Hansville goes back to the future

Well, there probably won’t be a souped up Delorean, talk of 1.21 gigowatts or Doc Brown trying to read your mind but the Hansville Community Center will definitely be bristling with ideas that could rival the flux-capacitor.

Well, there probably won’t be a souped up Delorean, talk of 1.21 gigowatts or Doc Brown trying to read your mind but the Hansville Community Center will definitely be bristling with ideas that could rival the flux-capacitor.

The Hansville Futures meetings get rolling tomorrow and will start a process that will eventually help create a template for the northernmost communities of North Kitsap. Organizers of the project, who put things in motion about a year ago, are ready to get the public involved.

Planning will be the next step as residents help gather information on the communities involved — Hansville, Eglon and the Port Gamble S’Klallam Reservation — and walk toward the unknown. What will they find? Marty McFly in a life preserver? Who knows?

Even so, the surveys and research they will be conducting on past and current trends will be vital. How the North End has changed in the last 25 years could unlock the secret to how it will grow in the next 25.

As McFly might comment, “Heavy.”

Of course, weight has nothing to do with it. What does is good sense. As the North End puts its potential future under the microscope, the Herald believes it will eventually all come into focus. This will be one heck of a lot of work but the end result could be a community shaped at the hands of the community. And that’s one heavy concept.

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