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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:44 AM
Michelle McConnell
FW: Comments on Shoreline Master Program Update
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Jeanie Orr
Long Range Planning Clerk
Dept of Community Development
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Shock [mailto:sailboi@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday~ January 16~ 2009 8:46 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: Comments on Shoreline Master Program Update
Jefferson County Planning Commis ~
Dear Jefferson County Planning Commission~
Dear Planners
As a tax paying riverfront property owner~ I should have a much greater say in this
deliberation than people from outside the county - what you do here directly effects myself
and the residents of Quilcene and Brinnon - and our posterity.
Having gone through the existing process for building permits recently~ both on our
Dosewallips property and another Coyle property which has a wetland - I have experienced the
controls~ regulations and processes first hand.
I can tell you that the processes are already overprotective ~ time consuming and expensive.
Speaking as a taxpaying user of the existing system~ a scientist and an environmentaly
conscious organic gardener - I can tell you that the overprotection and the manner of it's
administration are killing rural Jefferson County's economic future.
Regulators chosen by the DCD are often seen by taxpaying landowners are overly restrictive~
and are rarely giving benefit of any doubt in grey areas - to the taxpayer.
I would remind you folks~ that economic hardship is the standard of rural Jefferson County
residents already. There is no excuse at all~ for Jefferson County residents to have to
travel to Kitsap and Clallam for shopping and employment.
It is unacceptable~ and a human rights violation~ that elements within Port Townsend feather
their own economic nest by qwashing development elsewhere in the County. This element have
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used overly protective regulation to enhance the PT UGA by not allowing economic competition
to flourish.
The only "industry" allowed outside PT is home construction. For this home construction we
are forced to use Canadian timber products. (just check Carls and Hadlock - all lumber comes
from Northern BC on big diesel trucks). Additionally, home construction is constantly under
attack by regulators - making it increasingly unaffordable. Furthermore Jefferson County no
longer allows affordable sized rural properties to be subdivided.
So the only remaining "industry", which is homebuilding, is going away. That is the last
bastion of possible employment for rural families, who are being forced out now - or onto
welfare. What is left for rural areas is 20 acre parcels that wealty retirees are the only
possible persons, who can afford to be there.
What I am laying at you feet is a story of hardship and oppression that is the product of
special interest groups controlling the political processes of Jefferson County. These
interest groups are frequently from outside this county!!
More rigid regulation is not acceptable to those who are it's victims!!
Respectfully
Ken Shock
PO Box 234
Brinnon
796-4234
http://brinnonprosperitv.org
Ken Shock
132 Mossy Lane
Brinnon, WA 98320
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