CENTRAL KITSAP
COMMUNITY CAMPUS

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The Central Kitsap Community Campus is located on a 13 acre site in downtown Silverdale and is owned by Kitsap County. This Campus is bordered by Silverdale Way to the east, Randall Way to the west and commercial uses to the north and south. In June 2010, the YMCA of Pierce-Kitsap Counties broke ground on the Campus with the Haselwood Family YMCA facility.  The Haselwood Family YMCA is one of many proposed uses for this site. Many public outreach efforts have envisioned this Campus to include a library, senior housing, mixed-use/retail/office, performing arts center and a parking structure. As such, Kitsap County has embarked on creating a master vision and plan to ensure a cohesive and coordinated site plan for this area. The goals for this project include:

v     Provide an overall site plan or strategy of proposed building locations and associated roadway and parking needs.

v     Create design standards that generate a compatible mix of office/retail, recreational and civic uses that are coordinated with landscaping, public gathering spaces, village commons and pedestrian, bicycle and transit facilities.

v     Build a campus where architecture is distinct and reduces the scale and bulk of buildings through the use of prominent architecture at key focal points.

v     Incorporate sustainable building practices (energy-efficiency, low-impact development, etc) wherever feasible.  

Over the course of 2010-2011, this project is intended to amend the Silverdale Design Standards and applicable county code in order to create a vision and implementation standards for cohesive development on the Campus. The Silverdale Design Standards were originally adopted in 2007, with recent amendments in 2009. While a component of the standards includes an existing chapter on the Central Kitsap Community Campus, this section is proposed to be amended to achieve the goals mentioned above and provide greater predictability of future site activities.  

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After a year long process, amendments to the Silverdale Design Standards and applicable development code were drafted.
Below are the proposed amendments.

• Bucklin Hill Town Center Chapter—Proposed amendments are predominately intended for housekeeping purposes to ensure consistency with proposed design standards and new Campus document organization. Substantively, the attached includes one amendment which limits building height within the Village Common view corridor.
  

• Silverdale Design Review Board—Establishes a design review board to make recommendations on modifications to projects seeking deviations if located within the CK Campus or the Waaga Way Town Center.
  

• Title 17 Amendments—Code amendments to the Regional Commercial zone uses and density, dimensions. These amendments are intended to ensure consistency with the overall vision and intended use of the Campus.
   
• CK Campus Master Plan and Design Standards—Establishes the design vision, intent and standards for the Campus.
   
• Staff Report—Review proposed amendments with consistency with local and state policies.

These draft are before the Kitsap County Planning Commission for their consideration and recommendation. Below are work-study and public hearing tentative dates before the Commission.

Planning Commission Work-Study Session
October 4, 2011
6:00-8:00PM
Kitsap County Administrative Building, 619 Division Street
Port Orchard
Commissioners Chambers 

Planning Commission Public Hearing
October 18, 2011
6:00-8:00PM
Kitsap County Administrative Building, 619 Division Street
Port Orchard
Commissioners Chambers 

Kitsap County has established an ad-hoc advisory committee to assist staff in developing the Campus vision and design standards areas of focus. This Campus Design Committee (CDC) is comprised of interested parties, existing and potential tenants, Central Kitsap Community Council (CKCC) members and local developers. The CDC will hold meetings throughout 2010 and 2011 and are open to the public.

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Please contact staff noted below for more project information or to share your thoughts and ideas.

Angie Silva
Special Projects Planner/Policy Analyst
614 Division St. MS-4
Port Orchard, WA 98366
Phone: (360) 337-4841
Fax: (360) 337-4632
Email: asilva@co.kitsap.wa.us

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