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Get Involved in Kitsap’s Comp Plan Update
Kitsap County is updating its Comprehensive Plan—a blueprint for local policies, planning and capital facility investment with long-term implications for Kitsap residents’ quality of life and the county’s environmental health. It’s important that you make your views known to the county commissioners, advisory groups and staff involved in this planning process at complan@kitsap.gov. […]
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Ten Principles for the Preferred Land Use Decision
On March 26, the Kitsap County Planning Commission released its recommendation for the preferred land use alternative for the County’s 2024 Comprehensive Plan. We of the Kitsap Environmental Coalition (KEC) Steering Committee support the direction of the recommendation and we look forward to continuing to work with the County toward the completion of this Plan that will define the future of Kitsap. That work should be guided, we believe, by the following principles
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KEC Presents: Earth-Soil-Plant-Animal-Humans…The Environmental Cost of our Food
Our Conversations about Climate Action for April explores the relationships that form our food with three films: Eating Our Way to Extinction, Into the Soil: The Wisdom of Regenerative Farming, and Changing Paradigms: The Power of Regenerative Agriculture. Our guest speaker, Renee Ziemann from Full Tilth Farm, will join our conversation about community support of local farming […]
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Planning Commission Hearing 3.5 – Voice Your Comments
Don’t miss this important opportunity to make your public comment about the Comprehensive Plan. The County Planning Commission makes recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners about the Comprehensive Plan. The Planning Commission has a public hearing scheduled on Tuesday March 5th at 5:30pm. […]
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KEC Presents: Beyond Climate
Beyond Climate takes viewers beyond the headlines and into the heart of the issues. Renowned environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki holistically connects the larger patterns of climate change with the human dimension, and what it looks like across from across the Salish Sea to the Okanogan Valley. […]
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Bioblitz at PGFHP on April 27
Save the date: April 27 for a Bioblitz at PGFHP. Help our Kitsap Parks Dept. inventory plants, animals, and fungi in their natural environment. Team up with animal and plant experts to find, observe, identify, and document park wildlife. All ages are welcome, including children accompanied by adults. Learn more, and register. […]
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Comment to Planners: Better Transportation Planning
Reclassifying rural property that encourages sprawl instead of focusing on growth in Urban Growth Areas will prevent Kitsap County from successfully enacting Comprehensive Plan policies and strategies for transportation and the new climate goals. Urban Growth Areas provide opportunities for multimodal transportation, focusing on routes that move people efficiently through centralized areas.
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Comment to Planners: Tree Retention & Farm Support
I support Comp Plan Alternative 2 with focused growth in Urban Growth Areas. Plus, I encourage the adoption of tree retention. We need to build the health of rural and open spaces in Kitsap through the adoption of Net Ecological Gain and support our local farms, especially our small farmers who are struggling.
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Comment to Planners: Riparian Management Zones
In contrast to current stream buffers in the prior CAO, Best Available Science calls for a broader perspective on what riparian management zones can do to protect streams, the salmon that rely upon them, and other wildlife that use these corridors. Site Potential Tree Height protects the natural environment we rely upon.
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Comment to Planners: Regulatory Capture
In the last ten years, I have seen acres of forest and their wildlife disappear. Overdevelopment is eradicating the natural beauty that brought me to Kitsap. Is this because the regulatory bodies supposed to control growth and protect the environment instead act on the premise that any development, anywhere, should happen, if at all possible?
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