PORT TOWNSEND — The three-member Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board has ruled that Jefferson County complied with the Growth Management Act in its approach to a huge resort in the Brinnon area.
The final decision and order released earlier this week favor the county and the proposed project’s developer, Statesman Corp., contrary to challenges from opposing residents organized as the Brinnon Group.
Thwarted is the group’s legal argument that the county did not allow for an ample public comment period to address concerns about the $300 million project.
Statesman proposes the Pleasant Harbor Marina and Golf Resort as an 890-unit master-planned development on 252.6 acres of Black Point south of Brinnon, and farther south at adjoining Pleasant Harbor Marina.
Jefferson County commissioners in January rezoned the acreage from rural residential to master-planned resort with 30 conditions that the Canadian corporation must meet.
The Brinnon resort would encompass and improve the existing Pleasant Harbor Marina, which will remain at 284 slips. A “retail village” with 90 condominium units would be added around the marina.
An 18-hole golf course would be constructed on a site previously used as a private Thousand Trails campground.
Housing for resort employees also would be developed.
