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Jeanie Orr
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From: Jeanie Orr
Sent: Monday, June 08,20097:22 AM
To: Ashley Bullitt; Barbara Nightingale; Henry Werch; Patricia Farmer; Peter Downey
(peterdowney@cablespeed.com); Tom Brotherton; Tom Giske; William Miller
Cc: Michelle McConnell; AI Scalf; Stacie Hoskins; Cara Leckenby; Jeanie Orr
Subject: FW: PC RDSMP
Jeanie Orr
Planning Division Clerk
Dept of Community Development
jorr@cojefferson.wa.us
360-379-4488
360-379-4451 (fax)
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From: Bill Bahlburg [mailto:BiII@bahlburgexploration.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 10:57 AM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: PC RDSMP
Jefferson County Planning Commission
Port Townsend, WA
RE: Proposed Jefferson County Shoreline Management Plan (SMP)
Dear Sir/Madam:
We are waterfront property owners on the east side of Marrowstone Island. We have
developed our lot over the last 8 years under the current set of building ordinances,
plans, restrictions and waterfront development rules all dictated by a number of
different governmental agencies. Our home sits on a daylight basement foundation and
we have a detached garage with living quarters above. Our lot is 100ft. wide. Our
current setback is 75ft. from the bank edge (we chose 75ft. rather than crowd the bank
under the existing 50ft. rule). We feel the proposed rule that does not allow us to
rebuild our home on its current basement foundation in the event of a fire or other loss
is unacceptable. Quite frankly, we could not do this without completely bulldozing all
the buildings on our lot, rebuilding our septic system and all subsurface utilities,
clearing more land and starting over. You simply cannot allow an owner to develop
their property under an initial set of restrictive rules and regulations with all sorts of
setback and offset requirements and then tell them they can't rebuild on the same
footprint if their home burns to the ground. Such a rule would have severe and possibly
devastating financial consequences to the owner and is an egregious, if not illegal,
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infringement of property rights. If this proposed rule remains unchanged in the final
SMP we will join with others to fight it and seek legal remedy to our satisfaction.
Thank you for allowing us to comment on the matter.
Sincerely,
William C. Bahlburg
P.O. Box 151
Nordland, WA 98358
6/8/2009