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Article link on The Urbanist that is worth a read

It is a great article that accurately describes what we have seen in the last decades of development in Kitsap County. 

“Sleepwalking toward more Sprawl”

Kitsap County’s Proposed Comp Plan Sleepwalks Toward More Sprawl

Raydient is giving a presentation on January 24^th,  6:30 pm in the Village Green Community Center about the Bond Road Sports Complex. 

They‘ll be presenting more findings about their proposed project and will have a question-and-answer session after the presentation. 

Please come and be ready to ask questions - and voice why this project,  in that location,  is not a good fit for our community . 

Remember they have a lot of paid staff to work on making this look like a “ done deal”  

But we as citizens have a say, we need to keep speaking up. It is not a done deal. 

Also, the sports complex is separate from the request for a rezone, which has not even been approved yet. 

We need to keep showing up, and keep writing to the County Commissioners! 

See Invitation from Raydient

(Reported by Beth Nichols)
I tried to take some notes from tonight's meeting- presentation by North Kitsap United-- Here are a few rough things that stand out for me. 

(Video of this meeting will eventually be posted on the North Kitsap United website. Note that the NKU site is written by Raydient Corporation by their professional corporate staff.  Our website is completely written and managed by volunteers who live in this community.)

There were definitely lots of folks at the December 12 meeting  with significant concerns, and asking great questions.

-Sewage from homes and project could be up to 100,00 gallons a DAY ( the NKU report says 75,000 gallons a day, still a huge amount ) to be handled with on-site septic systems!-- On a Critical aquifer recharge area. THIS DOES NOT sound like a wise idea.

Big Questions about safety to our water and who would pay for the maintenance of that system over time

-Claims there are no wetlands and no streams, no stream channels on the property, they visited in October ???? They claim they will recheck in January – the County mapping does show streams

-Jon Rose admits traffic would be a huge challenge- would be a “fail” on several of the intersections with additional traffic on this new project

-Raydient / Rayonier will harvest ( clearcut) all the timber on the 400 acre property before the sale or rezone. 35 year old trees, planted in 1990, considered mature

-Jon Rose admitted that the best option for wildlife, for traffic, for water is to keep the land in 20 acre parcels.

- Clint Boxman, Rotary had a list of all the current sports facilities and how inadequate they are- but some new developments were left off the list, such as NKSD levy improvements, PERC, others coming on line that were left off in their review.

-Their feasibility study stated that the Tribes had NO comment on the proposal ( but in the Comp Plan the S'Klallam Tribe definitely opposes the rezone)

-YMCA says they are still in conversation with Poulsbo about having a site there, in the Poulsbo Event and Recreation Center area, which is already moving forward. ( Poulsbo officially opposes Raydient's proposal) 

-Concerns brought up about past dealings with Olympic Property Group, formerly Pope and now Raydient- current Arborwood development is an environmental disaster, Pope and Port Gamble cleanup with Pope leaving much of cleanup to taxpayers when they went bankrupt - Does this corporation really have the community's best interests in mind ??

- Growth Management act is meant to prevent sprawl and uncoordinated development in areas without infrastructure - this project would be in conflict with those goals

What do others remember? Thanks for all who attended and commented!! 

This is a map that illustrates the challenges with the Raydient property and some of the critical areas that would be affected.

Tuesday Dec 12^th, 6pm North Kitsap Auditorium. 

1881 NE Hostmark St Poulsbo

Raydient, Kingston Rotary and the YMCA are hosting their third public meeting about the proposed Rezone and Sports Complex at Bond Road and Stottlemeyer. 

We were mocked at the first meeting because of our “small numbers “. Now, the opponents of this project are vast! 

Let’s pack the house and tell them NO on the REZONE and NO on the Sports Complex in this location ! Bring signs, bring your friends and prepare to get loud- because they aren’t listening! 

Come early, 5pm for a NO Rezone Protest prior to the official meeting. 

Thanks for being a part of this !!

Paper by Stephen Howard

While the concept of the sports facility is good, the site has some problems, most of which involve water. I could talk about the potential for noise and light contamination of the Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park, the possibility of an endangered species residing in or near the planned site, the heat-islands created by the asphalt and structures. I could mention the potential for increased traffic in the area of SR104/SR307 to increase the number of traffic accidents, or the near-dearth of bus traffic to that area, but those aren’t water, so I’ll get to that subject.
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