Home Remodeling Contractors in Silverdale, WA

Kitsap County does. Silverdale has no city government, so the county's Department of Community Development reviews remodels, additions, decks and ADUs, and it accepts applications only online. A new application starts in the Permit Application Portal, which builds a list of the documents that particular property and project need; once the county deems it complete, fees, review comments, approved plans and inspection requests move to a separate Online Permit Center.

Most residential jobs also need the county's Residential Stormwater Worksheet, and its answers set the level of stormwater review. A remodel that includes an uncovered deck needs a site plan as well.

The county publishes where each permit stands in its review queue, and a permit's place in line dates from the day a complete application was accepted. A tidy first submittal is the part of the timeline an owner can control.

Kitsap County's Shoreline Master Program was last updated in 2021. A house built lawfully before it took effect counts as conforming and can be repaired and maintained. It can also be remodeled or rebuilt within the buffer, provided the work stays under the standard height limit and reaches no further toward the water; going further waterward calls for mitigation. That mitigation can be waived when the new space sits directly upland of the existing house and removes no intact native vegetation and adds no hard surface.

Inside the buffer, a new deck or viewing platform is limited to 100 square feet and needs a shoreline mitigation plan showing no net loss of ecological function. View thinning may cover 25 percent of the buffer length on high intensity and shoreline residential lots and 15 percent on urban conservancy lots, and it must keep at least 30 percent of the live crown.

Clear Creek shows how the county treats the water that feeds the inlet. Its Public Works department reconnected the creek to 30 acres of floodplain, wetland and streamside habitat in Silverdale in a project completed in 2016, to improve salmon habitat and ease the effect of storm flows.

The county's Silverdale design guidance describes wooded, moderate to steep slopes on West Hill and around the Waaga Way area, with views down to the inlet. Under KCC 19.400 the county's geologic hazard maps are for information only; the owner is responsible for showing whether a hazard exists, and the department verifies it case by case.

When a project falls inside a mapped potential hazard, a qualified professional files one of three documents: a stamped letter when no hazard lies within 200 feet, a geological report when one does but will not affect the site, or a geotechnical report with engineering recommendations when it will. If that report calls for measures beyond the standard ones, the owner records a notice on the property title before the permit is issued.

Clearing and grading in an erosion or landslide hazard area is limited to May 1 through October 1, unless a Washington licensed engineer prepares an erosion and sediment control plan for wet weather.

Silverdale's urban growth area was set in 1998 and has covered about 7,400 acres since 2006, so its lots follow the county's urban ADU rules in KCC 17.415.010. A lot may have up to two ADUs, attached or detached, each up to 1,000 square feet of interior space, served by urban sewer and reached from the same entrance as the main house.

One ADU needs no added parking space when the house already meets its parking requirement, street parking is available, or the unit is within half a mile of a major transit stop; a second ADU needs one more space. A unit built entirely inside an existing structure does not have to meet current setbacks or lot coverage if the footprint stays the same.

Parcels inside one of Silverdale's nine design districts also follow the Silverdale design standards, and where they conflict with the zoning code the stricter rule applies. The county also offers a set of pre-approved ADU plans.

Silverdale's housing is fairly young. The Census Bureau's 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey puts the median home at 1992, with about a third of all housing built in the 1990s and nearly six in ten built between 1980 and 1999. Roughly half of homes are detached houses, and owners and renters are close to an even split.

A house from the 1980s or 1990s that still has its original kitchen, baths, windows and deck often needs them looked at together. We price that work line by line, in writing, before it begins.