The never ending project at Black Point by the Statesman Group (aka Pleasant Harbor Development) appears to have run into another snag. The Pleasant Tides Property Owners Association (PTPOA) originally was asked by Statesman to provide supplemental water through their water district. However, according to their latest newsletter, the PTPOA lawyers cannot find a legal way to provide that without jeopardizing their non-profit status and federal IRS status as a Home Owners Association (HOA).
The Statesman group is apparently attempting to find other, legal ways for them to accomplish this, but it increasingly looks like Statesman is going to come up short on their plans for providing relatively low cost water, or any supplemental water, to their project.
As many know, this project has been challenged by a number of residents and groups in our county since the very beginning, and despite that, our County Commissioners (Democrats at that too), went along with the highly controversial project plan. None of those former commissioners say they would do it again. And yet, here we are, almost 20 years down the road, with many unanswered questions about how this project will ever successfully come to completion.
In February, the Hood Canal Enviromental Council requested a denial of the project by Jefferson County. They stated, in a letter to the Board of County Commissioners and James Kennedy (prosecuting attorney) that: The plan for 216 single-family residential lots, without the required MPR project features, is inconsistent with the 2019 Development Agreement amendments. That is still a developing story.
Filed under: Environmental Activism, Environmental Protection, Jefferson County, Projects | Tagged: Black Point, Pleasant Harbor, Statesman Group |
