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Fax Cover Sheet
R.B. McComb
980 North Bay Way
Port Ludlow, WA 98365-9454
Tel/FAX: 360-437-2339
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Send: Department of Community From: R.B. "Scotty" McComb
Development
Attention: Michelle McConnell Date: 19 FEB 09
Phone Number: 379-4450 Ref: Planning Commission Meeting
last night 19 FEB 09
Fax Number: 379-4451 Total page. Including cover: 2
o Urgent
o Reply ASAP
o Please comment
o Please Review
o For your Information
Comment: Enclosed is a copy of my comments dated 1/30/09
regarding the Draft SMP, which apparently fell through the
crack and does not appear in the list of comments received.
submit them again for your consideration.
Respectfully,
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From: Robert McComb
To: Jeff County Planning
Bee: Sinclair
Date: 1/30/20092:19:22 PM
Subject: Comments on draft SMP
In accordance with your recommendation, the following comments are respectfully submitted:
1. Concur emphatically with the prohibition on netpen aquaculture. This practice is so polluting that it requires a sewer outfall
permit. It has no place in the waters ofthis county. Other counties and British Columbia regret ever having permitted it.
2. The of the two acre limitation for floating aquaculture must be retained.
3. Over water aquaculture product processing must continue to be prohibited. This practice pollutes both the waters and the
sh ores and is used as an economical way to circumvent th e proper disposal of waste material.
4. Land based buoy and vessel retrieval systems must not be permitted. Such systems are a hazard to navigation and a
significant danger to protected marine mammals.
5. Hood canal is a fragile, delicate and extensive waterway with a conservancy shoreline that has officially been designated as a
"Shoreline of State-Wide Significance." Apparently this obvious truth has not been recognized in this preliminary draft which
permits mining piers, docks, conveyor belts, barges for the benefit of profiteering corporations. This cannot and must not be
allowed. No consideration, whatsoever. A very strong precedent against such operations was issued by the Shorelines Hearing
Board overturning a permit issued by Mason County. It can be assumed that you must be familiar with this edict. This
consideration should extend beyond just Hood Head, but also to Port Ludlow Bay, Mats-Mats, Oak Bay and beyond.
6. Current residents and property owners who have legally developed and maintained their properties in accordance with existing
and previous rules and regulations should absolutely be allowed to continue to retain those rights to exist and maintain their
properties from time of purchase to the present. Any retroactive regulation would impose an unnecessary and unacceptable
hardship.
In conclusion: It is recognized and witnessed that the County Commissioners, the Planning Department, and the Department of
Community Development have been brought under pressure from the extremes of the property rights alliance to corporate entities
with batteries of lawyers. This ongoing and unfortunate, and your resistance to such personal and private interests is most
laudable. Be assured that the above comments are those of long time private residents seeking the middle ground and sensible
rules and regulations that we can live with while protecting our precious environment. Thank you.
R.B. "Scotty" and Carol McComb
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