PORT ORCHARD — The proposal to reopen Northeast Gluds Pond Street at Brownsville Highway is back on the Kitsap County commissioners’ agenda for Monday, Nov. 23, two weeks after they postponed a vote so they could look more closely at residents’ safety and notice concerns.
The resolution is listed under Public Works business, not as a public hearing.
Under the resolution attached to the Nov. 23 agenda, drivers would be allowed to turn right out of Gluds Pond Street onto southbound Brownsville Highway, with no entry from Brownsville Highway. At state Route 303, access would be restricted, with a new island to block left turns.
Approval would not open the road right away. It would stay physically closed until the required road improvements and permit conditions are finished and accepted by Public Works, and the county issues the first certificate of occupancy for either the Gluds Pond Apartments or Royal Valley Plat Phase 1.
In a memo included with the agenda, county staff said the right-turn exit has 470 feet of sight distance to the north, more than the 335 feet required, and that existing property owners would keep access during construction. The memo was written before the Nov. 9 meeting, and no new traffic analysis has been added to the agenda.
The county closed the Brownsville Highway end of the street in 2002. A 2022 agreement among the property owners, the state Department of Transportation and county Public Works tied reopening it to development near Royal Valley Road.
Commissioners meet at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 23, in the Commissioners’ Chambers of the Kitsap County Administration Building, 619 Division St., Port Orchard. The agenda says the public can also take part by phone at 253-215-8782 or on Zoom, but the posted agenda did not yet include the webinar ID or Zoom link. Comments on business agenda items are limited to two minutes. Written comments sent to tlhoesch@kitsap.gov by 4:30 p.m. the day before the meeting become part of the record, according to the agenda.
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