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Jeanie Orr
From: Jeanie Orr
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 20094:50 PM
To: Michelle McConnell
Cc: AI Scalf; Stacie Hoskins; Jeanie Orr
Subject: FW: Shoreline Master program
From: Stephanie Austin [mailto:stephanie@ecoastrology.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:53 AM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: Shoreline Master program
Dear Members of the Planning Commission,
. We appreciate the Planning Commission's work to review the SMP based on citizen comments. However, the
Planning Commission has eliminated important safeguards that would protect shoreline habitat and water quality as
new growth occurs.
. Please don't roll back 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 urban wastelands.
. Please reinstate the science-based 1 50-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.
. I support the Planning Commission's efforts to balance property rights with environmental concerns, such as the
revision to make it easy for homes to be rebuilt after a fire. I believe that we need a simple process that allows for
development on nonconforming lots while protecting water quality and habitat. Reducing the environmental
safeguards on 60 miles of our county's shoreline is not an option.
. 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.
. Thank you for taking these points into consideration.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Austin
6/1612009