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Kitsap County outlines four-phase Lund Avenue corridor projects, construction to start this summer
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Summary
Kitsap County engineers presented a four-project plan for Lund Avenue — including two roundabouts and sidewalk/bike improvements — funded with a mix of state TIB, REIT, federal and local funds; early bids came in under engineers' estimates and the county plans neighborhood outreach and pre-construction meetings.
Kitsap County staff updated the Port Orchard City Council on planned Lund Avenue corridor work, describing four coordinated projects phased over the next three summers.
Anthony Burgess, capital program manager for Kitsap County Public Works, outlined phases covering Harris–Chase (large roundabout and corridor improvements), the Chase roundabout, the Hoover roundabout, and a Chase–Jackson segment. He described multimodal additions including 6–10 foot sidewalks, 5-foot bike lanes where feasible, a paved shared-use path adjacent to the park, refreshed park access and stormwater improvements including a large underground treatment vault.
Burgess said the combined funding package is approximately $4.3 million in one phase and roughly $4.0 million in another, using state TIB, REIT and local funds, while successful bids have come in substantially under engineer estimates (one low bid at about $2,082,000; another project low bid just under $3,000,000). He told the council Harris–Chase is expected to begin as early as the end of the month with the Chase roundabout following roughly two months later; the Harris–Chase segment is estimated at 120 working days and the Chase roundabout at about 80 working days.
Council members asked about bike-lane continuity, pedestrian crossings near the park, landscaping within roundabouts and coordination of public outreach. Burgess said the county will coordinate door-to-door outreach with impacted businesses, use project webpages and story maps for details, and hold pre-construction meetings with contractors and school-district staff for bus routing.
Burgess and council members emphasized outreach coordination with city communications and acknowledged tradeoffs on roundabout aesthetics and right-of-way impacts. The projects moved forward with the county planning construction sequencing to limit overlap, and staff said they will continue outreach and coordination with the city ahead of work starting.
