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NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
June 4, 2018 Phillip Morley, County Administrator 360-385-9100
Patty Charnas, Director, Community Development
360-379-4493
JEFFERSON COUNTY APPROVES PLEASANT HARBOR MASTER PLANNED RESORT DEVELOPMENT
REGULATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEEMENT
On Monday, June 4, 2018, the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt an
Ordinance providing development regulations and voted unanimously to adopt a separate Ordinance to
enter into a development agreement for the Pleasant Harbor Master Planned Resort located on the
Black Point Peninsula in the community of Brinnon. The Board’s action completes many years of public
process and consultations with area tribes on the redevelopment of the former NACO Campground on
Black Point.
A key requirement of both the development regulations and of the development agreement is to show
compliance with a 2008 Ordinance that approved changing the land use designation from rural
residential to master planned resort (MPR). That 2008 Ordinance contained specific conditions regarding
public services, environmental protections and other aspects that were required for any continued
planning and development of the site.
The Pleasant Harbor MPR (also referred to as the Brinnon MPR) was studied and analyzed in two
environmental impact statements (EISs). One EIS, published in 2007, supplied the Board with
information to assist their designating the MPR in 2008. A second, supplemental EIS, published in 2015.
reported on a preferred development alternative of up to 890 units with numerous mitigation
requirements covering stormwater management, water quality and shellfish protection, public services
agreements and traffic mitigation. In that 2015 EIS was also published draft development regulations
and a draft development agreement which, after substantial additional staff work and consultations
with area tribes, is what the Board of Commissioners approved today.
“We believe that staff and the developer have satisfied our concerns and our requirements to ensure
that the MPR is developed in an environmentally sound, community supportive way’” said David
Sullivan, Board Chair. “I am confident that the time we took to carefully craft regulations and to carefully
negotiate a development agreement has been worthwhile.”
The recently approved Pleasant Harbor Master Planned Resort development regulations and
development agreement are viewable on the Jefferson County Department of Community Development
web page under Project Links at http://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/727/Pleasant-Harbor-Master-Planned-
Resort
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