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Testimony: Marion Meadows proposal to change zoning to 4-5 houses per acre <br />Eugene Nansel 381 pit way P. O. Box 588 Easton, WA. 98925 <br />awssgene@yahoo.com 425-283-9195 owner since 1994 <br />10/12/2017 <br />I oppose changing zoning from 5 acre to anything that would allow more houses next to forestry land. <br />I purchased this land in 1994 counting on the zoning laws to stay in place for my protection and <br />Wildlife protection. I am going to address the issue of placing the wildlife and people so close together <br />that it is a detriment to both people and wildlife. I believe strongly in the need for our nations zoning <br />system to solve these issues. In changing to R-5 zoning we will lose the transition area between people <br />and land designated for forest land, wildlife's home. Some of this land exposed to the change is national <br />or state forest land and these areas certainly need to have a transition area to avoid clashes between <br />people and wildlife. <br />These zoning rules that help to create space between wildlife and people are well thought out <br />and certainly apply in this case. Wildlife needs to be protected from negative impacts created by <br />people, and people need some protection from impacts created by wildlife. In 19941 specifically chose <br />to buy and live in this peripheral area next to forestry land and now twenty some years later Marion <br />Meadows wants to violate these very logical premises that protect both people and wildlife. A good <br />example of these clashes is how many vehicle drivers and animals are killed each year in America by <br />wildlife crossing our highways. So currently 1-90 has wildlife over and under crossings being <br />constructed to help avoid the clashes that cause death to both people and wildlife. <br />Zoning laws and the current zoning in effect at the Marion Meadows site are in the best interest <br />of the people of Kittitas County and I ask you to deny this request for denser housing. We need the <br />current transition area in effect to protect the people and the wildlife of Kittitas County. <br />Eugene Nansel <br />6� 1 -3 -,7-- <br />