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  • Arborwood Development Agreement – Extension

    Arborwood Development Agreement – Extension

    The Public Hearing is scheduled for February 3rd, 5:30 pm, for the County Commissioners to decide whether to extend the Development Agreement for the Arborwood project in Kingston. The Commissioners need to hear from the community, the residents who will be most impacted by this large-scale 751-unit subdivision.

    Speak up now, before it is too late. …

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  • RCW 42.30.010

    RCW 42.30.010  Legislative declaration.

    The legislature finds and declares that all public commissions, boards, councils, committees, subcommittees, departments, divisions, offices, and all other public agencies of this state and subdivisions thereof exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business. It is the intent of this chapter that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly.

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  • Keep Kitsap Green

    Keep 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

    Here 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

    Dear 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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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.

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