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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06 StoryPlease prioritize protecting quality of life in RR5 neighborhoods! CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. 8-18-20 Re: Board of County Commissioners addressing much needed cannabis zoning in 2021 Letter to: pcommissiondesk@co.jefferson.wa.us dsullivan@co.jefferson.wa.us Kate Dean: kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us Greg Brotherton: gbrotherton@co.jeferson.wa.us pmorley@co.jefferson.wa.us Lorna4Commissioner@gmail.com heidi4commissioner@gmail.com news@ptleader.com news@peninsuladailynews.com From: Bonnie Story Greengs, I wish to thank all who are reading this message. I write to you urgently from the heart. I am begging sincerely for your consideraon and prompt acon. I appreciate your me and aenon. Jefferson County residents are currently unprotected from having 10,000 square foot cannabis factories shoehorned right into our neighborhoods. This is terrifying! I may be accused of NIMBYism, but I wish this protecon IMMEDIATELY for ALL community lands zoned RR5 in my county. Please expedite this simple issue for handling as soon as possible! For the record, I am not at all opposed to cannabis producon, when it is situated correctly (not in neighborhoods). I care deeply about Jefferson County, and I know that you do too. Please read on, once again with my most sincere thanks. ~ Bonnie Story _____________ Take a regional view: Both Clallam and Kitsap counes have outlawed cannabis producon in RR5 neighborhoods. The documentaon and background study on why they did this is easily available. Currently Jefferson County, having not caught up yet somehow on this issue, has placed its residents in a vulnerable posion. Jefferson County currently offers "cheap dirt", by omission of governance, to profiteers looking to come in with no aachment to neighborhoods and no connecon to lives that would be disrupted and damaged by their factories squeezed right into neighborhoods. If you don't believe your own Jefferson County Planning Commission, please study the work done in Kitsap and Clallam counes to close the door on damaging their RR5 neighborhoods. Please, please take a few minutes and make a study of this, all info is easily available and sensible. Our neighboring counes have made efforts to protect their neighborhoods, why has Jefferson County not shown the same level of caring? Jefferson County is beer than this! Honor exisng land use decisions: Kicking the door open for drasc land-use changes, such as 10,000 square foot cannabis factories in neighborhoods, would ripple outward as a bell that can never be un-rung. Disrupve radical land use changes that would trigger an immediate cascade of lawsuits and e up courts are not appropriate at this (or any) me. Please consider "Stare decisis" for land use, including honoring original legal CC&R land use agreements. Blowing up CC&R's is just careless and callous. Jefferson County is blessed with abundant land for a wide variety of uses, when and where appropriate. There is no need to destroy neighborhoods. Protect property values: Many ordinary people, like yours truly, have most of their wealth and rerement prospects ed up in their homes. Damaging that should never be taken lightly, even in the best of mes. This is what shoehorning factories into neighborhoods does. The prospect of having one's principal saved wealth and rerement outlook damaged is terrifying. "The freedom to extend your fist ends at the p of my nose" should PLEASE be kept in mind when the folly of one person's profiteering "dream" cannabis project threatens an enre neighborhood of full-me residents, whose dream is to just live safely and quietly. As current financial challenges deepen over years ahead, especially for seniors, priority must be given to protecng the financial future of ordinary local people. This issue needs to be taken seriously as a responsibility of good government. Finish what was started: Please give the public some confidence that our local government will follow through on public concerns and stay on-point regardless of new distracons. Please, I beseech all of those reading this, take up this maer promptly and protect our neighborhoods! "Honor the voices that you asked to hear": When a hundred hours of impassioned verbal and wrien public tesmony has been given on an issue, please don't throw it away. Please see the aached comments and review these voices opposing industrial cannabis in RR5 neighborhoods, and honor them with appropriate acon. Public input from your constuents represents unpaid hours taken off of work, a lot of personal stress, and me away from family commitments. Your constuents have already spent tens of thousands of dollars on private aorneys to protect their right to quiet enjoyment of their homes against poorly sited cannabis factories. This is all in public record. PLEASE make sure the public knows that you are listening, and that you care. (Thank you Commissioner Brotherton for this quote.) Maximize money already spent: The Jefferson County Planning Commission has put together a perfectly edited version of the zoning change needed to protect RR5 neighborhoods from the threat of cannabis factories forever, just as neighboring counes have done already. Barely any more work needs to be done on this issue - what more is needed? The Planning Commission does not take their me to do this work without good reason. Commissioners, PLEASE harness the work they have already done for you, and leverage their me, energy and money already invested. No need for reinvenng the wheel, or for costly new studies, or new commissions. Please finish the job - we are inches from compleon right now. This pressing issue of cannabis factories that damage quality of life in RR5 neighborhoods is not going away. We sll care about our RR5 homes despite the severe distracons of COVID-19. Aer COVID is resolved, future generaons will appreciate the work you can do NOW to protect our rural quality of life here in Jefferson County! Let's get this loophole closed - YOU HAVE THE POWER. Thank you once again very sincerely, Bonnie Story Bonnie Story <bonnie@storyboardproductions.com> Tue 8/18/2020 3:40 PM To:Planning Commission Desk <PCommissionDesk@co.jefferson.wa.us>; David Sullivan <dsullivan@co.jefferson.wa.us>; Philip Morley <pmorley@co.jefferson.wa.us>; Lorna4Commissioner@gmail.com <Lorna4Commissioner@gmail.com>; heidi4commissioner@gmail.com <heidi4commissioner@gmail.com>; Leader newsroom <news@ptleader.com>; Kate Dean <KDean@co.jefferson.wa.us>; gbrotherton@co.jeferson.wa.us <gbrotherton@co.jeferson.wa.us>; news@peninsuladailynews.com <news@peninsuladailynews.com>; 293 Blueberry Hill Drive, Quilcene, WA 98376 360-302-0379 bonnie@storyboardproducons.com PS: Don't forget to review the aachments - voices that you need to hear, if you have not already! *********************************** Comment Summary 4-17-19 PC Hearing.pdf MLA19-00019 JCPC UDC MJ Regs 2-27-19.pdf Virus-free. www.avg.com