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.

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Keep Kitsap Green

Keep Kitsap Green: Save Our County from Uncontrolled Development Download and share the Keep Kitsap Green flyer.

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Setting the Record Straight on the NSTO

In a Letter to the Editor of Sound Publishing regarding the so-called “preferred route” from Kingston to Port Gamble article, Doug Hayman writes: “The majority of the public is in…

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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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