I guess I was late getting the news.
I received on July 10 a letter dated July 7 from Greg Ballard in Director Mary Ellen Winborn’s Department of Economic Development, Clallam County.
It informed me that the Navy wanted to build the pier and they were kicking out billion-dollar Cooke Aquaculture Pacific LLC aka Icicle aka American Sea Gold, which had decided to relocate to my backyard between Morse Creek and Green Point.
Clallam County was lead agent — sssh, it’s a secret — and the “Clallam County Responsible Official,” my guess Winborn, had determined July 6 that a Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance (that’s a mouthful) should be issued and the comment period was to end July 24, which will go into evidence with the county hearing examiner Sep. 7.
There was some other garbage about unless the Responsible Official withdraws the threshold determination pursuant to WAC 197-11-340(3)(a) the threshold determination would be final July 24.
Wow, neat and complete.
You’ve got the Navy, the state Environmental Policy Act, the Clallam Economic Development Corp. and everyone you could ever think of being cordial and wishing everybody the best.
The only thing is, they forgot to ask the coastal residents — who are the ones affected — how they felt about it.
Build it elsewhere or not at all.
The original site map showed they had considered west of Port Angeles harbor, but they are a determined bunch.
I think it’s time Four Season Ranch and the Bluff’s got their say.
Let’s bring it out in the open for the citizens to discuss.
Steve McCuen,
Port Angeles