By Miki Mullor
Editor

Sammamish city staff, in a move reminiscent of the Variances-R-Us approach to development in 2015, ignored city code in approving a critical step of development between  September 2019 and January 2020.

City staff issued 11 traffic concurrency certificates for various development projects, even though Sahalee Way is failing concurrency.  Staff decided to interpret the code to allow more development to continue, even if those developments caused more cars to use the failing Sahalee Way.  

When doing so, staff ignored other portions of the code. Staff also did not ask the Sammamish City Council to clarify the code.