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Port Orchard land use panel reviews 2025 comprehensive plan docket, considers rezones on Old Clifton Road
Summary
City staff outlined the items on the 2025 comprehensive plan docket — including a Sherman Avenue stormwater park appendix, a correction to a capital facilities cost estimate filed by McCormick Communities, and a property-owner request to convert industrial parcels on Old Clifton Road to residential due to lack of industrial access.
The Port Orchard Land Use Committee on Feb. 19 reviewed the city’s 2025 comprehensive plan docket and staff recommendations, and told members the final docket will go to the City Council the following week.
Nick Bond, community development director, told the committee the filing deadline under POMC 20.04 was Jan. 31 and staff received a mix of city‑initiated and applicant‑initiated amendments. He said city‑initiated items include adding the Sherman Avenue stormwater park master plan as an appendix if that master plan is finished, and routine updates to the capital facilities element and the transportation improvement program.
The discussion included three applicant‑initiated items Bond described as relatively minor and one larger request. McCormick Communities filed to correct a cost estimate in the capital facilities element; staff identified the estimate in the plan as about $1 million when the city’s water system plan lists roughly $1.5 million. Bond said staff…
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