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Daniel Molotsky [kdmolotsky@yahoo.com]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:48 PM
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Dear Sirs,
Clean water and healthy shorelines are important to me and my family.
Protecting 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: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.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. These buffers are not
'onerous' - but will protect the quality of life we moved here to enjoy. 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 The standards to ensure construction of bulkheads, shoreline
armoring, docks, and marinas reduce impacts to salmon and forage fish 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.
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 3,500 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.
Thank you for considering my input.
Daniel Molotsky
2710 Thomas St.
Port Townsend WA 98368
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