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…

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Comments re: KC Public Works on the TIPS

Comments given on May 8, 2024 at the Kingston Community Advisory Council Reviewing the draft report on the North Sound to Olympics Trail Study (NSTO), two things stand…

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Critical Areas Ordinance – Comments Part 6

COMMENTS FROM THE KEC WORKING COMMITTEE ON THE PROPOSED CAO – continued 9. NO NET LOSS OF ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS, NO ADVERSE IMPACT, and MONITORING The…

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Critical Areas Ordinance – Comments Part 5

COMMENTS FROM THE KEC WORKING COMMITTEE ON THE PROPOSED CAO – continued 7. SPECIALISTS AND REPORTS There are multiple ecological functions of buffers. Evaluation of…

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Critical Areas Ordinance – Comments Part 4

COMMENTS FROM THE KEC WORKING COMMITTEE ON THE PROPOSED CAO – continued 5. BOUNDARY MARKING AND MEMORIALIZATION For critical area or buffer boundaries to be…

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Critical Areas Ordinance – Comments Part 3

COMMENTS FROM THE KEC WORKING COMMITTEE ON THE PROPOSED CAO – continued 3. BUFFER INTEGRITY We support elimination of the bad buffer bonus in proposed…

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Critical Areas Ordinance – Comments Part 2

COMMENTS FROM THE KEC WORKING COMMITTEE ON THE PROPOSED CAO CLARITY Standard buffer widths. Actual standard buffer widths must be inferred. Tables 19.200.220(B) through…

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Critical Areas Ordinance – Comments Part 1

To: Commissioners Rolfes, Garrido and Walters, and Chairman Phillips and members of the Kitsap County Planning Commission. Re: Comments on the Critical Areas Ordinance. Following…

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Breaking Bud Forest Walk

  Come see the Tahuya Headwaters Creek legacy forest in Kitsap County, DNR was planning to log…

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KEC Presents: Growing Healthy Soils to Feed the World

In the documentary Into the Soil, we follow Brigid LeFevre, who runs a community-supported…

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