Volume 2: Draft Gorst Planned Action Environmental Impact Statement

GORST PLANNED ACTION EIS | AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS, AND MITIGATION MEASURES• Confirmation that the city’s comprehensive plan should reflect land use and capitalfacility planning for the entire UGA. This should include agreement regarding theoperation and maintenance of County-owned public facilities such as parks and othercommunity buildings.• Identification of the responsibility and mechanisms for comprehensive planamendments, zoning changes and development applications within the UGA.• Identification of the services to be provided, the service provider and the terms ofservices. All service providers should be included in UGA planning.• Provisions on revenue sharing.• Description of the city’s pre-annexation planning to ensure logical and coordinatedboundaries which shall include: conditioning city service extensions upon annexation forproperties contiguous to the city boundary; agreements of no protest to futureannexation for properties that are not contiguous; offering pre-annexation agreementsto property owners interested in annexation and needing assurances for the city aboutservices, planning or other issues; and other mechanisms.• Other issues as appropriate for specific UGAMAs.County policies also support potential population reallocation that may be appropriate for Gorst:Policy LU-14, Reallocate and resolve any significant population growth target not accommodatedby a UGA boundary or zoning within the UGA, when a UGA is in close proximity to anincorporated jurisdiction and logical upzoning or UGA expansions are not available…City of Bremerton Comprehensive PlanThe City of Bremerton adopted its first Comprehensive Plan under GMA in April 1995. The City of Bremertonadopted a major update to the Plan in December 2004, and its most recent plan is dated 2010. The City ofBremerton’s Comprehensive Plan contains Land Use, Transportation, Housing, Utilities, Economic Development,Capital Facilities, Environment, and Community Character elements.The City of Bremerton’s plan is based on a concept of neighborhood, district, and regional “centers” – areas ofconcentrated and planned mixed-use development areas, serving various roles to meet needs of communities andwell-connected to each other by various transportation modes. The City of Bremerton recognizes the uniquecharacter of each center by creating subarea plans with goals, policies, and regulations unique to eachneighborhood. For example, the City of Bremerton adopted a subarea plan for SKIA recognizing it as a regionalmanufacturing industrial center.The City of Bremerton has identified its future associated UGAs as including Central Kitsap, East Bremerton, WestBremerton, and Gorst. The City of Bremerton’s plan introduction notes the following about Gorst:“At Gorst, where two State highways meet, Port Orchard is behind the traveler and the focus isahead to Bremerton. Gorst is the real entry to Bremerton.”The City of Bremerton’s future land use map for Gorst reflects the Kitsap County designations described in Section3.7 Land Use Patterns of this Draft EIS. However, the City of Bremerton has pre-designated the Gorst UGA withzones that are the closest match to the Kitsap County zones.Some relevant policies for the present planning efforts include:LU20B “Associated” UGAs. Promote the association with Bremerton of those UGAs that can bemost efficiently served by Bremerton as the primary provider of urban services.Draft | June 2013 3-248