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From: Ron Copstead [rcopstead@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 5:04 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: Comment on Jefferson Co Shorline Master Plan
I understand that Jefferson County is currently updating its
Shoreline Master Plan. Apparently the preliminary draft
permits mining activities, including conveyor belts, piers, and
barges on the conservancy shoreline of Hood Canal. The
entire Hood Canal shoreline, however, is designated as a
"Shoreline of State-Wide Significance."
We should be smarter and wiser than to allow commercial
activity as intensive as mining activities, including conveyor
belts, piers, and barges on the conservancy shoreline of Hood
Canal.
Witness the massive expense required to clean up the rest of
Puget Sound. Hood Canal remains a pristine waterway,
virtually void of commercial shipping of any kind. It's shoreline
is not yet marred by industrialization. We should not allow
private interests to destroy this gift of nature.
I urge the Jefferson County Planning Commission to amend
the current preliminary draft shoreline master plan to prohibit
mining activities on the shoreline of Hood Canal and any other
shoreline of state-wide significance within the county's
jurisdiction.
Thank you,
Ron Copstead
Kitsap County
2/2/2009