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Michelle McConnell
AI Scalf; Stacie Hoskins; Jeanie Orr
FW: DRAFT SMP RESPONSE
-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Jaman [mailto:jaman@olympus.net]
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:33 AM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: DRAFT SMP RESPONSE
Planning Commission
Members
June 12, 2009
RE: SMP
I am aware of the myriad workshops and meetings that have focused on the SMP over the
last few years. I have put in a few hours along with hundreds of other citizens. To steer
us into an environmentally stable future required rigorous research of the current science
on all aspects of shoreline functions. To steer us into politically acceptable compromise
was arduous; most of the people who have been active in the revision process accepted the
need to respect all the views brought forward.
The draft SMP delivered to the Planning Commission provided protection for inhabitants of
the shorelines ecosystems both human and animal. The Planning Commission's last minute
revisions have lost site of what is entailed in preserving a viable shoreline environment
for all of our futures.
I live atop feeder bluffs. Almost 100 feet of that bluff slipped off this last year.
"Please reinstate the science-based lS0-foot buffers for all of Jefferson County
shorelines. These buffers are sized to reduce erosion and flooding of our homes, prevent
chemicals from poisoning shellfish beds, keep our beaches clean enough to swim in, and
keep our salmon streams cool."
It is astonishing in a county with major fishing- dependent industry that the commission
would even consider industrial fish farming. The media and science have been very
informing of the irreparable disasters concomitant with such practices. The appearance of
undo influence from the Chair of the Planning Commission, a shellfish farmer, is
unfortunate. "Please remove the language allowing unregulated aquaculture on rural
beaches and replace it with the previous language of compromise on near shore and
intertidal aquaculture, including the ban on all net pens. The draft should not include
unregulated aquaculture nor should it allow fish-farming pens along Jefferson County
beaches."
The current SMP draft continues to allow mining activities within Hood Canal and on
conservancy shoreline. Thus we can expect future pit-to-pier projects. This needs to be
changed to prohibit all mining activities, including conveyors, piers and ship/barge
loading facilities outside of existing industrial areas.
The last minute changes to the SMP will open up vast reaches of Jefferson County
shorelines to unmanaged industrial development and net pens, without adequate safeguards.
Please reinstate the environmental safeguards proposed in the citizen committee's draft.
Our shorelines are where we live and work, and we don't want them turned into urbanized
commercial wastelands.
Sincerely,
Julie Jaman
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790 McMinn Rd.
Port Townsend
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