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From:
Jeanie Orr
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 200912:22 PM
To: Michelle McConnell
Subject: FW: Comments due March 25, 2009
Attachments: Letter to PC due 3-25-09.docx
FYI only
(I will index and file this comment and post to web)
Jeanie Orr
Planning Division Clerk
Dept of Community Development
jorr@co.jefferson.wa.us
360-379-4488
360-379-4451 (fax)
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Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:32 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: Comments due March 25, 2009
ATTN: Ms. Michelle McConnell
The attached letter has comments for action and public record regarding preparation of final phases of the
"Shoreline Master Plan". ,'.----
Future comments will be presenting the following concept:
It is suggested that the Planning Commission treat the SMP as a survival document. Treat it as though the
citizens of Jefferson County are under attack from foreign and domestic forces.
Write the Plan as though the private land in the county is the only source of food, water, shelter and fuel for its
population, then you have covered the necessary elements.
We are under an economic siege. The extent of the ramifications have not yet sunk in. The worst may yet
happen.
Thank you,
John Richmond
4/22/2009
P.O. Box 536
Forks, WA 98331-0536
March 23, 2009
Public Comment
Jefferson County Department of Community Development
621 Sheridan Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Dear Planning Commission Members,
This letter is a follow up on my comments of March 18, 2009, at your meeting in Pt. Hadlock. These
comments are intended to help produce a more comprehensible SMP document, as well as offer
commentary on effects of proposed policies and regulations.
ARTICLE 7:
8. Restoration, B. Shoreline Environment Regulations:
Why not simply say, "Restoration is permitted subject to provisions of this Program on the
following shoreline classifications: Priority Aquatic, Aquatic, Natural, Conservancy, Shoreline
Residential, and High intensity./I You would save 35 words and 1 inch of paper in this example, alone
and avoid meaningless repetition. (Throughout the entire document, there are numerous opportunities
to condense and clarify the text).
ARTICLE 8:
B. 6: High intensity:
Rather than restricting new agricultural activities, unpaved interstitial areas could offer such
things as providing shade with fruit trees, landscaping incorporating planters of herbs, root vegetables
and other low water consumption plantings, in lieu of lawn grass, etc.
C. 2. vi. Fencing:
Elk and deer disturb shoreline vegetation in western Jefferson County to a greater extent than
livestock and in the course of predator evasion, seek protection by standing in the nearest body of
water, destroying any fencing in their path.
4. Forest Practices: C: Shoreline Environment Regulations: 3.
There are four repetitions of: "may be allowed.../I of four of the shoreline classifications, along
with an erroneous note of "volume", instead use: "trees", per Washington State Forest Practices Act.
Other comments are herein offered, by reference, in my letter submitted to DCD Long Range Planning,
dated January 29,2009. I reserve the right to provide additional comment throughout the process.
Respectfully submitted,
John C. Richmond