County Commissioners

Focus on Water

District 1: 
Phil Johnson

District 2:
David Sullivan

District 3 (Brinnon): 
John Austin

Commissioner's Office
PO Box 1220
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Phone: 360.385.9100
Mon-Fri: 8 AM-5 PM
Weekends - Closed

The Board of Commissioners meets every Monday at the Port Townsend Courthouse. Brinnon is in District 3 - our Commissioner is John Austin. Commissioners vote on zoning regulations, environmental plans, development proposals, economic development. Public comment is taken 9:30-10 a.m, Monday. Want to support policy or seek change - tell the Commissioners.

Al Scalf, Director, 379-4493

Brent Butler, Assistant Planner, 379-4464

Joel Peterson, Assistant Planner, 379-4472

Karen Barrows, Assistant Planner, 379-4482

Rachel McHugh, Assistant Planner, 379-4482

Michelle McConnell, Project Coordinator - Shoreline Master Program (SMP) update, 379-4484

Community Development
621 Sheridan Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Phone: 360.379.4450
Mon-Fri - 9:00AM-4:30PM
Weekends - Closed

Department of Community Development (DCD) reviews development proposals, assesses environmental impacts, recommends zoning proposals to the Planning Commission and the County Commissioners. DCD sponsors many citizen committees. Get involved.

WRIA 16 plan (covering most of Brinnon) has been approved: See Skokomish-Dosewallips Watershed Planning web page maintained by Department of Ecology. See 22 page executive summary (pdf) of the plan with great maps, photos and illustrations.

WRIA 17 (covering a north sliver of Brinnon, around Pulali Point) is in the planning stage. See Documents pertaining to WRIA 17 as maintained by Department of Ecology. WRIA 17 planning has been contentious and never-ending. See DOE Gets Earful at WRIA meeting. See WRIA 17 blog.

The overarching goal of the Shoreline Management Act is "to prevent the inherent harm in an uncoordinated and piecemeal development of the state’s shorelines." In Jefferson County, the SMA applies to land use and development proposals in and near all marine waters and certain streams, rivers, and lakes.

Jefferson County is scheduled to submit an update of its Shoreline Master Program (SMP) to the State Department of Ecology by June 30, 2007. See Jefferson County Shoreline Management & Planning web portal.

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Introduction to the Shoreline Management Act - Department of Ecology

Jefferson County PUD

Shoreline Habitat

More water resources coming

Planning Resources

• Unified Development Code (UDC) 

• Revised Code of Washington (RCW)

• SEPA rules

• Jefferson County web site

• Quick Tour of Planning Universe

• Planners Web 

• Population Trends for Washington State

• Access Washington

Critical Areas Planning

Washington State's Growth Management Act requires local government to designate and protect environmentally critical areas such as fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas, wetlands, geologically hazardous areas, and critical aquifer recharge areas. Under the current schedule, Jefferson County’s Board of Commissioners will consider development code amendments in January 2007.

Protect Hood Canal and our precious natural resources. Get involved now. See Jefferson County Critical Areas page

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Jefferson County Planning Commissioners

District 1: Ashley Bullitt (3/17/11), Edeltraut Sokol (3/17/08), William Miller (3/17/09)

District 2: Patricia Farmer (3/17/11), Peter Downey (3/17/09), Henry Werch (3/17/10)

District 3 (Brinnon): R.A. (Bud) Schindler (Vice Chair, 3/17/08), Mike Whittaker (3/17/09), J.D. Gallant (3/17/10)

Growth Management & Implementation of the Growth Management Act

• Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board

• The Washington State Office of Community, Trade & Economic Development (CTED)

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