By Miki Mullor
Editor
July 24, 2019: Former City Council Mayor Don Gerend sued the City of Sammamish, challenging the new concurrency regulations.
BREAKING NEWS: Former Mayor, Don Gerend, sues the City over concurrency
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Category Archives: Development & Planning
Tamarack stormwater runoff damage back before council–again
By Scott Hamilton
After nearly a decade and a half of little, the Sammamish City Council may finally be ready to address serious storm water drainage issues in the 
Tamarack subdivision on the city’s west side.
The issue is on the council’s agenda tomorrow night.
Tamarack has been subject to increasingly damaging storm water runoff as development uphill from the subdivision, which is sited on a downhill slope off Thompson Hill Road, flows through the neighborhood.
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Peter, Sally Jarvis killed in auto accident
By Scott Hamilton
A Personal Note
It was with shock that I read of the death of Peter and Sally Jarvis, from an automobile accident.
The details are in The Seattle Times.
The Jarvises lived a lifetime in Sammamish. Sally was one of the first people I met. We both served on the city’s Planning Advisory Board, which wrote the first Comprehensive Plan after Sammamish incorporated in 1999.
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BREAKING NEWS: A split council votes to make the V/C concurrency standard permanent
By Miki Mullor
Editor
A split Sammamish City Council voted on Thursday night to make the new V/C concurrency standard permanent.
As we reported, the new standard pauses new development approvals until infrastructure can catch up.
Mayor Christie Malchow, Deputy Mayor Karen Moran and Council Members Tom Hornish and Chris Ross voted for keeping the V/C standard.
Council Members Pam Stuart, Ramiro Valderrama and Jason Ritchie voted against it.
More details about the meeting to be reported on later date.
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Critical vote on development tonight, with the Town Center looming above
By Miki Mullor
Editor
- New concurrency rules block new development due to inadequate infrastructure
- The new rules were temporary and will effectively expire tonight unless council acts
- Phase I of the Town Center, 424 homes, is currently blocked
- Council votes on whether to keep the new rules or not
The Sammamish City Council will hold a public hearing tonight (6:30 at City Hall) with an expected vote later that night to make the concurrency rules enacted in November 2018 permanent.
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