The South Shore Road Advisory Committee (SSRAC) met Wednesday at the Church at 4:30. Attending were Win Anderson, Marc Caputo, Anne Casperson, Darcy Daniells, Paula Dekker, Susan Ferrell, Roz Glasser, Tony Maggi, David McKibben, Jim Nichol, Bruce Rooney, Sally Smith, Edith Walden, and Dennis Wyatt. Absent were Carl Meinzinger, Jon Prescott, and Connie Snell. Mark Antoncich, Bill Van Vlack, and Jackie Wittman attended as visitors.

Jim Nichol led the meeting. The minutes were adopted.

It was reported that Given Kutz from Public Works stated by email that the county would not necessarily consider South Shore Road to be a private road if it were open only to local access traffic. The county would have to vacate the road before it would be declared private.

Roz Glasser and Edith Walden measured the existing bank along the east part of South Shore Road. At a rate of 6 inches per year of erosion, 50 feet of bank would be needed before the existing road would be in danger in the next 100 years. Orange flags mark the 50 foot mark. Using this measure, the road would be endangered in front of the Anderson property including Cayou Creek, the west corner of the Scott property, and some portion of the Hill property, which was not measured.

Paula Dekker spent a day at the county searching for information on existing easements. Keith Luna, a records technician, provided a disk with land records information for South Shore Road. Another contact in the Engineering Department will be trying to provide the history of easements for the alternate road, which were first secured in the 1970’s.

Bruce Rooney brought in a copy of a professional public lands survey that was recorded with the county in 2000 and given to him with the purchase of his property in 2004. The survey records 60 foot easements extending from Guemes Island Road through the Fohn development. It appears that this easement extends to the Schorr property and is current.

The committee spent the remainder of the time brainstorming ideas for placement of a road inland starting with the previously mentioned recorded easements and ending in the vicinity of Glencoe Lane. Several landowners expressed a willingness to have a road go through or close to their properties. Others indicated a willingness to consider the possibility. One owner was willing to have a house moved to facilitate the road.

The agenda for next week is to follow up with discussions with other landowners who were not present at the meeting and to come up with other possible alternative road configurations.

The meeting was adjourned.

Submitted by Edith Walden