One Illahee Resident Responds to Community Plan Opposition
I am posting a letter to the editor submitted by Judith Krigsman, an Illahee resident who was active in the creation of the Illahee Community Plan and who is active in the Illahee community. She sent this via email last week requesting it run as a reader Sound Off on our Opinion page. She wrote it in response to opposition to the Illahee Community Plan that has been raised by the Kitsap County Association of Realtors and the Kitsap Alliance of Property Owners.
Let me be clear, the following text is Krigsman’s letter, not anything I have written.
Here it is:
Illahee Community Plan - Land Grabbers vs. Community
Since apparently it has become you versus us, here goes!
Your arguments are flimsy; your intimidation does you no good. You see, our community is strong, our voices united, our goal, the “good of the all”. A community who knows that green is good and the other green is called “Greed”.
One of you has clear cut as far as the eye can see next to the Hood Canal in Seabeck. One of you has designed a four or five story something or other in the floodplain and critical area buffer on Illahee’s shoreline. One of you shows no respect or understanding of how citizen’s feel, but try to bully them into thinking that just because you own property, you can harm your neighbor’s investment in their land which they treasure. One of you laughs about a voluntary Heritage Tree Protection. Several of you wish to destroy a culturally significant historical site. One of you claims only 19 people attended a meeting, but I personally know that 100 folks in Illahee signed their name and walked their talk about the Illahee Plan. One of you will help suck the low aquifer recharge drying up Illahee Creek.
That is not what counts in Illahee, a community in which you do not live. The bottom line is, that as much as you knock us down with your “nay saying” about issues in our community plan, or that this community does not understand the law, or that we don’t have the brain power to think things through, your attacks are not well grounded.
Illahee residents are here to stay! You will know that we too, have a voice, a very loud voice and we hope you can hear us. The Illahee Community Plan is our plan, a good plan approved by our community. Let us move forward!
Judith Krigsman
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December 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Judith has called out and slammed down those greedy, rich, bad boys, who have used real estate without any regard or concern of the surrounding community, & who now have enough free time to complain about the Illahee Community Plan, as their money making businesses has taken the big hit from the RECESSION (formally, declared yesterday) that we all are in.