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COUNTY BRIEFS
County seeks public
input‘for open space
Mason County is inviting the pub-
lic to help the county develop a plan
for Parks, Recreation, Open Space
and Trails.
The website was made available for
input Nov. 11 and the feedback will
help prioritize park and trail improve—
ments for the next six years. The on-
, line workshop is available through
Friday. Participation in the workshop
will help the county qualify ‘for grant
money.
To participate in the virtual event,
visit masoncountywa.gov/parks. If you
or someone you know is unable to pro-
vide feedback online, hardcopy work-
shop materials can be requested by
calling 360-427-9670 ext. 535.
Resident disputes
meeting minutes
Mason County commissioners ap-
proved the minutes for the Aug. 31
commissioners meeting, despite the
objections from Shelton resident Mark
Golda.
The dispute oVer the minutes
concerns the rezoning of property
from neighborhood residential to
commercial industrial owned by Hi—
awatha Corp at the intersection of E
Hiawatha Road and E Johns Prairie
Road.
“The minutes that ostensibly re-
flect what happened at the planning
commission meeting do not reflect
completely what happened at the
planning commission meeting,” Golda
said. “This commission has stated at
the Aug. 31 meeting that it was rely-
ing on the minutes to make this de—
cision. In any case, this commission
also stated, unanimously approved,
the recommendations of the planning
commission. The question is what
did the planning commission exactly
recommend?”
Golda said the minutes are not ex-
act reflections of what happened in the
audio file of the meeting. He cited one
of the commissioners of the planning
commission recommending a 30- to
50— foot setback of physical and vegita—
tive barriers on Hiawatha Boulevard
and New Hiawatha Corp is prohibited
from accessing the property from Hi-
awatha Boulevard. He also said the
planning commission He said the set-
back should not be counted from the
center line of Hiawatha Boulevard, it
should berfrom the edge of the road,
and he said the planning commission
unanimously adopted the setback pa-
rameters. Golda said the recommen—
dations from the planning commission
‘do not reflect what Mason County
Community Development Administra-
tor Kell Rowen stated in the meeting,
saying the setback is 15 feet.
“There’s a big problem with that
and I’ll have to remind the commis-
sion that in giving this rezone to New
Hiawatha, you are actually adversely
impacting 100 families with young
children and senior citizens who use
that road and who have to pass that
road every single day for mail and to
go to and from their house,” Golda
said. “This is a very serious problem
and this has to be fixed before this
commission approves the minutes
from the 8/31 meeting because you’re
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relying on errors that are not there.”
Golda also said Mark Kamin, the
owner of New Hiawatha Corp, “put
45,000 square feet worth of metal
frame buildings on residential proper-
ties and his representations cannot be
relied upon that what he’s going to do
with this property.” I
Acgording to the Aug. 31 meeting
minutes, “Commission feels the re-
zone request is acceptable and in line
with the law and should be approved
with the Planning Commission recom-
mendations of a 30—foot buffer and no
commercial access via Hiawatha Bou—
levard.” The motion was moved and
seconded and approved by all three
commissioners.
Before approving the meeting min-
utes, Commissioner Randy Neatherlin
shared his thoughts about the issue
Golda raised, saying the planning
commission does not adopt, the county
commissioners are the ones that make
the decisions.
f‘After reading the records, I un- .
derstand the person’s position and
opinion, but after reading the record
and the minutes, I think that’s how
our meeting went and I would not be
inclined to change something through
somebody else’s interpretation,” Neat-
herlin said. “I believe that they are ac-
curate minutes for what was said and
what was stated with us during our
business meeting.”
Commissioner Kevin Shutty also
commented on the dispute and agreed
with Neatherlin, stating the minutes
are accurate.
“They are not verbatim minutes,
they are an overview of the discussion
that were had,” Shutty said. “I think
our staff does a tremendous job trying
HIGHER
to keep up with all the conversation.
In particular at that time, there was
a good bit of public comment as well
as deliberation between the commis—
sion on the items in front of us. All of
that to say that the controlling factor
here is the motion, not the minutes.
The minutes can be as detailed or as
broad as possible but what controls the
outcome is the motion that is made by
the body and I think that that motion
accurately picked up the recommenda—
tions of the planning commission as
well as the decision the board of county
commissioners was intending to make
based on the public comment and the
application that was received based on
what’s allowable under state law.”
The meeting minutes were ap-
proved unanimously.
Construction
transportation
improvement
programs approved
Mason County commissioners ap-
proved the 2022 annual construction
program at the Nov. 9 meeting.
County Engineer and Deputy Di-
- rector Mike Collins presented the
program to the commission. He said
the county recently completed the Old
Belfair Highway resurfacing project
and the Shelton Springs improvement
project has replaced it in the plan.
Collins noted the resurfacing proj—
ects of Sunny Side Road, California
Road, Kelley Hall Road, and Sunny
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