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Keep Kitsap Green
Posted on December 7, 2024Continue readingKeep Kitsap Green!
Your Kitsap County Commissioners are finalizing a Comprehensive Plan that will shape the county’s future for the next twenty years.
Email them now and let them know you want to adopt and enforce a Comprehensive Plan that will:
• Protect the environment
• Preserve a healthy balance of natural, rural, and urban areas.
• Advance Kitsap County through thoughtful progress that benefits all who live here – including wildlife.Email: Kitsapcommissioners@kitsap.gov
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Topics to Consider for Comprehensive Plan Comments
Posted on October 21, 2024Continue readingHere are some topics to consider when composing your own comments to the Commissioners for the Public Hearing on October 28, 2024, 5:30pm.
1) Add Natural Character to the 2025 Year of the Rural focus: We are pleased that the County did not rezone in rural areas this year and plans to address both rural rezoning and farmland issues in 2025. Please expand the 2025 focus to include attention to nature as a whole to make significant strides in protecting our environment in both rural and urban areas. […]
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Comment Letter on Critical Areas Ordinance
Posted on August 10, 2024Continue readingDear Commissioners Garrido, Walters, and Rolfes,
We are happy to provide a summary of our July 22nd comments as Commissioner Rolfes requested. We seek protection of critical areas and buffers and effective enforcement of the Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO).
Towards those goals, we present a checklist of items that presently reduce the effectiveness of, or even block, the Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO). These items are mostly external to the Ordinance itself and cannot be fully addressed by amending the code. Nonetheless, they need to be corrected for the CAO to be effective.[…]
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Setting the Record Straight on the NSTO
Posted on July 13, 2024Continue readingIn a Letter to the Editor of Sound Publishing regarding the so-called “preferred route” from Kingston to Port Gamble article, Doug Hayman writes:
“Majority of the public is in opposition to plans to go through NKHP. There were three public meetings about this study. There was overwhelming opposition to the trail going through the North Kitsap Heritage Park and instead, calls for paths to connect various communities. […] -
Comments re: KC Public Works on the TIPS
Posted on May 11, 2024Continue readingReviewing the draft report on the North Sound to Olympics Trail Study (NSTO), two things stand out:
Public Comments, Appendix A
And overall project cost, Appendix F
Reading the public comments in Appendix A confirms that there is overwhelming community opposition to going through North Kitsap Heritage Park, even from people who ride bicycles. […]
KEC educates and advocates for safe and clean water, air, and soil to support the health of all life. We focus on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington. We envision an Ecological and Just County – where all people along with wildlife thrive and are treated justly. Humans are part of nature, not owners of it.
Kitsap Environmental Coalition is a community of people dedicated to healthy lands, water, and habitat. We focus on Kitsap County, Washington, and we partner with people in other counties as they encounter conflicts similar to ones we face.
We educate ourselves and others through in-depth research, public presentations, speakers, films, flyers, letters to the editor, mainstream media coverage, digital social media, newsletters, tabling at farmers markets, and peaceful picketing. To date, we have created a powerful force in our campaign for safe and sustainable forestry practices.
