“During design, we were caught right in the middle of Kitsap County’s waterfront zoning changes,” stated Paul Eberharter, architect for the 2000 single family shingle style, two bedroom waterfront home.

The County required a Habitat Management Plan and increased setbacks for the new home which is on one of the last unbuilt lots on the Miller Bay Sandspit. The county’s new interim rules for waterfront construction were met with changes to the house design and the Habitat Plan, which requires that the upper shore sandy beach be undisturbed except for a foot path to the tide beach. The intent of the new rules is to assure that the natural environment, necessary for near shore aquatic life, can feed salmon.

Eberharter stated that, “the County staff worked in good faith with us to allow this home to be built, and still meet the state mandated environmental standards.”.