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San Juan Islands, WA
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Friends of the San Juans
ARC was hired to research and write scoping letter and accompanying attachment (Summary Itemization of Analyses Needed to Assess and Evaluate Concerns) for the Friends of the San Juans in relation to the Environmental Impact Statement for the Pacific International Terminals Inc.’s proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal project at Cherry Point, Washington and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway’s Custer Spur Rail Expansion project. Scoping Letter (977 KB) Scoping Letter Attachment (20.2 MB) If you would like parts this large document, please contact us. |
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San Juan County Planning Office - long term planning and marine conservation
Growth management. ARC was hired in the spring of 2000 to consider how the San Juans might retain their quality of life as a rural community. The resulting product, Economic Impacts of Growth Pressure in Selected Seasonal/Resort Communities: Document Analysis and Interview Summaries -- Aspen, Colorado, and Nantucket, Massachusetts, is fostering continued debate. ARC has been approached by a group of long-time residents to develop a 40-year plan for limiting inappropriate development in the islands. Work continues in 2005.
Personal watercraft. ARC prepared the first comprehensive assessment in the world of the implications of PWCs (“jetskis”) on a local community, Personal Watercraft Use in the San Juan Islands (1998), contained a quantitative description of the County’s unique, rural, island setting and analyzed the potential human, wildlife and water quality impacts associated with these highly-polluting, mostly two-stroke watercraft. The County cited the report as the substantive basis for its unprecedented 1998 enactment of a permanent ban on the use of jetskis on all its marine waters and lakes – the only county in the country to do so. The report has been used in England by the London Times in its campaign to limit use of PWCs, and it was cited in a successful federal lawsuit to prohibit PWC use in U.S. National Parks.
Marine protected areas. In the fall of 2002, ARC cooperated with the Natural Resources Law Program at the University of British Columbia Law School to produce a guidebook on the many ways a community can affordably protect near-shore marine waters.
For more information on San Juan County, WA.
Growth management. ARC was hired in the spring of 2000 to consider how the San Juans might retain their quality of life as a rural community. The resulting product, Economic Impacts of Growth Pressure in Selected Seasonal/Resort Communities: Document Analysis and Interview Summaries -- Aspen, Colorado, and Nantucket, Massachusetts, is fostering continued debate. ARC has been approached by a group of long-time residents to develop a 40-year plan for limiting inappropriate development in the islands. Work continues in 2005.
Personal watercraft. ARC prepared the first comprehensive assessment in the world of the implications of PWCs (“jetskis”) on a local community, Personal Watercraft Use in the San Juan Islands (1998), contained a quantitative description of the County’s unique, rural, island setting and analyzed the potential human, wildlife and water quality impacts associated with these highly-polluting, mostly two-stroke watercraft. The County cited the report as the substantive basis for its unprecedented 1998 enactment of a permanent ban on the use of jetskis on all its marine waters and lakes – the only county in the country to do so. The report has been used in England by the London Times in its campaign to limit use of PWCs, and it was cited in a successful federal lawsuit to prohibit PWC use in U.S. National Parks.
Marine protected areas. In the fall of 2002, ARC cooperated with the Natural Resources Law Program at the University of British Columbia Law School to produce a guidebook on the many ways a community can affordably protect near-shore marine waters.
For more information on San Juan County, WA.