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JD Dowd <dowdjd@yahoo.com>
Thursday, January 21,2016l-:19 PM
dwjo h nson @co jefferson.wa. us
Brinnon MPR letters (2)
DCD MPR.doc; MPR DCD.doc
Please see (2) attached letters regarding the Brinnon MPR.
Hard copies with signatures were mailed to DCD, as well.
Thank you.
John and Dalila Dowd
Brinnon
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Date: January ll,2016
To:
Re:
Department of Community Development, Jefferson County, WA
MPR, Brinnon, WA
I have been a Brinnon resident for over 30 years and am a proponent of the Pleasant Harbor
Master Planned Resort since its inception. I am also an original member of the Brinnon Sub-
Area Plan, which paved the way for such a plan in my community.
I attended another DCD hearing ( 1 -6- 1 6) at the Brinnon School only to hear more discouraging
reasons for delaying a project that has been prevented from progressing due to demands from
Jefferson County to comply with new or revised regulations and redundant environmental
studies. Meanwhile, our county has suffered economical decline due to a lack of revenue
because new businesses have been turned away and old businesses have closed their doors or
moved to counties with less red tape or near impossible regulations in which to comply.
Reasonable goveming boards that consider the wellbeing of their constituents would do
anything in their power to make the communities for which they are responsible more livable.
Unfortunately, Jefferson County government is not one. Over the years, Jefferson County
employees have been reduced in days and hours due to the lack of revenue, which is the result
of its own rules and regulations! Perhaps if more businesses were allowed to grow and prosper,
Jefferson County would be able to reduce the time and money it takes to prevent progress and
make the necessary revenue to keep its employees fully staffed to serve the public. It really is a
simple lesson of economics that I hope the DCD and our county commissioners understand
when making decisions regarding the process of the much-needed MPR development in
Brinnon. The arguments in favor out-weigh the negative.
Please consider wisely for the future of our communities and make a quick and positive
decision to allow this project to finally come to fruition. We cannot afford to delay this any
longer.
Thank you,
Dalila Dowd
P. O. Box 142
Brinnon, WA
Date: January ll,2016
Department of Community Development, Jefferson County, WA
MPR, Brinnon, WA
To:
Re:
When I moved to Brinnon over thirry years ago, I was employed as a truck driver for
a logging company. Logging is what built Brinnon and was the main source of
employment for decades. As the timber related jobs were drying up the community
changed from working families to largely a retirement community. The saw ship on
Corey Lane closed in the 1980's and is now a medical marijuana shop. I finished out
the last 27 years of my working career employed by Jefferson County and am now
retired. With the job market in Brinnon all but dried up, the opportunities for
employment of the young people in the community could finally come back with the
completion of the Pleasant Harbor Marina and Golf Resort. I do think it would be
more successful as a destination resort if it were an 1S-hole rather than a 9-hole golf
course. I have been following the proposed Master Planned Resort process since its
inception, attending every meeting. The issues regarding the aquifer, water runoff,
etc. have been studied and addressed. I hear the opponents of the resort bringing up
these studied and addressed issues over and over. There has been a form of
development on the Black Point site for decades. The proposed MPR is the best
answer for cleaning up the property while benefiting the Brinnon and Jefferson
County economic and employment issues. I fear that if the Resort does not come to
fruition, others will eventually develop the Black Point property and there will
eventually be homes on five-acre lots with multiple wells tapped into the aquifer and
septic systems close to Pleasant Harbor without an overall plan to address the runoff
issue for the property in its entirety. A golf resort would address economic and
employment issues, and fits well with Brinnon, which is primarily a tourist oriented
retirement community. For these reasons I urge you to allow the Pleasant Harbor
Master Planned Resort to move forward without any more delays.
John Dowd
P. O. Box 142
Brinnon, WA