Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
9-10-2001
Letters To The Editor - Spy In The Sky
   The “4d” compliance requirements now move to the enforcement stage. Proposed ordinances to comply with the elusive NMFS “4d” requirements already plot out design/building ordinances that restrict use of 65-90 percent of prospective building sites. These proposed ordinances dictate that the aforementioned portion of building sites is to remain in “native vegetation and 5 percent or less of impervious surface.”

To make certain we, as citizens, comply with these ordinance proposals, Kitsap County is reporting to NMFS that Commissioners Botkin and Endresen propose Spy in the Sky for each citizen’s backyard.

Over the next 10 years, Kitsap County is proposing to invest $1.2 million of our property tax revenue on LandSat (Land Satellite Digital Imagery). This technology is not only grossly expensive, but capable of photo registering every mosquito on your BBQ, as well as your “non-conforming” shrubbery. The second part of this enforcement report (sent to NMFS) is to have neighbor spying and reporting on neighbor. To add insult to injury, these two commissioners propose use of our high school and community college students to monitor “their” program.

Do either Commissioner Botkin or Commissioner Endresen understand the basic issue of property rights? By now, we all know “it’s not about the salmon,” but about control of your property rights by elitists on the left.

Josh Wymer
Poulsbo
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