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Adjacent owner asks whether easement and driveway access will remain after Knoll Point work
Summary
A property owner with a driveway easement that crosses the site asked whether relinquishing a city easement would preserve access through the unimproved county right-of-way. The applicant said Kitsap County has approved frontage improvements and the developer will coordinate relocation and access with the county.
Doreen Malone, who owns property northeast of the Knoll Point site, told the hearing she has an existing driveway easement that crosses the applicant's parcel and asked whether she would retain guaranteed access if she relinquished the city easement.
Planner Edie Berghof pointed the hearing to Exhibit 44, the driveway agreement, as relevant to Malone's concern. Applicant Jeff Sherwin said he and his team have coordinated with Kitsap County in developing frontage improvements and that the county had accepted plans that retained a usable access arrangement. Sherwin said the driveway would be paved and the developer would work with Malone on relocation and access options, and that the county appears to be amenable to preserving the unimproved county right-of-way as a functional access route.
Berghof and Sherwin said the city-limits portion of the existing easement would be removed and replaced by a new paved driveway connection; staff offered to follow up with Malone after the hearing and noted the driveway agreement is in the record as Exhibit 44.
