• The Role of Park Stewardship Program in Heritage Parks

    Posted on March 12, 2025

    Stewardship Roles

    The park Stewardship Program has operated for decades as community-based groups of concerned citizens organized to maintain and enhance the county’s heritage parks, often acting independently addressing approved park projects. This system worked well with little expense or staff time from Parks and was recognized in the 2018 PROS Plan. Park users frequently express appreciation of steward’s efforts. Over the last four years, this system has been gutted […]

  • KEC Letter to Extend Review PROS Plan 2025

    Posted on March 8, 2025

    Dear Board of County Commissioners:

    Kitsap Environmental Coalition is requesting a public comment period extension until the end of March for three major reasons.

    This is the first time the public is seeing a draft of the 2025 PROS Plan.
    The DRAFT released for public review on February 11 is not an update, but a full rewrite of the PROS Plan, with several radical changes from 2018 that require sufficient time for a serious review by the public and important stakeholders. The document is overdue by months, but that should not short circuit reviews of a draft that should have been done at earlier stages of development. […]

  • Arborwood Development Agreement – Extension

    Posted on January 29, 2025

    Arborwood Development Agreement – Extension

    The Public Hearing is scheduled for February 3rd, 5:30 pm, for the County Commissioners to decide whether to extend the Development Agreement for the Arborwood project in Kingston. The Commissioners need to hear from the community, the residents who will be most impacted by this large-scale 751-unit subdivision.

    Speak up now, before it is too late. …

  • RCW 42.30.010

    Posted on December 28, 2024

    RCW 42.30.010  Legislative declaration.

    The legislature finds and declares that all public commissions, boards, councils, committees, subcommittees, departments, divisions, offices, and all other public agencies of this state and subdivisions thereof exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business. It is the intent of this chapter that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly.

  • Keep Kitsap Green

    Posted on December 7, 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: Kitsapcommissioners@kitsap.gov