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Patty Charnas - Director
Jefferson County Department of Community Development
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Protesters stand outside the Jefferson County Courthouse on Tuesday before county commissioners and
the planning commission discussed the draft development agreement for a resort near Brinnon. (Jesse
Major/Peninsula Daily News)
Draft plan reviewed for proposed
Brinnon resort
ByJesse Major
Friday,January 19,2018 11:05am I NEWS COUNTY COMMISSION JEFFERSON COUNTY
PORT TOWNSEND - The Iefferson County commissioners and planning
commissioners took a look at a draft development agreement for the long-
planned resort in Brinnon this week.
The proposed Pleasant Harbor Resort, which would be on 252-acres on the
Black Point Peninsula z miles south of Brinnon, has been controversial
since it was first proposed in zoo6.
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The plan has been reduced for environmental and cultural concerns, said
Patricia Charnas, director of the county Department of Community
Development.
"The original Master Planned Resort shrunk from L,zoo [residential] units
to the 89o you see," she told commissioners Tuesday. ttThe golf course was
reduced from 18 holes to nine."
Charnas said there will be a public hearing, though a date hasn't been set.
Charnas recommended that when a public hearing is set, the comment
period be longer than usual. She suggested 6o days so that there is plenty o
time for public review of all documents and ample time to provide
comment.
One planning commission member questioned why the draft development
agreement allows 89o units when the planning commission had previously
agreed on about 56o units. That question wasn't answered.
Charnas said the county has worked with the developer - Statesman Corp.
of Calgary, Alberta - on provisions to ensure that wildlife resources are
not negatively impacted, to make sure water quality is monitored and that
high water quality is ensured. Other provisions recognize Native American
tribal treaty rights, she said.
The area of the proposed resort was previously developed as an RV park
with more than 5oo spaces. It now stands empty.
Though there has been work to mitigate the environmental impacts,
members of the Sierra Club and other organizations say there hasn't been
enough done to mitigate the negative effects of having a large resort on the
Hood Canal.
Several people stood outside the Iefferson County Courthouse on Tuesday
and protested the development.
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"While we understand the developers have made changes that mitigate the
impact of the development, such as reducing the golf course from 18 holes
to nine and lowering the number of proposed building units, these
important changes are not enough in order to lower the increased impact
on the land, water and wildlife," Cherri Mann, representing the Sierra
Club's North Olympic Group, said during public comment.
She said the Sierra CIub is concerned about sewage treatment, well
systems, the aquifer and the impact 4,1oo cars would have on the Hood
Canal.
Mann said there could be a potential increase in nitrogen problems and
dead zones - low-o)rygen areas - in the Hood Canal and that the club is
also concerned about shellfish beds.
Mann said the top concern is what the development would mean for Black
Point's kettle ponds, unique ponds formed by retreating glaciers which are
of cultural significance to area tribes.
((The geological, historical, cultural and - most importantly - the
environmental significance of the ponds, raises enough concern that the
Sierra Club believes it should not proceed as now planned," she said.
Charnas said the county met with representatives of the Port Gamble
S'Klallam and Skokomish tribes separately last week to discuss the draft
plan.
The Port Gamble S'Klallam expressed concern over the project's impacts to
shellfish and to areas with cultural significance, Charnas said.
The Skokomish and Port Gamble D'Klallam disagreed on what should be
done with the kettles, she said.
((The Skokomish think the way to preserve any cultural resources
associated with the kettles is to fill the kettles with water to protect the
resources," she said.
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((The Port Gamble S'Klallam tribe wishes the developer to keep them as
they are now."
The draft development agreement required the developer to preserve at
least one kettle and to consult with the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe to
come up with a kettle management plan that includes removing invasive
vegetation and installing educational signs that explain the significance of
the kettles to native people.
Reporter Jesse Major can be reached at36o-l+52-231+5, €tr. 56250, or at
jmaj or@ peninsuladailynews.com.
Patricia Charnas, director of the county Department of Community Development, discusses the draft
development agreement for a resort near Brinnon on Tuesday. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)
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