuable asset to our local
economy and to our individual enjoyment of our private property
- therefore reasonable ordinances must be in place to protect our rural
character and mitigate the negative impacts of an outdoor shooting range
How does our County handle sharing something as fragile as “peace and
quiet” with an outdoor shooting range? Clearly with some compromises -
but specifically by creating an expectation of protected, predictable
daytime peace.
The State regulations allow gunfire from authorized shooting ranges from
7am to 10pm, every day of the year. This timeframe is not a reasonable
sharing of rural peace - and I think most people would agree with that.
The county can create in its ordinances a more reasonable timeframe
because there is a rational basis for doing so.
We would not want the County to appear arbitrary about what parts of its
rural communities are worthy or not worthy of having reasonable
protections of their rural character.
The county has, in fact, already made a decision on a timeframe for
gunfire noise with the Sportsman's Association:
All Mondays are quiet … One Sunday per month is quiet
Gunfire starts at 10am and is finished by either 5pm or 7pm, or sunset, if
that is earlier.
The Sportsman's hours go a fair way towards addressing the undesirable
possibility of gunfire pounding away into those hours many of us prize
the most: morning quiet, evening relaxation, and peaceful outdoor family
time.
Predictable peace is not a source of liability for Jefferson County - it is
a path of neighborly compromise for those who must share their peace
and quiet with an outdoor shooting range.