A 68-unit apartment complex is proposed near the intersection of Bethel and Sedgwick roads in South Kitsap.
Earlier local reporting has documented other housing proposals in the area. The Kitsap Sun report on the 68-unit proposal also identifies nearby projects; the history below puts those proposals in the context of the area's housing pipeline.
A Corridor Already Filling In With New Housing
Just down the road, a Tacoma-based company previously proposed two apartment buildings on Salmonberry Road totaling 24 residential units, according to the same Kitsap Sun report from 2023. That plan called for two three-story buildings with four units on each floor, along with vehicle parking, bike storage and yard space, on a roughly 1.2-acre site zoned Commercial Mixed Use. Family Legacy Development LLC, based in Tacoma, was listed as the project's owner.
Other projects have surfaced nearby in recent years. A 2025 Kitsap Sun report listed Blueberry Apartments Phase Two, a 102-unit project in permitting located north of its Phase One site on Blueberry and Bethel roads, and the Ramsey Apartments on Sedgwick Road, planned at 99 units. Separately, a 2023 Kitsap Sun report described a developer's plan to add 192 apartment units as an extension of the 136-unit Pottery Creek Apartments already built on Sedgwick Road.
Growth Pressure On A Subarea Built For Mixed Use
The Sedgwick/Bethel area has long been designated for this kind of growth. A City of Port Orchard subarea-plan page describes the Sedgwick/Bethel Subarea as roughly 235 acres zoned for residential, commercial, mixed-use and greenbelt purposes, and says the subarea contained 716 residents in 292 housing units, including 136 apartments and 156 houses, as of that account.
Traffic along the corridor has been a long-running concern tied to that growth. A 2018 corridor study reported by Kitsap Daily News projected that Bethel Road traffic would increase by 85 percent by 2040, while Sedgwick Road traffic was projected to grow by 45 percent over the same period. The draft corridor plan examined at the time carried an estimated construction cost of $53.8 million.
To address some of that pressure, Port Orchard has previously discussed plans to build a roundabout at Bethel and Salmonberry roads as part of broader efforts to improve Bethel Road, according to the 2023 Kitsap Sun report on the Salmonberry project. The city's Bethel Road and Sedgwick Road Corridor Study is described on its own project page as a long-range transportation plan meant to develop a conceptual design improving traffic flow, safety and multimodal access along the corridor while supporting future growth in Port Orchard.
Population, Housing and the Corridor Plan
The subarea account cited above lists 292 housing units, while the Washington State Office of Financial Management's 2026 population estimates say Port Orchard reached 20,000 residents. These figures describe different geographies and do not show year-to-year housing-supply change; the 68-unit proposal is one project, not a measure of citywide growth. The City of Port Orchard says its City Council adopted the final Bethel Road and Sedgwick Road Corridor Plan on October 9, 2018. Adoption of the plan, as recorded on the city's corridor study page, does not establish that proposed improvements were funded or built.
The projects discussed above include Blueberry Apartments Phase Two at 102 units, the Ramsey Apartments at 99 units and a 192-unit Pottery Creek extension, alongside the newly reported 68-unit proposal. These figures describe proposals or planned additions, not a count of completed new housing.
