Use the following information gathered by the KEC Working Group to inform your own comments (Inventory & Assessment section) here: PROS Plan Public Comment Form

Relationship to Existing County Policy Documents

Relationship to Existing Plans: The draft PROS Plan inadequately draws on important existing documents such as the 2024 Comprehensive Plan and the 2018 PROS Plan.

On 2/27 Carmen Smith, Parks planner provided Appendix G and H that were missing from the PROS Plan draft document. Appendix G, Review of Previous Plans, is the one referred to on p. 18 of the plan. Page 18 says “In Appendix X[G], the relevant goals and policies from each of these plans have been recoded and analyzed. “The documents listed are:

• Kitsap County Comprehensive Plan
• Kitsap County Habitat Conservation Plans
• Kitsap County Non-Motorized Facility Plan
• Port Gamble Heritage Park Draft Framework
• Specific Park Master Plans and Supporting Documents

Appendix G provides information on only the following documents: 

• Integrated Forest Stewardship policy (2012, Revised 2015)
• Management Plan for Banner Forest Heritage Park (2015)
• Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park Draft Framework (2022)
• Great Peninsula Conservancy Conservation Plan (2021-2025) (email from Carmen says “Kitsap County Habitat Conservation Plans” in list in report is actually this one from GPC)

These would be the last two items listed on p. 18. (PGFHP draft Framework and Specific Park Master Plans and Supporting Documents)

However, note that the North Kitsap Heritage Park (NKHP) draft plan was not included. It was prepared in 2019.

Importantly, no information is provided on the analysis of the first three documents:

• Kitsap County Comprehensive Plan
• Kitsap County Habitat Conservation Plans
• Kitsap County Non-Motorized Facility Plan

Also, the 2018 PROS Plan is not included in this list as a document that was analyzed for its goals and policies.

Note the major difference between the documents that were analyzed as given in Appendix G. They are all park specific documents. These first three documents plus the 2018 PROS Plan are the broader context documents within which Parks is situated. These appear to have not been analyzed. 

Relationship to County Policy Documents: As noted above, the draft PROS Plan is missing an analysis of the big picture documents—the policy documents—within which the new PROS Plan should be situated. The Kitsap County 2024 Comprehensive Plan, the Kitsap County Habitat Conservation Plans, the Kitsap County Non-Motorized Facility Plan, and the 2018 PROS plan present the policy context for the new PROS Plan. Yet this analysis is not provided in the draft PROS plan. 

Here is an example of the consequences of the lack of analysis of county policy documents:

• The 2024 Comprehensive Plan is based on Alternative 2 Land Use which focused on increased density in the UGAs. This is fundamentally different from Alternative 1 (the continuation of previous land use practices) and Alternative 3 (sprawl into rural areas.)

An important implication for the PROS plan would seem to be how to increase parks, recreation, and open space is UGAs. This would likely involve increases in parks, recreation, and open space in the Silverdale and Kingston UGAs since both are intended to become incorporated cities within the 20 years of the Comp Plan (by 2044). 

The 2025 amendment to the 2024 Comp Plan has a special focus on the Silverdale Subarea Planning and Design Districts. Given this important focus, the PROS plan needs special attention to parks, recreations, and open space that would serve the Silverdale UGA and under what conditions. Buried on p. 98 in the Draft PROS Plan is reference to the need for more community parks but it is scarcely mentioned otherwise.

Analysis of the relationship between the Habitat Conservation Plan, Non-Motorized Facility Plan, and 2018 PROS Plan are similarly important for establishing the foundation for the 2025 PROS Plan.

Use this information gathered by the KEC Working Group to inform your own comments (Inventory & Assessment section) here: PROS Plan Public Comment Form

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