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Jeanie Orr
From: Jeanie Orr
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:07 AM
To: Michelle McConnell
Cc: AI Scalf; Stacie Hoskins; Jeanie Orr
Subject: FW: SMP MASTER PLAN
From: Bill Wise [mailto:whwise@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 20097:18 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: SMP MASTER PLAN
Thank you Planning Commission for your continued and diligent work on the SMP. I have the following inputs.
. 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 150-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. These buffers will also
increase property values as is evident in Massachusetts where the first Rivers & Estuary Protection
Act was successfully implemented.
. 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. Again in
Massachusetts, flexibility was given to locally appointed volunteers to work wioth property
oweners to mitigate and to work out solutions to property owner needs in balance with
environmental needs. In my six years on the Sherborn Conservation Commission, we were able to
work with property owners successfully with not one lawsuit and not one fine being levied and
rotecting the Upper Charles River watershed.
· 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 the opportunity to comment!
Bill Wise
710 Foster Street
Port Townsend WA
6/18/2009