In My Central Kitsap Backyard
June 26th, 2009 by jeffbrodyWarning: constant() [function.constant]: Couldn't find constant TT_TH8US_LEN in /home/psblogs/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/tweet-this.php on line 1821
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Big news on the Silverdale development front this morning. If you haven’t see Brynn Grimley’s story in the Kitsap Sun today, take a look. A group of developers headed by Gary Lindsay announced plans for the Woodbridge Crossing development of 659 homes on 122 acres north of Waaga Way and east of Silverdale Way.
At the south end, the development will touch the Ridgetop development, putting this new housing area right in my backyard (OK, technically, it would be my front yard, but you get the reference).
I’m not, however, going to get up and scream “Not in my backyard!” That’s because I believe in the idea of more densely developing parts of the county so that we can still retain a sense of rural and wild lands in the rest of it.
In fact, I wouldn’t mind seeing Lindsay and his partners up the number of housing units in the development to the 798 that county zoning would allow. I would support that if the plans included some mixed use that would allow people to live within walking distance of where they might work. I would support that if the plans, as they do, clustered the housing in some areas of the affected property to leave some open space in other areas. And I would support that if the plans, as they do, included walking trails in the development that would tie in to the Clear Creek Trail system and to Ridgetop.
When Ridgetop was originally designed, the master plan called for a complex of walking trails throughout the development. Unfortunately, the people in charge of the county building and planning department never required the developers who built the various Ridgetop subdivisions to comply with the master plan. As a result, only one development on the Ridge does have trails, and the rest do not. Imagine the value of that amenity now had there been a trail system on the Ridgetop that linked into the Clear Creek Trail.
So I laud the part of this development plan that includes trails, and I urge the developers to consider how they could make Woodbridge Crossing a place where people could live, work and shop, all without having to get in their cars to do it.
— Jeff
Tags: Development, Woodbridge Crossing
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