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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11 Fox11/12/2019 Dept of Community Development - Title 18 Ordinance - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…1/2 Dept of Community Development - Title 18 Ordinance CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. A copy of my testimony, which I forgot to drop off: 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: - 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. Nicole Fox <foxnickel@gmail.com> Tue 11/5/2019 10:02 PM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>; 11/12/2019 Dept of Community Development - Title 18 Ordinance - Planning Commission Desk https://owa.co.jefferson.wa.us/owa/#viewmodel=ReadMessageItem&ItemID=AAMkAGM0ZTI0NjQ3LTE2OGItNGQzZi05MWNjLWE2NTE2NGZjMzFhN…2/2 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.