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Hearing examiner reviews mitigation-heavy variance to reduce wetland buffer for new house in South Kitsap
Summary
Kitsap County staff recommended a Type 3 critical area variance to allow construction of a 2,300-square-foot single-family house and driveway to encroach to a 33-foot minimum buffer from a Category III wetland on a 3.52-acre South Kitsap parcel; staff and the applicant presented a mitigation package that includes removal of existing driveway, 49,
Hearing Examiner Emily Terrell opened a Type 3 public hearing May 8 on a critical areas variance requested by Ryan Morton to reduce the wetland buffer for a Category III wetland on a 3.52-acre parcel in South Kitsap.
Jeff Smith, senior planner with the Kitsap County Department of Community Development, said the applicant proposes a 2,300-square-foot single-family home and associated infrastructure and requests relief from KCC critical-area buffer provisions so portions of the house and driveway would approach the wetland buffer to a minimum of 33 feet at the narrowest point. Smith described the site as roughly 600 by 285 feet, wooded with conifers and deciduous trees, currently occupied by a 1974 manufactured home used as a temporary special-care mobile home. The property is zoned Rural…
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