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Hello Greg and Heidi and Heather,
I am forwarding to you all the email I sent to the DCD. Later this afternoon is the deadline for public comments, two weeks after our first notice.
On January 21st, Eric Kingfisher from the JLT spoke at our MICA meeting. Heidi was in attendance. I added the links below. Hope they come through. Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Patricia Earnest
Hello David Wayne,
I am writing to ask the DCD to extend the Public Comment time on the granting of a CUP to the JLT’s Conservation Burial Proposal for the 36 acre Schwartz Rd property currently owned
by the Marrowstone Preserve to allow a Green Burial enterprise on the property. I also suggest there needs to be a lot more information submitted to the DCD before such a granting was
made.
There are several reasons leading me to this request:
The property seems to be mostly wetland... meaning in the winter especially, the water table might be just below the surface and therefore inappropriate for burial whether human,
green human, animal, trash or otherwise. And without at least a SEPA environmental guidance requirement it could become a liability down the road.
As presented to us at the MICA meeting this month, Eric Kingfisher was unable to commit to the land continuing to be open to public walking access, regardless of what the passed
out written material claims.
The proposal claims to offer the “community” an alternate burial option right on the island, but to make the “for profit” burial grouds cover its investments, we were told its
use would have to be open to all comers.
The building easement is only in one corner of the property on Schwartz Road. How is that a beautification of the property for those who will constantly have it in view?
Is the parking lot on that piece of ground as well? It doesn’t look like it from the schematics.
Before a CUP can be granted, one would expect there to be feasibility studies done. Not the other way around… Not done AFTER the CUP granting.
Where is the proposed balance sheet for the Olympic Wildland Burial Grounds?
From the MICA presentation, it looks like the burial plots (20’ x 20’ each according to Eric at MICA) would have to be placed around the perimeter of the property. Therefore,
abutting residential land.
What is the precise process for a burial? If the burials are “Green”, how is it determined that drugs or chimo materials or prosthetics, titanium screws, hip replacements, etc.
do not polute the pristine burial grounds? And at what cost, where?
Once all these answers are collected, an impartial Hearing Examiner should hear the arguments. None of the above will be done by the end of today, I suspect.
We know you will make a fair and informed call as you have done before.
Thank you,
Patricia Earnest
P.S. Attached is a video of the above referenced MICA meeting.