SEQUIM — Picture it: Flying down a zipline over Johnson Creek, with the wind rushing in your ears and treetops whizzing past, as you descend toward Sequim Bay.
A zipline — a cable strung above the stream corridor — is but one of the ideas being tossed around as the John Wayne family eyes a 375-unit resort development near John Wayne Marina.
The proposed development comprises five subdivisions, including dozens of home sites north of Johnson Creek, a clustered housing tract, a hotel with 74 condominium-style units, 24 streamside vacation cabins and a commercial strip south of the harbormaster’s office.
The Wayne family, based in Newport Beach, Calif., owns the 166 acres where the resort would be built.
The family’s local representative is Louie Torres of Olympic Development Planning.
Torres has been talking with Sequim planners for many months about the “Sequim Bay resort community.”
He said Wayne himself envisioned it, back in the days when the actor frequented the Strait of Juan de Fuca in his yacht, a converted mine sweeper called the Wild Goose.
It could easily take a few more months before the Planning Department report is finished and the proposed project goes to the City Council for approval, Torres said.
Meantime, he and Associate Planner Joe Irvin are talking traffic — and possibilities.
