Comment from Robert Dutton, Candidate Washington State Legislature

Your economic analysis fails to consider pending or possible projects needed to keep or increase jobs. In the case of Grays Harbor you assigned a $30,000 cost, but the designation could threaten the pontoon bridge graving docks slated to be built, the reopening of the Cosmopolis Pulp Mill, any expansion of the Port of Grays Harbor, the proposed wave and wind energy project, and a wide variety of other job and economy boosting projects. The graving docks will generate about $200 million for the community. Reviewing the local paper archives, there had been no prior notification to the public of such a possible review. Businesses see such increasing limitations as reasons NOT to build along the coast, thus negatively impacting the population. You site opportunity costs but lose sight of reality. People and the economy need jobs to live. Your priorities are backward.