Chapter 17.318
POULSBO URBAN TRANSITION AREA

Sections:

17.318.010    Purpose.

17.318.020    City Zoning Ordinance adopted.

17.318.030    City of Poulsbo Zoning Ordinance – Exceptions and additional requirements.

17.318.040    Resolutions of conflicts between City of Poulsbo Zoning Code and Kitsap County Code.

17.318.010 Purpose.

The purpose of this chapter is to recognize the adoption of the Poulsbo Sub-Area Plan and designation of the Poulsbo Urban Growth Area (UGA), and to provide for development within the UGA that is consistent with the City of Poulsbo’s existing development standards, thereby allowing for a smooth transition of the UGA into the city’s corporate limits through future annexations.

(Ord. 415 (2008) § 88 (part), 2008: Ord. 273 (2002) § 2 (part), 2002)

17.318.020 City Zoning Ordinance adopted.

Except as specified elsewhere in this chapter, the City of Poulsbo Zoning Ordinance, adopted on February 9, 2003, and effective March 3, 2003, is adopted and incorporated herein by reference, as now or hereafter amended, for the sole purpose of regulating development within the Poulsbo Urban Transition Area, as depicted on Kitsap County’s Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map.

(Ord. 415 (2008) § 88 (part), 2008: Ord. 273 (2002) § 2 (part), 2002)

17.318.030 City of Poulsbo Zoning Ordinance – Exceptions and additional requirements.

A.    Within the Poulsbo Urban Transition Area, all sections of the City of Poulsbo Zoning Ordinance shall control; except for the following provisions:

1.    Chapter I – General Provisions;

2.    Chapter VII – Zoning Review and Approval;

3.    Chapter VIII.A – Director Authority;

4.    Chapter VIII.J – Housing Authority Development Permits;

5.    Chapter X.C – Comprehensive Plan Amendments;

6.    Chapter IX – Non-Conforming Structures and Uses;

7.    Chapter X.A – Variances;

8.    Chapter X.B – Zoning Changes, Amendments and Alterations;

9.    Chapter X.E – Appeals; and

10.    Chapter XI – Zoning Enforcement, Penalties and Other Conditions;

B.    The minimum lot size is seven thousand five hundred square feet unless included in a planned unit development as provided in the City of Poulsbo Zoning Ordinance; and

C.    Application fees are determined as provided by Kitsap County Code Chapter 21.06.

(Ord. 415 (2008) § 88 (part), 2008)

17.318.040 Resolutions of conflicts between City of Poulsbo Zoning Code and Kitsap County Code.

If it is not clear from Kitsap County Code Section 17.318.030 whether the City of Poulsbo Zoning Ordinance or Kitsap County Code applies, then the following general rules shall be applied:

A.    The requirements for the city’s zoning districts, and other substantive requirements of the city’s zoning ordinance, apply instead of the substantive requirements in this title; and

B.    The procedural requirements for reviewing and processing development permits and for appeals of decisions on such permits, as well as any other procedural requirements of this title, and the procedural requirements of Kitsap County Code Chapter 21.04, apply instead of the procedural requirements of the city’s zoning ordinance.

(Ord. 415 (2008) § 88 (part), 2008)