Snohomish Conservation District and Camano County Club (CCC) partnered to complete a feasibility study, landowner engagement effort, and preliminary design project that explored options to improve habitat conditions and juvenile fish access in an embayment and small stream located in Whidbey Bason on the east side of Camano Island in Port Susan Bay. This project was identified as a priority for the WRIA 6 salmon recovery plan following publication of the 2013 "Juvenile Chinook Salmon Rearing In Small Non-natal Streams Draining into the Whidbey Basin" (Beamer et al, 2013). The project included the following work-types: preliminary design, conducting habitat restoration scoping and feasibility studies. COVID and staffing labor shortages contributed to several delays with this project. Snohomish Conservation District received two amendments to complete this project: -Amendment 1 extended the project timeline, changed the project from a no-match design-only grant into a feasiblity and design grant that required match and therefore increased the total project cost. The grant award amount was unchanged -Amendment 2 extended the project timeline for a second time and also added additional funding. Snohomish Conservation District hired a consultant (ESA) and worked with the CCC HOA and a group of CCC HOA property owners who volunteered to be part of a landowner committee to help Snohomish Conservation District and our consultant plan and complete landowner outreach to the entire 1,200+ homeowner HOA. There is a second HOA, the Cavalero Estates HOA, that has deeded access to portions of the project design area; Snohomish CD performed outreach to this community as well. Snohomish Conservation District engaged with the two HOAs to inform the community and gather input from the communitiy in several ways: Snohomish CD coordinated a few landowner meetings (in person and virtual) and a walking site tour; HOA and SCD sent meeting and project information by mail and email, and invited community feedback trered community. Snohomish CD staff and ESA provided one detailed presentation and several updates to throughout the project to the WRIA 6 Salmon Recovery Technical and Citizen Committee (SRTCC). Island County Public Works staff participated in the SRTCC subcommittee and provided feedback into the alternative analysis and into the preferred alternative. SCD and ESA completed a design alternative analysis, gathered community and SRTCC input into selection of a preferred alternative, and developed preliminary designs for the preferred alternative. Prior to selection of the preferred alternative, the SRFB Technical Committee was provided with the alternative analysis for feedback. The perferred alternative was selected based on feedback from SRTCC, Island County, survey responses, and a landowner meeting spring 2023 meeting. Once the preferred alternative was selected, Snohomish CD and ESA continued to solicit and incorporate landowner, SRTCC, and Island County feedback into the draft and final preliminary designs. Snohomish CD also gathered input into unresolved questions, design elements, and specific design elements where the various groups raised concerns that will need to be altered or re-considered during future design phases should Snohomish CD sponsor a next phase of the project (an example of a design element that will require further consideration is the location of parking area, retention of the picnic and gazebo area, and impacts to property owners near the parking and lagoon areas). At the landowner meeting on June 6th, 2023, the approximately 40 landowners voted unanimously that they would like to ask Snohomish CD to pursue the next phase of design and community outreach funding to continue to advance elements of the project design and address the community's questions and several specific concerns about elements of the design (particularly the footprint and location for parking, the community concerns about odor, aesthetics, and property value impacts for the homes adjacent to the lagoon, and several other design elements). The HOA Board also voted to continue to work with Snohomish CD to explore the next phase of design and community outreach to address the questions, concerns, and unresolved design elements. Given the small size of the community meeting (approx. 40 participants) compared with the number of members in the HOAs (approx. 1,200 in the CCC HOA and approx. 30 in Cavalero Estates), Snohomish Conservation District and our HOA and landowner committee will need to continue to perform outreach to the landowners who have not yet provided input into the project prior to developing a proposal for a future phase of outreach and design.