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Home My WebLink About44- ADDITIONAL COMMUNICATIONSJune 28, 2022 POMONA WOODS LLC PO BOX 145 PORT HADLOCK WA 98339-0145 RE:SITE ADDRESS: OAK BAY RD CASE #: MLA21-00066 JEFFERSON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 621 Sheridan Street | Port Townsend, WA 98368 360-379-4450 | email: dcd@co.jefferson.wa.us www.co.jefferson.wa.us/commdevelopment Dear POMONA WOODS LLC: The Department of Community Development is in the process of reviewing your application. The following information is needed to continue review of your project. 1.SITE VISIT: The DCD Staff Biologist and assigned project planner (Ms. Hunt) would like to conduct a site visit on Wednesday, July 13th at 1:30 PM to review the wetland areas identified in the 2022 Critical Areas Report and the proposed new road and road approach locations. Please let the assigned planner know as soon as possible if the applicant and hired biologist will be available at the proposed date and time. 2.EXISTING ROAD APPROACH: According to the revised site plan (submitted on June 17th, 2022), the applicant is proposing a new road approach and road location adjacent to Oak Bay Road. What is the applicant planning to do with the existing gravel road approach area? Will the existing road approach be removed and re- planted or used for another purpose? If removal is proposed, when will the existing road approach be removed? 3.STORMWATER: The applicant has identified new areas of proposed disturbance (associated with the adjusted road approach and road) on the revised site plan. In addition, the road width shown on the revised site plan is approximately 5 feet larger than the road width shown on the site plan approved on March 2, 2022. Please update the Stormwater Calculation Worksheet accounting for all new areas of land disturbance and impervious surface. If any ground disturbance has occurred outside of the areas shown on the March 2, 2022 approved site plan , please make sure the disturbance is accounted for in the total land disturbance calculation. 4.SITE PLAN: The applicant has identified on Figure 3 (p. 28 of 122) in the Critical Areas Report, prepared by Wet.land LCC on June 17, 2022, new road and road approach areas. Does Figure 3 also show the total area of disturbance for construction of the road? If not, please revise Figure 3 or the revised site plan accounting for all proposed areas of disturbance associated with clearing and construction limits. Please also identify the following areas on Figure 3 of the Critical Areas Report: • Where will excavated soils be stockpiled? • Where will heavy equipment be staged during the night? • Total area of disturbance for septic installation • Will the applicant be employing silt fencing or orange construction barrier fencing around nearby stream and wetland buffers to ensure no net loss of ecological function? The answers to these questions will help determine potential impacts to wetland or stream buffers. Exhibit 44 Exhibit 44 Page 0560 Please submit the above information to the Department of Community Development within 90 days of the date of this letter which would be 9/26/2022. Please call 360-379-4450 to speak with the assigned planner if you have any questions. Sincerely, _____________________________________ Department of Community Development Staff Amanda Hunt Exhibit 44 Page 0561 Ann Burkhart Pomona Woods PO Box 145 Port Hadlock, WA 98339-0145 Pomonawoods@gmail.com 206-480-8467 July 7, 2022 Amanda Hunt Department of Community Development 621 Sheridan Street Port Townsend, WA 98368 Re: CASE #: MLA21-00066 Dear Amanda In response to the questions in your July 28, 2022 letter the Pomona Woods team has prepared the following responses in blue. 1. SITE VISIT: The DCD Staff Biologist and assigned project planner (Ms. Hunt) would like to conduct a site visit on Wednesday, July 13th at 1:30 PM to review the wetland areas identified in the 2022 Critical Areas Report and the proposed new road and road approach locations. Please let the assigned planner know as soon as possible if the applicant and hired biologist will be available at the proposed date and time. Completed 2. EXISTING ROAD APPROACH: According to the revised site plan (submitted on June 17th, 2022), the applicant is proposing a new road approach and road location adjacent to Oak Bay Road. What is the applicant planning to do with the existing gravel road approach area? Will the existing road approach be removed and re- planted or used for another purpose? If removal is proposed, when will the existing road approach be removed. The existing gravel road approach will be partially removed, replaced and regraded to blend in with the topography and side slopes of the new driveway. The driveway has been designed by a professional engineer to conform to all of the requirements of the previously issued Access Permit (#RAP2021-00068) and to avoid the wetland and wetland buffer. Access Permit conditions that required the driveway entry to be partially relocated (shifted to the north) include Condition 1 requiring a 35-foot approach radius and a 10-foot separation between the driveway and the County’s culvert running under Oak Bay Road at mile post 2.997. The gravel area and any disturbed areas will receive proper erosion control, at least 1 foot of topsoil from the new road cut and native vegetation (see attached revised design indicating planting of native vegetation in the removed portion of the driveway, not hydroseed). More detail can be found in the CAR v3. The existing road approach will be partially removed and replaced during construction of the proposed driveway. 3. STORMWATER: The applicant has identified new areas of proposed disturbance (associated with the adjusted road approach and road) on the revised site plan. In addition, the road width shown on the revised site plan is approximately 5 feet larger than the road width shown on the site plan approved on March 2, 2022. Please update the Stormwater Calculation Worksheet accounting for all new Exhibit 44 Page 0562 areas of land disturbance and impervious surface. If any ground disturbance has occurred outside of the areas shown on the March 2, 2022 approved site plan, please make sure the disturbance is accounted for in the total land disturbance calculation. Attached 4. SITE PLAN: The applicant has identified on Figure 3 (p. 28 of 122) in the Critical Areas Report, prepared by Wet.land LCC on June 17, 2022, new road and road approach areas. Does Figure 3 also show the total area of disturbance for construction of the road? If not, please revise Figure 3 or the revised site plan accounting for all proposed areas of disturbance associated with clearing and construction limits. Please also identify the following areas on Figure 3 of the Critical Areas Report: Figure 3 illustrates the areas of disturbance for the first section of driveway from Oak Bay Road as indicated by the limits of the proposed contours. No other area of disturbance is near the wetland or its buffer. In order to account for all areas of disturbance for the entire driveway, the driveway design would need to be completed to a 90% level. The limits of disturbance for the driveway construction is dependent upon the horizontal and vertical driveway alignment, which establishes the limits of cut and fill. The total area of disturbance will be provided in connection with construction permit applications. • Where will excavated soils be stockpiled? Excavated soils for the build will be stockpiled to the West or North of the build site and covered, away from neighbors or critical areas. • Where will heavy equipment be staged during the night? Heavy Equipment will be staged near the parking area, well away from neighbor properties • Total area of disturbance for septic installation? 6000 sf drainfield, 1300 sf tanks / treatment, and 1400 sf associated piping / sewage transport. The tanks are in the immediate area of the building so may overlap with other calculations. • Will the applicant be employing silt fencing or orange construction barrier fencing around nearby stream and wetland buffers to ensure no net loss of ecological function? Yes, the final driveway design drawings associated with construction permits will include an erosion control plan which illustrates the limits of construction and wetland/erosion protection measures. Orange silt fence will be indicated on the drawings to provide for both erosion control and protection of natural resources outside of the construction limits, including the wetland buffer and stream. Exhibit 44 Page 0563 Please let me know if there are any further questions. Best regards, Ann Burkhart Ann Burkhart Owner, Pomona Woods Exhibit 44 Page 0564