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Planning Commission:
I appreciate all the work you've done on this draft. I know it has taken many hours of your time.
However, I am concerned that the proposed Shoreline Management Act, which is supposed to
further protect Hood Canal, will actually do significant environmental damage. My specific
concern is that there will be further damage to Black Point and to the Brinnon area.
The Canadian developer Statesman spent a significant amount of money and time to influence
the Planning Commission and the county to approve the master planned resort in Brinnon. They
have similarly been active in the rollback of environmental protections in this proposed
ordinance.
The winners of this current SMA draft will not be the wildlife. It will not be the health of the
canal. It will not be local residents. It will be big business. And the whole county will lose.
~ Please don't roll back any environmental safeguards proposed by the CITIZENS
Committee draft.
~ Please reinstate the science-based buffers for all of Jefferson County's shorelines.
~ I support the Planning Commission's revision to make it easy for homes to be rebuilt
after a fire. However, rolling back science-based buffers to achieve this is not prudent.
Instead of reducing environmental safeguards on 60 miles of shoreline, the County needs
to come up with a cheap and easy process to allow development on nonconforming lots
while protecting water quality and habitat.
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Barbara Moore Lewis
PO Box 303
Brinnon, WA 98320