• Release: To Protect Kitsap’s Environment and Prevent Sprawl, Restrict Future Development to Urban Areas, Group Urges County

    The Kitsap Environmental Coalition (KEC) is calling on Kitsap County to adopt policies that concentrate future population growth in existing urban areas and discourage the sprawl of suburban-like tracts that are threatening Kitsap’s beautiful natural environment. KEC President David Onstad, PhD said, “The choices are really quite stark. Either we continue the current approach, […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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.

  • 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.