(1) Clallam County should ensure that land use plans and regulations provide an environment conducive to business development, consistent with economic goals and objectives and protection of the public health, safety and welfare. Land use plans and regulations should provide sufficient opportunities for siting businesses without long delays in the permit process.

(2) Clallam Bay and Sekiu should focus their economic development efforts on upgrading visitor facilities, local attractions, pedestrian amenities and streetscape with the goal of gradually developing into a destination resort community. Streetside landscaping and commercial building design must be improved in Joyce, Clallam Bay and Sekiu and hotel/motel resources in Clallam Bay and Sekiu must be upgraded to attract moderate and high income tourists.

(a) High quality landscaping and building design guidelines should be implemented in the communities of Joyce, Clallam Bay and Sekiu in order to transform these communities into regional tourism attractors. Joyce could work towards retaining compatibility with historic structures, while Clallam Bay and Sekiu would work towards the appearance of attractive coastal villages.

(c) County Park facilities in Clallam Bay should provide for a village green fronting on the downtown commercial core in order to provide a public space for downtown activities and to attract more visitors to utilize this outstanding beach.

(3) Expansion or diversification of the Clallam Bay Corrections Center is encouraged as this facility is a major employer which lends employment stability to this region.

(4) Improve local resident and tourism access to and along the Clallam Bay and Sekiu marine shorelines.

(c) Transportation improvement funding should be sought for development of a waterfront bikeway/pedestrian trail paralleling Highway 112 which would connect the communities of Clallam Bay and Sekiu. This two (2) mile trail would provide a nonmotorized connection between the two (2) communities, enhance recreational uses in the vicinity of the shoreline, provide local residents with a safe walking and bicycle path and be utilized by visitors to the local motels and RV parks. Any proposed trail development should maximize use of public right-of-way. The bikeway/pedestrian trail should be subject to local review and recommendations of the Clallam Bay and Sekiu Community Council and should be coordinated with the commercial core improvement district plan.

(5) The Port of Port Angeles must be encouraged to maintain the Sekiu Airport in full operation as it would be vital to attract fly-in tourism to this remote location.

(6) The communities of Joyce, Clallam Bay, Sekiu and Neah Bay should work to enhance the number of summertime and off-season tourist activities in order to stimulate the local economy and to create added regional exposure. Events such as airport fly-ins, diving, sailboarding, biking, hunting, fishing, horseback riding, motorcycle events, beach walks, arts and craft fairs should be encouraged.

(7) Development of regional attractions such as a Sekiu boardwalk, community biking trail, community pool and the Clallam Bay fishing pier should be regional economic development priorities. Grants, timber and fishing impact funding and community development monies could be examined as possible funding sources for regional tourism attractions.

(8) Clallam County should coordinate and work with Olympic National Park to ensure that decisions made by the Park do not negatively impact tourism and recreational uses in the West End. Park policies which limit beach access, limit use of park facilities or result in trail closures should be reviewed with the local communities to ensure these communities are not further impacted by government restrictions.

(9) Further funding for Jobs for the Environment projects should be sought for long-term stream restoration, development of habitat ponds and stream related fish rearing areas in the Straits Planning Region.

(10) Local, State and the federal government should encourage economic development, emphasized within urban growth areas, by encouraging the development and expansion of water, sewer, and transportation infrastructure and then encouraging new businesses to locate in those areas.

(11) Commercial and industrial zones within urban growth areas should allow mixed uses in order to encourage more opportunities to site a business. For example, light manufacturing should be allowed in commercial areas while retail should be allowed in industrial areas.

(12) Industrial land use designations should be established adjacent to the Clallam Bay Corrections Facility. This site could be utilized by either prison related industries or private industrial concerns.

(13) The quality of the environment and its aesthetic beauty should be protected in order to attract tourists and new business which desire to locate in a quality environment enjoyed on the Olympic Peninsula. The commercial forestlands, rural areas and urban areas in the Straits Planning Region are working environments for local employment but within this context the scenic beauty of the area and the quality of the environment can be maintained through careful stewardship by the property owners.

(14) Recreational development that provides attractions to tourists and citizens in the area should be encouraged. Expanded and enhanced multi-use trail systems should be constructed with links to area attractions. Examples of appropriate developments include master-planned resorts located at Crescent Beach or at Clallam Bay. Reasonable public access to shorelines should be required with master-planned resort development. Developers seeking such opportunities in the County should be directed to these sites.

(15) Resource-based industries should continue to be supported, including reasonable conservation of forest and agricultural lands, and processing of raw materials.

(16) Bed and breakfast inns, home occupations, artisans, retreat centers, conference centers and home-based industries should be encouraged in the Straits Planning Region.

(17) The Port and EDC should be encouraged to examine the feasibility of creating business incubator facilities in Clallam Bay and Joyce.

(18) State colleges should be encouraged to provide televised, interactive classroom instruction to West End high schools so that college courses could be taken by interested parties living in this area.

(19) Large private forest landowners and public forest managers should be encouraged to utilize more local labor to offset resource-related job loss in the West End.

(20) Aquaculture (freshwater and saltwater) research projects should only be encouraged in designated areas in the Straits Planning Region. Clallam County should support industries seeking grant funding for research projects. Research should focus on the development of an aquaculture industry that does not pollute, endanger native stocks, that enhances rather than displaces recreational and native commercial fishing, and that evaluates the effect of private use of a public resource. Clallam County should encourage the development of a locally based toxic shellfish monitoring program.

(21) Development of a shellfish and algae farming industry is strongly encouraged in the Straits Planning Region.

(22) Continuing research and development of upland aquaculture projects and on-shore hatcheries, including freshwater projects, are encouraged in the Straits Planning Region. Aquaculture research projects, development of a fish farming industry, and development of on-shore hatcheries are encouraged in the west end of the Straits Planning Region.

(23) Clallam County should identify areas in the Straits of Juan de Fuca that would be appropriate locations for aquaculture research and aquaculture development projects. Shorelines which abut commercial forestlands between the area west of Murdock Creek and east of the East Twin River are appropriate locations for aquaculture projects in the Eastern Straits Region as land use conflicts and visual conflicts are reduced.

(24) Clallam County should support the aquaculture industry in development of a programmatic environmental impact statement on use of identified areas in the Straits for aquaculture. Permitting processes for aquaculture projects should be streamlined.

(25) Clallam County working in association with the EDC should investigate opportunities for light industrial development in the Joyce and Clallam Bay/Sekiu urban growth areas and seek grant funding to support such development.

(26) Clallam County should work to encourage the commercial and sport/recreational fishing industry. Projects which would tend to enhance commercial and sports/recreational fisheries should be supported.

(27) Clallam County shall place a high priority on purchasing the rights to marine shorelines from willing sellers when such properties become available in order to foster public access points and allow the public to cross shoreline areas. Such a program would foster the growth of tourism and could be financed through voter approved bonds, through real estate excise tax provisions, through the Conservation Futures Program or by other financing methods.

(28) Fresh and saltwater resources contribute to the local economy through commercial and sports fishing, shellfish harvesting, breakwaters and boat launch facilities, public and private beach access, recreation, and water-based transportation, etc. These and other traditional uses of our water resources should be protected.

(29) Permitting processes for economic development projects shall be streamlined.

(30) Efforts to restore fish populations such as hatcheries, fish rearing, etc., should benefit both commercial and sport fishing industries. Clallam County should support restoration efforts of salmonid species that historically were the primary inhabitants of the Peninsula’s rivers such as chinook and coho – not chum.