Thursday, Sept. 10 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Eastsound Fire Hall
The monthly meeting of the Eastsound Planning Review Committee (EPRC) will conduct a Final Review of the Eastsound Subarea Plan, as presented by Senior Planner Colin Maycock of the San Juan County Department of Community Development
• Goal: To prepare comments for County Council
o Review Planning Commission’s recommended changes and minutes
o Review staff reports and other DCD materials
o Other comments for County Council
It will also consider the following Eastsound projects for review:
1. Tusco / NW Connoisseurs Greenhouse Facility
2. SJC Land Bank Dog Park
Future Main Topics for the EPRC are
1. Library Expansion
2. OPAL and Housing Subcommittee
The group will consider whether to plan for two topics at its October meeting, or for a Town Hall meeting.
Councilman Rick Hughes will give a County Council update.
Public Comment periods will be held at the beginning and the end of the meeting.
EPRC members are Greg Ayers (co-chair), Clyde Duke (co-chair), Martha Fuller, Ken Katz, Fred Klein, Bob Maynard and Jobin Suthergreen.
(For more information, go to https://sanjuanco.com/council/AdvisoryCommittees.aspx?committee=7 and click on the links on the left-hand sidebar.)
Although I understand the importance of having a dog park, and have loved watching people and their dogs at the existing temporary enclosure on Port property, the proposed site for the new dog park abuts Crescent Beach Preserve, and is next a downhill steep grade. Effluent flows downhill. Can a more suitable site in Buck Park, further from this wetland be found, please? I would like to see us take better care of our wetlands than we have so far. A site closer to the tennis courts/cemetary, if available, would be more appropriate for this use.
Who will be responsible for cleaning up pet waste and supplying ample “poo” bags? Since not everyone bags their dog’s feces, I am concerned that nitrates and other chemicals in canine feces and urine will flow down the hill and over time, potentially pollute the seasonal stream below, which flows into ground water and Crescent Beach. “Piles” left will attract other dogs to also defecate nearby. More people who will walk their dogs on the trails by the Preserve, all on a downhill slope. The time to think about these potential problems is now, not 10 years from now.