rking@co.okanogan.wa.us ahubbard@co.okanogan.wa.us Hi, Thanks for extending the comments period, it's always nice to have a say in our world of representative action. I am a new resident of the county, having been transplanted from the more populated and less free counties on the other side of the Cascades, and, thus, have a different expectation for the future of the county than most. First, I would like to mention that the extended comments section date is not in print on the internet anywhere that I could find. I would also first like to mention that the content for the Comprehensive Plan on the 'okanogancounty.org/planning/CompPlanUpdate.html' webpage, while thourough, is unorganized and doesn't do the work of making clear what changes are being proposed for the county to the reader. For example, the 'Transportation Map' is a one-off and doesn't specify what areas are changing, if any, and why. A before/after of every area of concern would be nice. My comments exist in alignment with the order of the content in the plan and, because the plan is so long, in attempt to be as brief and to the point as possible, only address the first few sections. Authority. No laws shall make one person an authority over another. Every citizen gets a say or there is no democratic republic. An elected or apointed representative has no authority to decide and can only facilitate and bear witness to agreements and disagreements made between parties. Otherwise we get a situation where said "authority" makes a designation that supercedes both the will of the people and the factual realities of the world. An example would be the defining of "agriculture" to exclude the farming of actual plant crops such as Cannabis/Hemp under the guise of "protection" because it competes with the Marxist State's true protected interests, pharma and lumber. Compliance. This section makes clear that no property owner has rights to property on their own property, placing all property rights in the domain of the County of Okanogan or it's respective cities and/or towns. This is quite a change from the existing conditions which support the right for property owners to design and build any structure without approval from the King, so long as it is not a dwelling unit, a non-dwelling "agricultural" unit over 4,000sqft, a complex structure of many stories, or uncommonly complex building materials such as steel. Even with these seemingly logical restrictions, which exist to ensure safety, the present building code restrictions are not as totalitarian the as the new Marxist proposal to enslave the rest of the Okanogan County's 20,000+ unincorporated citizens like the other 15,000+ citizens whom live in the incoroprated areas of the county by stripping away their right to property. This section also authorizes the new Marxist state to continue to steal money from citizens who seek to follow such new restrictions of freedom by labeling the theft as a "fee". The 'Office of Planning and Development' is a fully funded department within the government of Okanogan County tasked with managing the planning and development of land within the jurisdiction of the county's physical boundaries for the people. For the county to require a "fee" beyond their existing operational funding to process or review a citizen's application for development is an act of extortion, or a game of pay-to-play at the very least, and, along with continued "exemptions" which make special classes of citizens, is wholly unconstitutional. State Environmental Policy Act Coordination. Why don't bears, deer, and rabbits need a septic system for their waste ? Why can my neighbor pollute my air but not my water ? Why are planes spraying sulphur and aluminum into the sky ? Why does Inslee ignore that China, India, and Africa are the world's largest polluters ? Why do we let Californians and Canadians in ? Scope. The statement "This code shall apply to all public and private lands situated within the unincorporated portions of Okanogan County over which Okanogan County has jurisdiction" asserts that the county is some seperate entity like a King or a God and seems to forget that the people are the county. Besides, if the county has domain over the private property of the people of Okanogan County, such that it can auction off property at will, then how is it that the property "owner" is responsible for things such as property tax and weed control ? Violation - Penalty. Not actually in this document but refferenced as such. The statement "Each such violation shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 30 days" is a threat of direct and imminent violence, as it is defined as kidnapping and false imprisonment. Conclussion. As a legal counselor, I interpret this document as establishing, or affirming the existence of, an 'Okanogan County' entity that is seperate from the entity that is the made up of the people or citizens of the county. I further interpret this document to be a contract between these two distinct entities with the sole intended purpose of stripping the remaining freedoms and liberties away from the citizens of Okanogan Count and converting the county of freedom and adventure into a police-state-like open-air corporate prison, i.e., King or Snohomish counties, as well as aligning with the international push for more immigration under the falsehoods that migration is needed to grow the economy and that such infinite growth isn't the very definition of a cancerous tumor. As a community member, I welcome a more trusting Okanogan with greater freedoms and less restrictions on life for genetic Europeans and native Salish peoples. Thanks, Adolphus Renner