The Top 10 stories in Sammamish for 2018 revolved around traffic, the 
building moratorium and—surprisingly—a state legislative action concerning public records.
The Sammamish Town Center was the focus of controversy in 2018, connected to many of the Top 10 stories for the year.
Here are the stories most viewed on Sammamish Comment for the year. Continue reading
By Scott Hamilton
Founder, Sammamish Comment
The Sammamish City Council held its last meeting of 2018 yesterday, ending the most contentious and divisive year I’ve seen since the incorporation vote in 1998.
As 2019 prepares to arrive, it’s time for a fresh approach to how this city is governed.
The city council, administration and staff has been consumed by traffic concurrency, the resulting building moratorium and related development regulations all year—really, since October 2017, when the moratorium was adopted to give the government time to sort out the concurrency issues.
These issues consumed the city nearly to the exclusion of all else.
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