public comments and feedback received · 2018-03-03 · 1 nisqually subarea plan update project,...

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Nisqually Subarea Plan Update Project, March 3, 2018 – Open House

Public Comments and Feedback Received

How Comment Was Submitted Comment

Comment Box Keep it as it is. It is working. Comment Box Hope for balance between rural and water quality conservation needs and

economic/transportation growth. Consider making mineral reserve lands part of this review. Restrict development on McAllister Bluff (east of Meridian) and along McAllister Creek.

Comment Box Please don’t allow any more mining or asphalt recycling in the Nisqually Valley. Comment Box In the new plan: Please do not allow mining to be part of the residential zoning

designation. Comment Box Need a hall road agreement with rock and asphalt companies, buses for Ft.

Lewis Commuters. Comment Box Development of any kind need to be looked at 100% with the military so close –

housing projects are becoming where the tree areas are now. The impact of water runoff is killing our water animals – the tree animals are dying off – farm land is already flat and ready for roads and buildings – no longer will the water go into the ground in that area. Take away the trees – the very thing that makes the air we breathe – the Planning process needs to view Seattle or Tacoma and how industry has ran the city – the drive is long – the road is hard – put the people in a preservation role.

Comment Box Please don’t ruin the rural nature of the N.V. [Nisqually Valley] Don’t turn it into a gravel pit/asphalt atrocity. Prevent RAP from being permitted. Design an efficient and renewably powered transportation system.

Comment Box I live in Nisqually Valley: 3 items are important to me 1) Don’t expand the asphalt plant. 2) Put bus service in the valley 3) Keep the density of 1 unit per 5 acres. Please keep our rural character!

Comment Box Please send copy of current sub-area plan Comment Box I see way too many single occupant (military fatigues) vehicles on Old Pac. Hwy.

Mandate JBLM VanPool!!! Comment Box Get drug users and transients out of “Old Pacific Hwy Corridor” near Nisqually

River. Slow traffic on Old Pacific Hwy. A pedestrian was hit about a month ago. Believe he/she was killed. Occurred between 7th Ave and Kuhlman Road. Medicine Creek is a non-flowing “creek” never a fish there (no water running). Stop calling it “Hartman Creek”. It is not!

Comment Box Reduce 1/5 (unit/acre) areas to ¼. New Transportation Policy suggestion writing pad

Bus Service

New Transportation Policy suggestion writing pad

Need new Carpenter I-5 exit - Agree [written by different individual]


Safety of I5 bridges, replace w/4 lane bridges (exit 116)

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I5 traffic on Kuhlman Rd. & 7th Ave stop and go every Friday & Sunday in the summer. Must do traffic study and when it’s not stop and go, people are speeding in 25 + 20 mph zones.


Provide bus service for the area west of McAllister bluff


Expand College street I-5 (S) exit to accommodate car increase in traffic. Backup on the exit at high peak times becomes dangerous!


Continue converting 4-way stops to round-abouts, at high traffic intersections.


One of the best methods to decrease commute traffic in the area, is to encourage/enable telecommute policies. Let’s look at our biggest employers in the Olympia area and see where telecommuting can be implemented/enabled.


I5 Meridian exit for commercial traffic, on & off both N/S directions.


Please have some bus service in the valley.


Please look at traffic load on 7th, Kuhlman, Old Pacific HWY SE in 35mph zone. Traffic is bad and semi-trucks are destroying road. We can’t walk anymore for fear of being hit. Exhaust is killing valley. A man/woman was killed in the last few months when walking on Kuhlman to Old Pacific Hwy SE. -Yes, Yes, Yes [written by second individual] -Yes [written by third individual]


Steilacoom is overused. Rob Rice made no improvements and the other community south is not required to either. Plus 1100 homes in Ovation are going to be feeding out. There has to be a point where the quality of life userps money.


Take pressure off I-5 exit at Hawks Prairie by adding an exit at Carpenter Road.


Potential Toll’ed access for commercial and other vehicles around/through Fr. Lewis [JBLM] or otherwise around the I-5 pinch point.


Demand JBLM institute ride share Bus system Mandatory.


Mandate JBLM Van Pool


Improve Yelm Traffic by adding/extending a major arterial on East side of JBLM from 512 to Yelm.


Provide pedestrian pathways walk/bike.


Encourage electric vehicles and buses.


Planning considerations for future public transit.


Include mass transit options.


Increase mass transit options/services before funding road widening and development.


Reduce speed up Reservation Rd. to 35mph from RR Bridge to Old Pacific.

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Which gate are you referencing in [policy] 1.1 “Mounts” the tank bridge gate is a one lane bridge. Would need controls or new bridge.


Significant long term trans. Planning for the variety of future use options.


Bike-Pedestrian Routes through valley along Yelm Hwy.


Fix all traffic from JBLM


Nisqually I-5 bridges have weight restrictions heavy trucks exit 114 and 116, using OPH to reconnect. I-5 bridges should be replaced with 4 lanes.

What would make the subarea better board

Keep I-5 traffic off our surface roads!


Get meth cooks and transients out of valley


No Asphalt Plant


Preserve low density, rural character and natural resources.


Make a multi-use public trail


Perhaps look forward generations ahead, rather than just 20 years.


Don’t allow more population. Don’t need more congestions – don’t allow high density!


Pacific and Wnlock Ct SE has a mobile home park that appears to have drug activity and is an eye sore. Police parked at the gun shop, raids on the park and sewage issues are not addressed. What neighborhood safety is there here!


Asphalt recycling will place an additional burden on an already stressed transportation arterial.


Keep asphalt recycling out of the Valley.


Please don’t turn NV [Nisqually Valley] into a giant gravel pit/asphalt plant.


Get druggies and transients out! 650, 648, & 732 Old Pacific Hwy.


Restrict any new business that is “water-based” or uses/produces hazardous chemicals or waste.


Protect agriculture and natural character of Valley including viewshed protection.


Honor the community’s 25-year history of opposing the development of an asphalt plant.


Water is life protect it No Asphalt Plant


Keep our watershed healthy for generations


Consider allowing more flexible commercial land uses where zoned Neighborhood Commercial.

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Be careful of Asphalt Plant Expansion and our water table and Nisqually River.


Keep recycle asphalt out of the Valley.


Don’t sell out and become a gravel/asphalt exporter.


Leave it as it. The watershed is one of the best. Go south – not here. It is overdeveloped anyway.


Allow asphalt recycling.


Protect water quality.


No asphalt recycling.


Require commercial and residential developers to improve infrastructure in order to develop land. Development along Martin Way is a mess!


Promote natural and social capital through enhancing low-impact land use (Ag., tourism, nat. resource). Financial relief being most powerful way to offset development pressure.

What makes the subarea unique board – keywords

Habitat


Balanced Interests


Large Estuary


Rural Character


Pristine Water


Wellheads for Olympia & Lacey


Organic Farming


Improve/maintain water resources


Less commercial development


Beautiful


Wildlife Refuge


Migratory birds fly-way


Estuary


Unique opportunity to demonstrate how a balance between preservation and human use can generate optimal natural, social, and financial returns.


Nisqually wildlife refuge

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Views


Organic farming


Good density planning for sensitive areas


Please change density to ¼


Keep “Viewshed” buffers E&W Air Quality acid rain = Asphalt recycle No!


Please keep the density as is 1 unit per 5 acres!


It is the key hub for the whole watershed.


Intact watershed


Density should be 2 units per 5 acres. Easier for family to share acreage.


Less dense residential development.


#1 priority preservation for future generations


Quiet, beautiful, rural, diverse community with all kinds of agriculture and resources and gorgeous wildlife refuge nearby.


Identify trust land within sub-area.

Handwritten note attached to printed emails given to staff member

March 3, 2018, Adair, Attached is an email stream dealing with Alder Lake Dam. Tacoma Power (TP) has a big impact on the lower Nisqually Valley that lies within the Sub-Area. Yet it isn’t even mentioned in the plan. See page 28 of the current plan. I suggest adding 2 or 3 sentences about working with TP on flood mitigation issues. [The emails attached to this note are included in Attachment A due to their length]

Hard copy of printed email and attachments given to staff member

[Due to the length of the document the following is a summary of the document submitted, please see Attachment A for the full comment/document and photos] This email is a public response to Lakeside Industries’ latest docket attempt to remove Goal E-5 from the 1992 Nisqually Sub-Area Plan [NSAP]. They want to reprocess Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) at their Holroyd’s Gravel Pit site in lower Nisqually Valley. The overall goal of the November 1992 [NSAP] was to “Maintain the existing rural environment of the Nisqually planning area with the primary emphasis on preserving…its rural, aesthetic character for future generations.” (Page17). This overall goal has been in the forefront of the 1992 Plan as well as ongoing public and private efforts to restore and maintain the Nisqually River Valley. The no-RAP provision of Policy E.5, along with the other E goals (Page 20-21, attached) was designed to protect the rural character from industrial dominance. The county has an obligation to defend this well thought out plan and strengthen it when it comes up for renewal. However, business impacts have increased, rather than be phased out as the plan has required. …

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Goal E.5 states: “…the reprocessing of asphalt shall not be allowed due to water quality concerns”. Note: RAP is recycled pavement. When it is ground up the surface area dramatically increases and allows greater leaching of chemicals in the RAP. … [Does not support asphalt recycling, but if it is allowed mitigation should be required. a mitigation option for a small scale asphalt recycling setup is discussed and a technical reference is provided…see full comment in Attachment A]… The aquifer below the pit is the source of drinking water for some as well as farm / garden irrigation for many in the valley. Lakeside knew RAP was not allowed before they built their new plant at Holroyd’s pit. The County Commissioners and two court decisions ruled they could not use RAP in Nisqually Valley. ORCAA reaffirmed they could not, due to Sub-Area Plan rules. They chose to push their way into this rural residential area, anyway. Since then, they’ve been posturing that they have been treated unfairly. Holroyd’s pit is close to being mined out. DNR and the Sub-Area Plan say they have to move out when that happens. Will they? Or, will they want increase truck traffic and change infrastructure to haul in gravel from another pit as well as RAP? This would also be in violation of the Sub-Area Plan. (Goal E.5 says: “The reprocessing of imported mineral resources shall not be the primary accessory use… .” Gravel is a mineral and is supposed to come from inside the pit. [photos are attached …see Attachment A to see full comment and photos]

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Pictures of Feedback Boards

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Attachment A

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