CITY OF POULSBO
NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING
Project Name: 2025 Critical Areas Ordinance Update, Phase 1 | P-08-04-25-02
Project Description: The City of Poulsbo is undertaking an update to its Critical Areas Ordinance as part of the required periodic review under the Washington State Growth Management Act. This update ensures the City's critical areas regulations remain consistent with current state law, reflect Best Available Science, and continue to protect the ecological functions and public health and safety associated with wetlands, fish and wildlife habitat, frequently flooded areas, geologically hazardous areas, and critical aquifer recharge areas.
Public Comment Methods: Written comments may be mailed, e-mailed, or delivered to the City of Poulsbo.  To ensure consideration, all written comments must be received prior to the closing of the public hearing. At the hearing, the public will have an opportunity to provide written and verbal testimony regarding the proposed code amendments.
City Council Public Hearing: The City Council Public Hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, November 19, 2025, at 5:00 pm, or soon thereafter. Public hearings are being held as a hybrid virtual/in-person meeting at the web address and call-in number noted below and at Poulsbo City Hall Council Chambers, 200 NE Moe Street, Poulsbo, Washington. This call-in number: 1-253-215-8782 and meeting id: 898 4841 6447 are provided for virtual attendance, in addition to this webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89848416447. Oral comments can be made in-person only. Please state your name and limit your comments to 5 minutes unless additional time is granted by the Council. As a rule, the Council will not respond to citizen comments. Written comments can be emailed to
cityclerks@cityofpoulsbo.com by 2:00 p.m. the day of the meeting, and they will be distributed to the Council before the meeting. Written comments will not be read into the record.
More Information: https://cityofpoulsbo.com/criticalareasupdate/
November 3 2025
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