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cynthiakoan@gmail.com on behalf of Cynthia Koan < cynthia.koan@gmail.com >
Friday, February L2,201611:08 AM
Kathleen KIer; David Sullivan; PhilJohnson; pmorley@cojefferson.wa.us; Planning
Commission Desk; David Goldsmith; David Wayne Johnson; Gary Felder; Kevin Coker;
Lorna Smith; Mark Jochems; Matt Sircely; Richard Hull; Tom Brotherton; Tom Giske
FWD: My letter to the editor, PT LeaderSubject:
Dear Editor,
ln response to the Leader article of February 10,2016, "Commission wrestles with Brinnon resort
plan," I would offer the following:
The Brinnon/Pleasant Harbor Master Plan Resort (MPR) will be largest single land use decision in
Jefferson County since enactment of the Growth Management Act (GMA) in 1990.
At the tribe's request, the Jefferson County Department of Community Development (DCD) granted
Port Gamble S'klallam Tribe a sixty-day extension to the written comment period, ensuring
opportunity for them to study and submit comments concerning the MPR proposal. They have until
March 6,2016 to submit comments.
DCD made available the Final Supplemental Environmental lmpact Statement (FSEIS) for the
Brinnon/Pleasant Harbor MPR (296 pages plus 434 pages of exhibits) on December 141h,2015, just
before the winter holidays, with a public hearing in Brinnon held on January 6th, 2016. lt and other
documents related to this proposal are available on the county website.
The February 3rd meeting was the first opportunity for planning commissioners and staff to publicly
review questions raised in the public hearing in Brinnon, to seek additional materials and information,
and to voice concerns unearthed in their study of this complex proposal and its possible environment
effects.
[/any of our citizen planning commissioners are new and have not reviewed this proposal in the past.
With new information, new options, and a newly completed FSEIS, it is important we as a planning
commission and as a county take the time to get this right.
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As the commission wrestles with big questions to get to good answers, I don't yet know how I will
vote. I am proud that our planning commission, in all its diversity, has worked well together in the
past and I expect will continue to do so.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Koan, Chair
Jefferson County Planning Commission
cc:Phillip Morley, DCD Staff, and the Jefferson County Planning Commission
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