HomeMy WebLinkAbout022Dear Mr. David Wayne Johnson
I am writing to you as one of the boaters, apart of the community of boaters, who
moor their boats at Pleasant Harbor Marina. Furthermore, as that community divides
between slip owners and slip renters, I number among the latter. Therefore—my point of
view is that of the slip renter, and this may differ at times from the slip owner. The
wants, needs, and desires of the slip renters, we may hope, while fairly given less weight
in the decision making process than those more heavily invested in the Marina (slip
owners and marina owners) still deserve to be heard. The following is my personal
history as an out of state slip renter at Pleasant Harbor Marina. First of all, I should
mention that I have invested, and I continue to invest in Pleasant Harbor Marina and the
county as a whole. My expenditures include not only monthly moorage fees, but also
annual or bi-annual boat haul out at port Townsend the hiring of a local diver to do
bottom cleaning, purchasing of fuel and provisions, as well as other miscellaneous
expenditures such as boat parts. This is not even considering the money we spend in
shops and restaurants, both locally and in port Townsend.
We have been mooring in pleasant harbor Marina for 10 years. Previously, we
moored our boat in the south sound area, at three different Marinas. I include this last
detail not without reason; as, we are quite knowledgeable about marinas. For us—and
here you should hear the sound of your client, your consumer speaking to you the
choice of a marina is based on two simple things: location and amenities. So when it
comes to proposed changes for those amenities: the removal of access to the head of the
dock, the relocation of parking to a site at a further distance from the marina, the new
added requirement to shuttle ourselves and our provisions to and from our cars and boats
via shuttle car.... we as longtime Pleasant Harbor boaters are concerned at changes we
deem detrimental to boater services. We, as slip renters, would urge you not to make the
proposed changes to the marina. I repeat. It is our most earnest desire that the developer
not move forward with the current plans, but instead reconfigure those plans to create a
new marina where the interests of the boaters (slip renters and owners) and the marina
owners are realigned. Should the proposed changes move forward as currently laid out,
despite our protests, then I regret to inform you that our family will be leaving Pleasant
Harbor Marina.
Sincerely and regrettably,
Steven J. Webber
22040 SW Augusta Ln.
Hillsboro Or 97123