Would you like to see more public access and recreation opportunities along our county rivers and ocean beaches? Come tell us your ideas about this important issue at an upcoming public workshop on:
If you like to boat, fish, surf, walk, hunt, picnic, bird watch, camp, or simply sit along our rivers and ocean beaches, this is the workshop for you! Grays Harbor County is updating its Shoreline Master Program and needs your ideas about how we can plan for new or improve existing access opportunities along our shorelines. The ideas shared by citizens at these workshops will help guide the Grays Harbor County Shoreline Planning Committee in updating your Shoreline Master Program.
While these workshops will focus only on those shorelines that are outside of the cities in the county, the county invites all Grays Harbor citizens who own property, live, recreate, or work along these shorelines to attend this workshop.
The Shoreline Master Program plans for future development activities in the water and 200 feet upland from shorelines along ocean beaches, sections of rivers and streams with a mean annual flow 20 cubic per second or greater, lakes 20 acres or greater, and wetlands associated with these waterbodies. State law requires Grays Harbor County, as well as each city in the county with shorelines, to update their Shoreline Master Programs.
The county’s Shoreline Planning Committee is a group of citizen volunteers appointed by the Board of Commissioners who have the responsibility to draft an updated Shoreline Master Program for county consideration.
To find out more information about the county’s Shoreline Master Program and the update process, go to the project website at www.ghcsmp.org. Citizens who have questions about the upcoming workshops or the update process in general can email the county project representative at ghcsmp@gmail.com.