Brinnon, WA

In February of 2012, a draft supplemental environmental impact statement is due on a massive resort proposed on Hood Canal. The proposed $300 million Pleasant Harbor Marina and Golf Resort in Brinnon has received praise from a North Olympic Peninsula tourism industry leader, who said the economic benefits of the 257-acre resort on Hood Canal would stretch across Clallam and Jefferson counties.

The Hood Canal project has also garnered opposition from The Brinnon Group, who say it is too large for a small, rural community.

The writer of the draft supplemental environmental impact statement — or SEIS — says that The Statesman Group is turning its planned resort, which would be built three miles south of Brinnon on the Black Point peninsula, into an environmentally sound proposal.

“It looks pretty good from an environmental standpoint,” David Wayne Johnson, an associate planner with the Jefferson County Department of Community Development, said last week.

“There has been no SEIS, so all this is pie in the sky,” said Barbara Moore’lewis, who organized The Brinnon Group and has lived in Brinnon since 2003.

DCD last week posted Statesman’s preferred plan and another alternative from the company along with a description of the project at http://tinyurl.com/7yr6x3s.