• 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

  • 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. […]

  • 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. […}

  • Critical Areas Ordinance – Comments Part 5

    Posted on May 8, 2024

    7. SPECIALISTS AND REPORTS

    There are multiple ecological functions of buffers. Evaluation of functions may require expertise in wetlands, streams, habitat, soil science, hydrology, hydrogeology, and/or stormwater.

    Currently, the department appears to rely entirely on wetland reports and habitat management plans from wetland specialists and fish/wildlife biologists, respectively. However, their expertise may not extend to all the technical areas necessary for adequate evaluation of buffer functions. […}