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Tuesday, June 16, 20098:28 AM
Michelle McConnell
AI Scalf; Stacie Hoskins; Jeanie Orr
FW: Please Protect Our Environment
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From: Bob Schultz [mailto:rschultz@olympus.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 20098:19 AM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Cc: pschultz@olympus.net; Laura Tucker
Subject: Please Protect Our Environment
Dear Planning Commission Members:
Thanks for the opportunity--even at this late stage--to weigh in on the Shoreline Master Plan. Thank you, too, for your long
hours of hard work on the difficult details of these proposed regulations. I speak as a citizen concerned for good science,
the public good (not just land-owner rights), and future generations. I speak from the perspective of having taught courses
in environmental ethics for 30 years to university students.
Just as we have only one planet home and have come to understand its fragility, so we have only one Jefferson County
natural environment, which is also fragile in the face of demands for over-riding (if not
absolute) property rights claims and industrialized incursions. The Constitution to which we appeal in defending individual
property rights was written many life-times ago and we ignore the meaning of the huge population growth, industrialized
technology, and planetary environmental degradation of the 19th and 20th centuries at our peril--or, more precisely of the
peril of our grandchildren, and theirs.
The needs of the wider public and, most importantly, future generations will NOT be served by allowing the proposed pit-
to-pier installation, the narrowing of shoreline protected zones to a mere 50 feet, or industrial aquaculture along our
coastlines.
Please honor the science-based, public-interest-driven, future-oriented work of the citizens committee.
Thank you.
/Robert C. Schultz, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy University of Washington
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