What will limit the resort planned above Brinnon to a “seasonal — only” status (if it proceeds) is its 61 inches of annual rainfall and remote location.
Compared to Port Ludlow’s 27 inches of rain, Port Townsend’s 20, Seattle’s 37 and Sequim’s 17 — the new residents of the Master Planned Resort at Brinnon, at 61 inches of wet, will need special footwear.
To get anywhere else and back again, seeking goods and services, they will need a tank of gas.
Round trip to Sequim is 86 miles, Port Townsend is 76 miles, Poulsbo is 84 miles and Shelton is an 80-mile round trip.
Brinnon’s new neighbors will be road warriors.
Although the environmental impact of this proposed development has been well covered as it affects its local watershed (http://www.jeffersoncounty publichealth.org/761/Environmental- Impact-Statement-EIS), its creation of a new “commuter class” is a curious treatment of modern “sustainable” planning.
Such issues should interest all residents of Washington state.
Art James,
Port Ludlow