City Council annual retreat Jan. 14-16

City_of_SammamishThe Sammamish City Council will hold its annual retreat Jan. 14-16 at the Murano Hotel in Tacoma.

The agenda is still pending. The plan is to being at 5pm Thursday, with a working dinner, all day Friday and a half day Saturday.

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Sammamish retreat: 2040 vision, annexation, council relations–Part 1

The Sammamish City Council’s annual retreat revealed similar visions for the City by 2040, with a population reaching about 80,000 (the maximum under current land use zoning), a more technologically advanced city and local transit shuttles.
Council members also hoped to expand the tree canopy despite current development that has seen large-scale removal of trees; greater use of electric and even driverless cars; and redeveloped commercial areas at the QFC and Safeway complexes in addition to the Town Center, which is on the cusp of realizing the vision that was created in 2009.

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