Tuesday’s hearing made the risk plain. Futurewise’s attorney told you the Climate Vulnerability Assessment is only “one step,” cited the Thurston County ruling that soft planning language is not enough, and previewed an appeal if Clallam does not lock in action-forcing policies. The draft you are moving already supplies that record: extreme scenarios treated as fact, “shall” language waiting in the wings, and a county admission that staff exceeded what House Bill 1181 requires.
HB 1181 requires a climate resilience section. It does not require a Climate Vulnerability Assessment, greenhouse-gas reduction policies, or the hottest forecast in the set. The draft Climate Element says Clallam is not required to address the greenhouse-gas section, then notes that staff exceeded the minimum. That is a choice, and it is the choice Futurewise will use.
Please do three things before this plan is finalized:
1. Do not adopt the Climate Element or the CVA as written. Rewrite the assessment around middle-range projections, with uncertainties stated in plain language. Stop treating RCP 8.5 and the high end of the 2012 MACA downscaling as the county’s working forecast. The observed record in the same document is about 1.4°F since 1895. A 9°F end-of-century summer figure is a scenario, not a fact the code should enforce for 20 years.
2. Meet HB 1181 and stop there. Keep “promote,” “encourage,” and “explore.” Do not convert them to “shall,” timelines, named departments, or measurable targets that turn a resilience chapter into a permit manual. Reject the Marine Resources Committee request to make climate forecasts binding and to put a biologist on critical-areas and shoreline files as a climate condition.
3. Fix the conflict before the vote. Page 14 cites the North Olympic Development Council for the claim that this warming “will bring significant consequences.” Commissioner Ozias sits on that board. He should recuse himself from any vote that adopts NODC work product as the scientific basis for restrictions on private property. The same standard should apply to everyone: tribal trust land is already outside county critical-areas code; do not write a climate chapter that regulates fee-simple owners more strictly than the trust parcels next door.
Futurewise wins most of its appeals because counties write the record for them. Do not do that here. The people who own the land did not ask you to exceed the statute.
We are sick and tired of those in the county treating us as if we have no property rights or freedoms to live here in peace! The outrageous taxes, lies about "voter approved fees" that we NEVER voted for or approved, the shady, closed-door meetings and special deals between NGOs and foreign governments, and this constant fake science BS about the world coming to an end that has NEVER been accurate for the past 50+ years! We will NOT tolerate any more unconstitutional big government oppression and attacks upon our freedom and rights!
The climate agenda is a hoax? More control, another disaster, fear mongering, and facts that are manipulated. Wow we have a solution that makes no sense and only creates chaos with us property owners. These commissioners hire people to do their jobs that already have an agenda and then try to convince us we need to react. CC is fine if these people would just go away and stay away. Let CC run our county and the hell with the Olympia and liberal power grabbers!
“I am from the government and I am here to help.” I believe this was a quotation from then President Ronald Regan. Regardless, there is truth in this saying. The opposite is reality.
A Comp Plan is not a brochure. It is the 20-year instruction book for Critical Areas, shoreline rules, housing, wells, rentals, and what “climate risk” means when you want to pull a permit. Extreme assumptions in, extreme code out. Futurewise does not need to invent a record. Harvey, Cascadia, and CCA dollars already typed it.
Warning. This is “your government” at work. Read the small print. Find the intentional invasion of each individual’s living standards, the way to own property, to minimize tax burdens, to survive. Too many rules.
Who prospers with these rules? We voters in Clallam County have a power-hungry set of elected officials. This governance is self-serving, invasive, and frightening. Less is best. The constant, aggressive nature of our elected officers is not in the best interests of the citizens of Clallam County. Sadly, the majority of our citizens do not read these documents. The result is often a nasty surprise when new rules, new standards, become new restrictions on our way of life.
When the red flag is showing we voters need to respond. Doing nothing allows for a disappointment when these “new” rules become law.
CC Watchdog has reported Cascadia’s use of ICLEI tools. ICLEI is the German-based network that sells local governments software, methods, and a global “movement” vocabulary. The NODC — the nonprofit Commissioner Ozias has led — recruited local governments toward ICLEI membership and even offered to help pay dues. NODC and the Tribe have been ICLEI members. That is not a planning department finding science in a file cabinet. That is a consultant-nonprofit-tribal circuit writing the assumptions, then sending them to the dais for the vote. This move toward globalization is frightening. I am still asking the question, who gains from all these new regulations, mandates, and laws?
Hello! I am speaking to you, our Clallam County voters, home owners, business owners. Wake up!
The voice of the individual is being suppressed and lost. Organizations across the world are becoming more forceful and invasive. This is international, and intentional. Again, read the small print.
Action. Action is needed. We voters must start to realize that our elected officials are not working to make our life better, but are giving away many of our long-fought-for rights. Speak up. Vote for change. Protect our local citizenry and our historical way of living. The red flags are flying.
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Sent today:
Commissioners and Director Emery,
Tuesday’s hearing made the risk plain. Futurewise’s attorney told you the Climate Vulnerability Assessment is only “one step,” cited the Thurston County ruling that soft planning language is not enough, and previewed an appeal if Clallam does not lock in action-forcing policies. The draft you are moving already supplies that record: extreme scenarios treated as fact, “shall” language waiting in the wings, and a county admission that staff exceeded what House Bill 1181 requires.
HB 1181 requires a climate resilience section. It does not require a Climate Vulnerability Assessment, greenhouse-gas reduction policies, or the hottest forecast in the set. The draft Climate Element says Clallam is not required to address the greenhouse-gas section, then notes that staff exceeded the minimum. That is a choice, and it is the choice Futurewise will use.
Please do three things before this plan is finalized:
1. Do not adopt the Climate Element or the CVA as written. Rewrite the assessment around middle-range projections, with uncertainties stated in plain language. Stop treating RCP 8.5 and the high end of the 2012 MACA downscaling as the county’s working forecast. The observed record in the same document is about 1.4°F since 1895. A 9°F end-of-century summer figure is a scenario, not a fact the code should enforce for 20 years.
2. Meet HB 1181 and stop there. Keep “promote,” “encourage,” and “explore.” Do not convert them to “shall,” timelines, named departments, or measurable targets that turn a resilience chapter into a permit manual. Reject the Marine Resources Committee request to make climate forecasts binding and to put a biologist on critical-areas and shoreline files as a climate condition.
3. Fix the conflict before the vote. Page 14 cites the North Olympic Development Council for the claim that this warming “will bring significant consequences.” Commissioner Ozias sits on that board. He should recuse himself from any vote that adopts NODC work product as the scientific basis for restrictions on private property. The same standard should apply to everyone: tribal trust land is already outside county critical-areas code; do not write a climate chapter that regulates fee-simple owners more strictly than the trust parcels next door.
Futurewise wins most of its appeals because counties write the record for them. Do not do that here. The people who own the land did not ask you to exceed the statute.
We are sick and tired of those in the county treating us as if we have no property rights or freedoms to live here in peace! The outrageous taxes, lies about "voter approved fees" that we NEVER voted for or approved, the shady, closed-door meetings and special deals between NGOs and foreign governments, and this constant fake science BS about the world coming to an end that has NEVER been accurate for the past 50+ years! We will NOT tolerate any more unconstitutional big government oppression and attacks upon our freedom and rights!
Sincerely, Mike
The climate agenda is a hoax? More control, another disaster, fear mongering, and facts that are manipulated. Wow we have a solution that makes no sense and only creates chaos with us property owners. These commissioners hire people to do their jobs that already have an agenda and then try to convince us we need to react. CC is fine if these people would just go away and stay away. Let CC run our county and the hell with the Olympia and liberal power grabbers!
Clallam County Comp Plan. 2026.
“I am from the government and I am here to help.” I believe this was a quotation from then President Ronald Regan. Regardless, there is truth in this saying. The opposite is reality.
A Comp Plan is not a brochure. It is the 20-year instruction book for Critical Areas, shoreline rules, housing, wells, rentals, and what “climate risk” means when you want to pull a permit. Extreme assumptions in, extreme code out. Futurewise does not need to invent a record. Harvey, Cascadia, and CCA dollars already typed it.
Warning. This is “your government” at work. Read the small print. Find the intentional invasion of each individual’s living standards, the way to own property, to minimize tax burdens, to survive. Too many rules.
Who prospers with these rules? We voters in Clallam County have a power-hungry set of elected officials. This governance is self-serving, invasive, and frightening. Less is best. The constant, aggressive nature of our elected officers is not in the best interests of the citizens of Clallam County. Sadly, the majority of our citizens do not read these documents. The result is often a nasty surprise when new rules, new standards, become new restrictions on our way of life.
When the red flag is showing we voters need to respond. Doing nothing allows for a disappointment when these “new” rules become law.
CC Watchdog has reported Cascadia’s use of ICLEI tools. ICLEI is the German-based network that sells local governments software, methods, and a global “movement” vocabulary. The NODC — the nonprofit Commissioner Ozias has led — recruited local governments toward ICLEI membership and even offered to help pay dues. NODC and the Tribe have been ICLEI members. That is not a planning department finding science in a file cabinet. That is a consultant-nonprofit-tribal circuit writing the assumptions, then sending them to the dais for the vote. This move toward globalization is frightening. I am still asking the question, who gains from all these new regulations, mandates, and laws?
Hello! I am speaking to you, our Clallam County voters, home owners, business owners. Wake up!
The voice of the individual is being suppressed and lost. Organizations across the world are becoming more forceful and invasive. This is international, and intentional. Again, read the small print.
Action. Action is needed. We voters must start to realize that our elected officials are not working to make our life better, but are giving away many of our long-fought-for rights. Speak up. Vote for change. Protect our local citizenry and our historical way of living. The red flags are flying.