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Port Orchard planners review draft critical areas ordinance, propose pre-application verification

Port Orchard Planning Commission · July 4, 2025
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Port Orchard Planning Commission members received an update July 1 on a draft revision of the city's Critical Areas Ordinance, Port Orchard Municipal Code chapter 20.162.

Port Orchard Planning Commission members received an update July 1 on a draft revision of the city's Critical Areas Ordinance, Port Orchard Municipal Code chapter 20.162. Principal Planner Jim Fiske said the update is part of the 2024 comprehensive plan implementation and is intended to ensure compliance with the Growth Management Act and to reflect the best available science.

"Tonight we'd like to provide an update on the city's efforts to revise our critical areas ordinance, Port Orchard Municipal Code, chapter 20.162," Jim Fiske said. He told commissioners that staff refreshed a public comment matrix and reorganized the draft for clarity.

The draft proposes several substantive changes,…

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