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Keep Kitsap Green
Posted on October 8, 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:
District 1 – Christine Rolfes – crolfes@kitsap.gov
District 2 – Charlotte Garrido – cgarrido@kitsap.gov
District 3 – Katie Walters – kwalters@kitsap.gov -
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. […] -
Critical Areas Ordinance – Comments Part 6
Posted on May 10, 2024Continue reading9. NO NET LOSS OF ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS, NO ADVERSE IMPACT, and MONITORING
The current CAO has two performance criteria for wetland buffer decreases: (1) “provide as great or greater functions and values as…under the standard buffer” (also referred to as “equivalent functions and values”) and (2) “no adverse impact” for buffer averaging. […}
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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