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Kitsap staff outline "Year of the Rural" plan, preview September 2 draft and hearings
Summary
Kitsap County Department of Community Development staff briefed the Planning Commission on the "Year of the Rural" update to the county's Comprehensive Plan, describing outreach, draft deliverables and a public-comment schedule that begins Sept. 2 and leads to a proposed Dec. 8 adoption date.
Kitsap County Department of Community Development planner Heather Cleveland told the Planning Commission on Aug. 5 that the department will publish a 60% draft of the county's rural and resource lands chapter on Sept. 2 and open a public comment period that runs through Oct. 3. "We will be publishing this draft of our deliverables on September 2," Cleveland said during a briefing titled the "Year of the Rural."
The briefing summarized work done since the county's 2024 Comprehensive Plan adoption and outlined outreach the department says informed the update, including two public surveys (one with more than 1,000 comments and a second with about 100 technical responses), workshops in the three commission districts, tribal coordination meetings and consultations with groups such as the Kitsap County Child Care Task Force and the Great Peninsula Conservancy. Cleveland described deliverables as the rural and resource lands chapter update, potential code changes and staff recommendations on…
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