CHIMACUM – A majority of Jefferson County planning commissioners will recommend that the county commissioners shoot down Security Services Northwest’s proposal to rezone 40 acres in Gardiner to relocate its gun range.
The planners’ vote did not come easily at a meeting Wednesday night – and not before three planning commissioners walked out of the Chimacum High School auditorium, and the remaining five had to wrangle for the opportunity to vote.
Vice Chairman Bud Schindler tried to block the vote.
He was acting as chairman because the commission chair, Peter Downey, recused himself for having the same Discovery Bay landlord as Security Systems Northwest President Joe D’Amico.
Reading from a written statement, Schindler pointed to four technical errors he believed the commission had previously made on the issue that would prevent a vote, primarily the wording of a motion made by Planning Commissioner Patricia Farmer on Sept. 26.
Farmer had moved to take the vote up at a later date because a vote at the Sept. 26 meeting had inadequate support to either approve or deny a recommendation to move the shooting range.
