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PROS Plan 2025 – Overview of KEC Comments
Posted on March 12, 2025Continue readingThe 2025 draft PROS (Parks, Recreation, and Open Space) Plan is now available for public review. The public comment period ends in a few days—Sunday, March 16, 2025. You need to use the PROS Plan Public Comment link to submit your comments.
This is the first and only time that the Parks Department has scheduled for you to review this policy document. (It is unusual that there is only one opportunity for public review of a draft of such an important policy document.) The document includes major changes […]
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Organization of PROS Plan
Posted on March 12, 2025Continue readingOrganization of PROS Plan
The organization of the plan needs improvement. Here are examples of improvements needed in the organization of the plan:
Figure 1-1(p.8) appears to be a depiction of the order of the chapters. The Demand and Needs Analysis chapter is shown as coming before the Goals and Objectives chapter. These are reversed in the text.
Most of the first four pages of the Overview and the Demand & Needs Analysis chapter seems more logically to fit in the Inventory & Assessment chapter which provides background and the general picture of the context for the PROS Plan. […] -
Public Involvement Survey Data Presentation and Analysis
Posted on March 12, 2025Continue readingPublic Involvement Survey Data Presentation and Analysis
The Public Involvement section (p. 46-84) has data presentation and analysis problems. The survey data has been inadequately analyzed and data from multiple data collection methods has not been integrated into meaningful presentations and interpretations.
The lack of adequate analysis is evident in the separate Appendix document that provides the survey responses. It is simply a listing of responses with the most minimal analysis. […]
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Capital Improvement Plan
Posted on March 12, 2025Continue readingCapital Improvement Plan
The foundation for the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) is framed around four themes —(a) Conservation and Landscape Resiliency; (b) Connectivity and Trail Development; (c) Access and Safety; and (d) Recreation Facilities and Amenities. However, the prioritization among these themes is not clear nor are the priorities among the long list of possible CIP projects. […]
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PROS Plan Vision
Posted on March 12, 2025Continue readingPROS Plan Vision
The vision expressed in the Draft PROS Plan is not appropriately connected to the Vision expressed in the 2024 Kitsap County Comprehensive Plan and the public survey data.
Pages 101 and following has the county’s 2024 Comp Plan Vision, however, it is mixed with the vision of the Parks Department staff in a confusing way. Information in these pages gives the impression that the vision for the PROS Plan is being limited by the vision of the Parks Department staff. The vision in the 2024 Comp Plan and responses of the public in Parks data gathering for the PROS Plan development is more appropriate to primarily guide the PROS Plan vision. […]
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Relationship to Existing County Policy Documents
Posted on March 12, 2025Continue readingRelationship 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. […]
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