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Revised 12/11/2025, the county’s building permit brochure calls for a permit on any non-shoreline wall above 4 feet. Upland walls no taller than 4 feet stay outside that trigger when no surcharge loads them. The brochure treats a road, a building, or a tank as a surcharge, and so is any liquid that is combustible or flammable. Shoreline walls do not receive the upland exemption.
Revised July 23, 2025, the grading brochure draws the line at earth movement of 150 cubic yards or more. The county code uses the same figure in KCC 12.10.030(3). On stormwater, KCC 12.20.010 has two triggers: new plus replaced hard surface reaching 2,000 square feet, and land disturbance reaching 7,000 square feet. Reaching either one starts the first five stormwater requirements.
Kitsap County DCD issues the approach permit for any driveway that links a private lot to a county road. Building, changing, fixing, or moving any utility or roadway feature inside county right-of-way takes a permit under the right-of-way brochure, which never lists driveways, curbs, or sidewalks among its features.
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