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From: Larry Bonar [Ibonar@olypen.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11 :47 AM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: Shoreline Master Plan
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Dear Planning Commissioners
I urge you to amend the draft Shoreline Master Plan to add an outright ban on mining activities,
including such ancillary operations as transport or barge or other transport loading, on the shoreline of
the Hood Canal or other "shoreline of state-wide significance" shorelines. The ecosystem of the Hood
Canal is fragile at best, and large parts of this beautiful and useful waterway are already badly degraded.
Any industrial development along the canal will add materially to the degradation of the aesthetics and
water quality of the Canal. Please nip any such contemplated industrial development in the bud now.
It is relatively easy to establish such restrictions now--if left undone, it becomes much more difficult to
protect our priceless assets and block adverse shoreline development at a later time in the permitting
process.
Larry Bonar
917 Logan Street
Port Townsend, W A 98368-2337
360/385-1237 or 360/531-0646
FAX 360/385-1294
lbonar@olypen.com
Everyone is entitled to their
own opinion, but not their own facts. Daniel Patrick
Moynihan
1/29/2009