Volume 2: Draft Gorst Planned Action Environmental Impact Statement

GORST PLANNED ACTION EIS | AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS, AND MITIGATION MEASURESLU20C. UGA-Wide Growth Strategy. Apply the adopted City-wide growth strategy consistently toall of the City UGAs as a basis for more localized planning.LU3B Pre-qualify key areas and sites for environmental permitting through such devises as subareaplans and related programmatic EIS’s.Though the plan focuses on the urban centers in the community, the plan also addresses CUL that make up a largeamount of the watershed as an area of protection, recreation, and limited development:Cleanup Levels:General development parametersThe City’s management objectives for these lands shall be resource-related and structured toprotect the watersheds and timberlands. These lands are vital to protect water quality andquantity in Bremerton, ensure a healthy forest cover, dispose of biosolids created fromwastewater treatment, protect fish (including salmon), and provide essential habitat for wildlife.While resource management is the primary objective, there are some commercial activities thatare allowed on utility lands such as the location of antenna sites.Policy direction:Maintain the primary character of this land as resource-related. All development should belimited, and demonstrate no significant environmental impact.Discussion: While the primary use of this land shall continue to be used for the protection ofnatural resources, there will continue to be a limited amount of commercial and recreationdevelopment within the lands designated as “utility.” Wherever possible, colocation should beutilized for commercial structures such as antennas. Minimal footprints shall be required. Anyfuture development that associates with current adjacent recreational uses (such as the GoldMountain Golf Course or Jarstad Park) should be limited to that portion of the designation southof Old Belfair Highway and adjacent to existing similar development. Moreover, any developmentwithin this fairly pristine environment shall conform to shoreline and critical lands ordinances andbe designed in an environmentally sensitive way. All developments should go through rigorousenvironmental review. Where development can be allowed should conform to therecommendations made by other regional watershed planning efforts such as the ChicoWatershed Alternative Futures Project.Shoreline Master Programs and Critical AreasShorelines subject to the Shoreline Management Act of 1971 include the marine waters of Puget Sound as well asrivers and streams with a mean annual flow over 20 cubic feet per second (cfs). Shorelines include uplands within200 feet of the ordinary high water mark and associated wetlands, and floodways. In the study area, the SinclairInlet marine shoreline and Gorst Creek are subject to the Shoreline Management Act (RCW 90.58).Consistent with the Shoreline Management Act, both the County and City of Bremerton have adopted ShorelineMaster Programs for lower Gorst Creek and the Sinclair Inlet, and are awaiting Ecology approval.City of Bremerton proposed shoreline designations include• Urban Conservancy in the inner marine shoreline along the water• Commercial or Isolated in the outer marine shoreline area in largely developed areas• Aquatic Conservancy applied to the Marine waters (not mapped below)• Single Family, Recreation, and Urban Conservancy along Gorst CreekDraft | June 2013 3-249