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From: Jeanie Orr
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 8:01 AM
To: Michelle McConnell
Cc: AI Scalf; Stacie Hoskins; Jeanie Orr
Subject: FW: Shoreline Master Program Review
From: Robert Kapp [mailto:bobkapp@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 12, 20099:30 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning; bobkapp
Subject: Shoreline Master Program Review
Dear Members of the Planning Commission:
We write to urge most strongly that in your effort to update the county's shoreline master program you
step back from compromises and revisions that would lessen the effectiveness of environmental
safeguards aimed at protecting the county's most precious resource -- Puget Sound and its shorelines.
We have learned that the Commission has recently stepped away from important safeguards proposed in
a draft citizen's committee document. These safeguards must be reinstated.
150-foot buffers for ALL county shorelines must be included in the final SMP.
Dropping or reducing safeguards on 60 miles of county shorelines will have unacceptable, irreversible
enviromental consequences.
Language permitting unregulated aquaculture on rural beaches must be removed from the SMP, and
provisions for net pens should be discarded.
We appreciate the opportunity to comment, and will be watching very carefully the outcome of this
coming week's hearing and your subsequent deliberations.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
/s/
Robert A. Kapp
Mary Catherine Kapp
851 54th St.
Port Townsend, W A 98368
Personal E-Mail: Bobkapp@gmai1.com
6/15/2009