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From: Marilyn Showalter <marilyn.showalter@gmail.com>L� i i
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 9:52 AM
To: Donna Frostholm; Philip Hunsucker
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Subject: Urging the County to Request Clarificationp �ck
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Hello, Donna,
Attached is a letter urging the County to ask for clarification of what constitutes the application in MLA19-0036.
Thank you --Marilyn
Marilyn Showalter
1596 Shine Rd
Port Ludlow, WA 98365
(360) 259-1700 (cell)
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PORT LUDLOW, WA 98365 marilyn.showalter@gmail,com
360-259-1700 (cell)
October 21, 2019
Donna Frostholm, Associate Planner
Jefferson County Department of Community Development
621 Sheridan Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Sent by Email
Dear Ms Frostholm:
Re: Confusion Over What Constitutes Application MLA 19-00036
I thank you and your colleagues for promptly posting, Log Item 20 in the above -captioned case.
Before you determine whether the application is "complete," I hope you (and everyone else) can
first determine what actually constitutes the application. As it stands now, many hundreds of
pages have been filed. Some are duplicates, some are "addendums," some are "revisions" and
some are "replacements."
There is no clarity, however, as to what has been stricken from the application. A reader who
begins at the beginning of the log items will read for a long time before discovering that
previously read material has purportedly been modified, and even then, it will be a matter of
interpretation as to what is and isn't intended to be deleted from the application—leading to the
possibility that we readers are literally "not all on the same page."
To give but one example, Log Item 20 (as well as Log Item 1) contains a 2013 Biological
Evaluation document at page 34 of 464. Fifty pages later, at page 83 of 464, there is an
Addendum to the just -mentioned Biological Evaluation which contains, e.g., "Revisions to
Project Description." If what follows is meant to substitute for all or certain pages or certain
portions of pages of the original Biological Evaluation, then the applicant should submit, lined
through or crossed out, those pages or portions of the original Biological Evaluation that it no
longer intends to assert. The reader should not have to try belatedly to figure this out, and there
is risk of misinterpretation in doing so.
Ltr't6 Donna Frostholm
MLA 19-00036, October 22, 2019
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There are many ways to solve this problem, but here is one method. Ask the applicant to:
State whether the whole of the application is now contained within Log Item 20. If not,
then,
2. State whether Log Item 1 (and any other item) is still intended to be part of the
application. If yes, then state which documents, including page numbers, remain part of
the application—not including documents that have been wholly copied into Log Item
20.
Within whatever has survived, including Log Item 20, list any whole pages that should be
stricken, i.e., pages that a reader can totally disregard (because, for example a later page
replaces it).
4. Within the now -surviving pages, if there are any paragraphs, sentences, words, figures, or
charts that are not wholly what the applicant considers to be currently part of the
application, submit that page to the county showing the inoperative material lined
through with a black pen or some other indication that instructs the reader to disregard it.
(It would also be helpful. to site to any later log item and page numbers that have replaced
it.) A packet of the single revised pages could then be submitted as a new log item, and a
reader could take those pagesphysically, if not electronically, unfortunately—and
insert them as replacements in the appropriate spots.
If these suggestions are undertaken, a reader can read through the intended application, knowing
that every page accurately expresses the application.
(Also, now that Log Item 20 has been paginated, it would also be kind to everyone if the
applicant provided a table of contents to it.)
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
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Marilyn Showalter
1596 Shine Rd
Port Ludlow, WA 98365
Cc: Phil Hunsucker