BREMERTON,WA-Port Blakely Communities is now free to move forward with its proposal to build a 440-acre industrial and housing development here on the Kitsap Peninsula.
Foes fear environmental destruction while project supporters argue the development will pump money and jobs into the area, which has lost 8,000 jobs to downsizing by the U.S. Navy.
Under the current Port Blakely plan, about 140 acres are to be left as natural forest. Roughly 200 acres are earmarked for business development and about 100 acres have been reserved for 1,200 homes.
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