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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2019 19:17:28 GMT
The CDAO and Associates appeals to the Coos County Planning Commission to deny issuing the City of North Bend a permit to create and maintain Bio-Sludge waste disposal cites. This is a replacement post about Bio-Sludge waste sites to replace the one I deleted.
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Post by Admin on Aug 14, 2019 3:48:25 GMT
Jody McCaffree
PO Box 1113
North Bend, OR 97459
June 9, 2017
Hearings Officer
Coos County Planning Department
225 N. Adams St.
Coquille OR 97423
Re: Application under Coos County File Nos. CD-15-206
Dear Hearings Officer:
Please accept the following comments into the record on Coos County File Nos. CD-15-206.
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or Eco facts, and cultural landscapes.
A cultural landscape, as defined by the World Heritage Committee, is the "cultural properties
1[that] represent the combined works of nature and of man."
1. "a landscape designed and created intentionally by man"
2. an "organically evolved landscape" which may be a "relict (or fossil) landscape" or a "continuing landscape"
3. an "associative cultural landscape" which may be valued because of the "religious, artistic or cultural associations of the natural element.
The World Heritage Committee has identified and listed a number of areas or properties as cultural landscapes of universal value to humankind, including the following:
Rice Terraces of Philippine Cordilleras (1995)
The Batad rice terraces, The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, the first site to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List cultural landscape category in 1995.
"For 2,000 years, the high rice fields of the Ifugao have followed the contours of the mountains. The fruit of knowledge handed down from one generation to the next, and the expression of sacred traditions and a delicate social balance, they have helped to create a landscape of great beauty that expresses the harmony between humankind and the environment."
1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_landscape
McCaffree comments on CD-15-206 – June 9, 2017
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Post by Admin on Aug 14, 2019 4:01:14 GMT
As stated in the Coos Bay Estuary Management Plan (CBEMP) Policy 18
…protection of cultural, historical and archaeological sites is not only a community's social responsibility; it is also legally required by ORS 97.745. It also recognizes that cultural, historical and archaeological sites are non-renewable cultural resources.
ORS 97.750 states:
(1) Except as provided in ORS 97.750 (Permitted acts), no person shall willfully remove, mutilate, deface, injure or destroy any cairn, burial, human remains, funerary object, sacred object or object of cultural patrimony of any native Indian. Persons disturbing native Indian cairns or burials through inadvertence, including by construction, mining, logging or agricultural activity, shall at their own expense reinter the human remains or funerary object under the supervision of the appropriate Indian tribe. …
The property that is the subject of this permit application is known as Graveyard point and was named that due to tribal members being buried there. I know of nowhere else in the world where society allows burial sites to be desecrated with sewer sludge. How is it the that the City of North Bend was not required to show other alternative sites that would be further away from these areas of significance?
The Coos County Shore land Values Requiring Mandatory Protection Map, a section of which is copied below, shows the Graveyard Point area to be an area of Archeological significance that requires mandatory protection.
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