Update to Appendix D: List of Centers
In December 2025, the Kitsap Regional Coordinating Council (KRCC) adopted an updated Appendix D: List of Centers in the Countywide Planning Policies(CPP). These proposed revisions are in alignment with Appendix A: Kitsap Countywide Planning Policy Ratification Process and do not require any changes to the Elements of the CPPs. This Appendix D was last updated in 2021.
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Background
The Kitsap Countywide Planning Policies (CPPs) play an instrumental role in the development of the Kitsap County Comprehensive Plan and implementing efforts such as development regulations and related programs. The CPPs cover a range of topics that the County and cities within utilize as a consistent framework for local comprehensive plans and development regulations.
Topics covered in the CPPs include:
- Countywide Growth Patterns; and
- Urban Growth Areas; and
- Centers of Growth; and
- Rural Land Use and Development Patterns; and
- Natural Environment; and
- Contiguous, Compatible and Orderly Development; and
- Public Capital Facilities and Essential Public Facilities; and
- Transportation; and
- Housing; and
- Economic Development; and
- Coordination with Tribal and the Federal Governments.
Pursuant to the adoption and ratification process located in Appendix A of the current CPPs, Kitsap County must make a State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) threshold determination, as well as hold a public hearing to adopt proposed revisions. A public hearing is scheduled with the Board of County Commissioners on December 7, with a proposed adoption date of December 14, 2026. Following Kitsap County adoption, Kitsap cities must also ratify the new CPPs for them to become effective.
