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From: David Woodruff [dwoodruff@cablespeed.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 24,20092:31 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: Public comment re: SMP
Dear Planning Department:
Re: SMP proposed changes
We strongly concur with the netpen aquaculture prohibition.
We disagree with the Iifiting of the two acre floating aquaculture limitation.
We disagree with the lifting of the prohibition on overwater aquaculture product processing. Waste organic
material, such as mussel beards, has proven to be a problem. In areas where large operations are in place,
material has beached and decomposed, thus creating an environmental problem.
We disagree with the permitting of land based bouylvessel retrieval systems. They represent a potential danger
to navigation of small boats and a threat to protected marine mammals due to entanglement. Anecdotally, we
have personally observed an incident in Oak Bay in which a gray whale appeared to strike an underwater line
running from the beach to a bouy about 100 feet offshore. The whale was about 75 feet offshore. Its initial
reaction was one of violent fright. It sounded immediately and disappeared from the area in which it had been
feeding. We have not observed a gray whale in the area since that incident.
We maintain that current owners of properties developed over time under any and all present and previously
existing permitting procedures, acts, codes, plans and rules should be allowed to retain all rights to those uses
including the rights to enjoy, maintain, update and repair all past and current uses and aspects of their property
dating from time of purchase.
Please confirm receipt.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
David E. Woodruff
Jeanette A. Woodruff
1633 Water Street, Unit 8
Port Townsend WA 98368
1/26/2009