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From: Jeanie Orr
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:04 PM
To: Michelle McConnell
Cc: AI Scalf; Stacie Hoskins; Jeanie Orr
Subject: FW: SMP Comments
From: Martin DeBono [mailto:martindebono@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:21 AM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: SMP Comments
From Martin DeBono
3380 East Quilcene Road
Quilcene, WA, 98376
The stated purpose is of the SMP is for Conservation, Economic Development, HACE Resource
protection, and public access to shoreline.
Unfortunately, the only economic development that is going to come from it are fees for lawyers,
geologists, and biologists. The public will not benefit from access to shoreline because the
hurdles one needs to clear to provide this access are incredibly high.
If they named this the "We want to keep our shoreline as it is and prevent future development
act" I would be more likely to accept it. However, even then the fundamental problem is that we
are spending millions of dollars in admin fees on the development of this Plan, but there is
nothing for enforcement.
Rather than pass this plan, we should have hired a prosecutor and 4 deputies to enforce existing
laws.
The passage of the Plan will result in more, not less destruction of our shoreline because fewer
and fewer people are going to take the time to go through the permitting process. People whom
at one time would have followed the law will no longer have the financial resource to pay for the
myriad of studies needed to get a shoreline variance. They will simply avoid it all together.
The costs the Plan puts on development will result in a lower employment in the construction
industry and more desperate contractors. In the past these contractors would never do anything
without a permit, but now, out of work, they will bend the rules.
Finally, the people that destroyed the environment in the past because there were no
ramifications will continue to do so in the future.
Thank you,
Martin
6/17/2009