PORT TOWNSEND – When Jefferson County Commissioner David Sullivan stepped outside his Cape George home Monday morning to get the newspaper, he saw something that irked him.
Someone had stuck a sign reading, “Buffers Steal Land – CAO” in his front yard.
The sign referred to a highly controversial update to the county’s critical areas ordinance – the “CAO” referred to in the sign – that sets no-development buffers around environmentally sensitive areas such as wetlands and wildlife habitat.
At the close of the public comment period at Monday’s county commissioners meeting, Sullivan, sign in hand, told the audience that he would appreciate it if whoever put the sign up would talk to him directly instead.
He added that if the person wanted the sign back, he or she could have it.
