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Jeanie Orr
Long Range Planning Clerk
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joyce and Alan Rudolph (mailto:battlepoint@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 3:37 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: Comments on Shoreline Master Program Update
Jefferson County Planning Commis ,
Dear Jefferson County Planning Commission,
Thank you for your time and attention for all your work on the Jefferson County Shorelines
Master Program update. Like so many county residents, clean water and healthy shorelines are
important to me and my family.
Protection of our shorelines is one of the most important ways to keep our beaches safe to
swim, our shellfish safe to eat, and our properties safe from erosion. Taking care with how
we develop our shorelines will help us save puget Sound. The draft shoreline master program
update will help us reach those goals, and I support its adoption. Some of the features of
the update I support are:
o The proposed shoreline environmental designations, including the ?natural designation?,
which will protect the county?s more sensitive shorelines as development occurs, and
?priority aquatic?, which will provide better protection to important salmon and shellfish
habitats.
o The policies and rules for ecological protection, which include buffers and setbacks to
protect buildings from flooding and erosion as well as protect sensitive habitats.
o The aquaculture provisions, including prohibitions on net pens, and finfish aquaculture
that uses herbicides, pesticides, antibiotics, fertilizers, genetically modified organisms,
or feed, and prohibition of GMOs
o The standards to ensure construction of bulkheads, shoreline armoring, docks, and
marinas reduce impacts to salmon and forage fish
o The new ?administrative conditional use? rules for some residential structures, such as
boathouses, will reduce costs to property owners, by eliminating the need for public
hearings, while ensuring environmental impacts are properly identified and mitigated.
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I support additional safeguards for development of nonconforming lots. The draft would exempt
development on undersized lots from meeting buffer and setback rules with only minimal review
by county staff. Adequate review is necessary to make sure environmental impacts are avoided
to the greatest extent possible. With as many as 3,588 undersized lots along Jefferson
County?s shorelines, between 33 to 66 miles of healthy shorelines could be developed without
proper county oversight. The county should require an administrative conditional use permit
for these nonconforming lots to ensure adequate review to address environmental impacts.
Once again, thank you to county staff and members of the County Planning Commission for you
attention on the SMP.
Joyce and Alan Rudolph
18973 Battle Point Rd
B.I., WA 98118
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