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Connie Gallant <cg@conniegallant.com >
Wednesday, January 06,20L612:13 PM
PCommissionDesk@cojefferson.wa.us; PlanComm@co jefferson.wa.us; Commissioners
Jefferson County
brinnongroup@gmail.com; Paul McCollum; Peter Bahls; OFCO; Josey Paul; Mark Rose;
Darlene Schanfald; Bob Sextro; peter guerrero
Comments: Pleasant Harbor Marina and Golf Resort LLC Master Planned Resort
Com ments-Bri n non-M PR-0105 16. pdf
Please find attached comments from Olympic Forest Coalition on the Pleasant Harbor Marina and Golf Resort
LLC Master Planned Resort proposal.
Thank you,
Connie Gallant
President
Olympic Forest Coalition
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lympic
Forest
Coalition
Promoting the protection, conservation and
restoration of natural forest ecosyrtems and their
procetset on the Olympic Peninsula, including fish
and wildlife habitat, and surrounding ecotystemt
January 5, 2016
To: Jefferson County Commissioners, Jefferson County Planning Gommission,
Jefferson County Department of Community Development.
We understand that the Pleasant Harbor Marina and Golf Resort LLC Master Planned Resort
proposal is under review for approval. We find it difficult to understand why the SEPA review
has not been completed for a project of such magnitude, when failing to do so places the county
under tremendous potential litigation burden. lt has been 15 years and it appears that we are
back at square one.
We find the FEIS inadequate in addressing the impacts of the project. We are in full agreement
with the Brinnon Group when they correctly show concern for adverse effects of higher taxes
and impact to our emergency services. Environmental impacts have not been properly assessed
and/or studied, especially for a project adjacent to the already unstable waters of Hood Canal.
Has the developer mitigated the economic and environmental damage from such a massive
resort development? lf so, has it been fully examined to determine its accuracy? Does the
current Planning Department have the capacity and manpower available for the researching and
factfinding on all the environmental claims made by the developer, in order to avoid any
potential litigation resulting from any errors or oversight?
We urge you to follow the process and allow an extension of the comment and review period of
the FEIS for a minimum of 60 days, as also requested by the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe -
after so many years of trying to make a decision on this proposal, another 60 days is a minimum
of what the public deserves to have the opportunity to fully review and comment.
Respectfully,
Connie Gallant
President
cc Paul McCollum, Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe
Peter Bahls, Northwest Watershed lnstitute
PO Box 461 o Quilcene, WA 98376-0461 o (360) 7'lO-7235
www.olympicforest.org o i nfo@olympicforest.org