• Topics to Consider for Comprehensive Plan Comments

    Posted on October 21, 2024

    Here are some topics to consider when composing your own comments to the Commissioners for the Public Hearing on October 28, 2024, 5:30pm.

    1) Add Natural Character to the 2025 Year of the Rural focus: We are pleased that the County did not rezone in rural areas this year and plans to address both rural rezoning and farmland issues in 2025. Please expand the 2025 focus to include attention to nature as a whole to make significant strides in protecting our environment in both rural and urban areas. […]

  • Keep Kitsap Green

    Posted on October 8, 2024

    Keep Kitsap Green!

    Your Kitsap County Commissioners are finalizing a Comprehensive Plan that will shape the county’s future for the next twenty years.
    Email them now and let them know you want to adopt and enforce a Comprehensive Plan that will:
    • Protect the environment
    • Preserve a healthy balance of natural, rural, and urban areas.
    • Advance Kitsap County through thoughtful progress that benefits all who live here – including wildlife.

    Email:
    District 1 – Christine Rolfes – crolfes@kitsap.gov
    District 2 – Charlotte Garrido – cgarrido@kitsap.gov
    District 3 – Katie Walters – kwalters@kitsap.gov

  • Comment Letter on Critical Areas Ordinance

    Posted on August 10, 2024

    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 and buffers and effective enforcement of the Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO).

    Towards those goals, we present a checklist of items that presently reduce the effectiveness of, or even block, the Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO). These items are mostly external to the Ordinance itself and cannot be fully addressed by amending the code. Nonetheless, they need to be corrected for the CAO to be effective.[…]

  • Comments re: KC Public Works on the TIPS

    Posted on May 11, 2024

    Reviewing the draft report on the North Sound to Olympics Trail Study (NSTO), two things stand out: 

    Public Comments, Appendix A
    And overall project cost, Appendix F
    Reading the public comments in Appendix A confirms that there is overwhelming community opposition to going through North Kitsap Heritage Park, even from people who ride bicycles. […]

  • Critical Areas Ordinance – Comments Part 6

    Posted on May 10, 2024

    9. NO NET LOSS OF ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS, NO ADVERSE IMPACT, and MONITORING

    The current CAO has two performance criteria for wetland buffer decreases:  (1) “provide as great or greater functions and values as…under the standard buffer”  (also referred to as “equivalent functions and values”) and (2) “no adverse impact” for buffer averaging. […}