Op-Ed: Why Kitsap County Can't Stop Sprawling
Community News • January 8, 2026
Author Travis Merrigan of The Urbanist explores the history of Kitsap's development plans over recent decades and highlights failures to prevent suburban sprawl.
In this op-ed piece Merrigan encourages, "It’s not too late for Kitsap County to bend the curve on forest destruction, traffic growth and sprawl, and build the walkable communities that 30 years of Comprehensive Plans have called for. But it must break with the status quo of prioritizing rural subdivisions above concentrated development.”
Learn more about amphibian monitoring at Islandwood where volunteers log amphibian reproductive data in iNaturalist. These observations help program administrators understand where our local amphibians are – and aren’t – breeding across the region.
Join KEC in April as Dark Sky Advocates explain why dark skies are important to the health of humans, wildlife, and the climate. A panel of community members will join the Advocates to talk about how you can participate in research to support bird migration and track light pollution.
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