Kitsap County staff propose limited 2025 administrative code edits; public hearing opened and comment period extended

Kitsap County long-range planning supervisor Colin Poff presented a limited package of administrative code edits on April 15 that would amend Title 16 (land division and development) and Title 17 (zoning) to add clarifying cross-references, correct inconsistencies, and incorporate recently adopted state-driven changes.

Poff described the project as a routine annual-style update intended to be narrower in scope than a comprehensive code overhaul. He said staff limited this round to items that could move quickly through adoption and that more substantive Title 12 and Title 21 updates would be deferred to separate processes.

Key proposed edits include: adding references in land-division submittal requirements to Kitsap County's recently adopted tree canopy standards (adopted in the 2024 comprehensive-plan process) where tree-canopy demonstration is applicable to plats and short plats; cleaning up a compact-parking definition to match the parking chapter; restoring "outdoor storage" as an allowed use with accompanying screening standards and asking the commission whether…