There has actually only been 1 public vote in Port Orchard on the issue before. A 2011 petition never made it onto a ballet, so there was no vote.

As this article states, the 2013 proposition would have taken power away from a very popular mayor and given it to a new city manager. If you were following PO politics at the time you'd know that it was the city manager issue, not the code city issue that drove the opposition to Prop. 1.

There was a public hearing on this in February. Then a special town hall meeting March 21. And finally the council vote on March 28. All these meetings were pre-announced. If there had actually been any real opposition, people would have attended the meetings, started writing letters to the Kitsap Daily News, and organized an opposition by now.

Without an emotional issue like fluoridation as the trigger, there would also be little or no support for reverting PA back to 2nd class status.