Jefferson commissioners poised to vote on huge Brinnon resort project’s zoning

Published 5:26 am Tuesday, January 8, 2008

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County commissioners, after wrapping up final questions with planning staff during deliberations Monday night, is scheduled to make a final decision next Monday on the highly scrutinized, 251-acre Brinnon-Pleasant Harbor destination resort and golf course.

Calgary, Alberta-based Statesman Group of Companies and Black Point Properties propose a $300 million development on Hood Canal between Brinnon and the Mason County line.

The commissioners are charged with making a decision on the master-planned development whether to allow the area to be zoned for a resort.

The land is now zoned rural residential.

“We must make sure we have done enough work on the front end so this can survive an appeal,” County Commissioner David Sullivan, D-Cape George, said Monday after the meeting in the Superior Court room at the county courthouse.

“It will cost the county a lot of money otherwise [in court fees], and I don’t want to be in that position.”