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From: Marilyn Lewis [mclewis@cablespeed.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 24,200912:15 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: Draft shoreline master plan
Dear Jefferson County Commissioners:
Please amend the draft shoreline master plan to prohibit intensive industrial, commercial and residential uses
on Jefferson County shorelines.
I understand and respect the need to balance environmental concerns with peoples' need to make a living.
Believe me, I'm not suggesting we return the county to an aboriginal paradise.
But given all that recent history shows of damage done to public resources by commercial pressure and heedless
development, there's no defensible reason to permit uses that add stress to our fragile Puget Sound and Hood
Canal.
I realize that you often face intimidating opposition in doing your job. I've seen the sulking, surly and threatening
behavior of radical property rights advocates at public meetings. I've read in the Leader the threats by Fred Hill
Materials representatives. I can imagine it must be difficult to carry out one's elected responsibilities in this
atmosphere. However, you have run for office and we have elected you with a very loud mandate to preserve
natural resources generally and, specifically, to deny a gravel-mining operation on the canal.
Please be strong in carrying out the emphatic, demonstrated desire of your voters to preserve and protect
public waters.
Yours truly,
Marilyn Lewis, Port Townsend
1/26/2009