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Kitsap staff previews public process for 'Year of the Rural' rural and resource lands update
Summary
Kitsap County planners outlined the public engagement, SEPA and state transmittal steps for a September draft of the rural and resource lands chapter, potential code updates and remaining reclassification requests; staff plans work studies, hearings and a December adoption timeline.
Heather Cleveland, a long-range planner with the Kitsap County Department of Community Development, briefed the Planning Commission on July 15 about the public process for the county's "Year of the Rural" project, which will update the rural and resource lands chapter of the comprehensive plan, consider potential code updates and make recommendations on reclassification requests.
Cleveland summarized required steps under state law and county code for comprehensive-plan changes and legislative actions, and she said the county will coordinate State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) review and transmittal to state agencies. "We'll work over the next six weeks to determine" whether a SEPA addendum…
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