Re: “Sammamish lastly proceeds with main housing, business mission” [May 20, Eastside]:
The unique intent of the Development Administration Act was to focus improvement towards present city areas and protect seen buffers between the cities/city areas. Sadly, it didn’t at all times work as meant. One purpose is that the selections have been made by elected officers from King County and bigger cities that weren’t instantly affected by their selections, whereas the smaller cities alongside the city development boundary, and subsequently a lot affected by the act, weren’t given their due consideration.
Essentially the most egregious instance will possible stay the landlocked Sammamish Plateau that ought to have been centered outward towards the city facilities of Issaquah and Redmond however is now a jurisdiction without end caught between these cities with invisible boundaries, no management over ingress and egress, and an inward imaginative and prescient that can solely develop into extra problematic over time.
Rowan Hinds, Issaquah (Issaquah mayor 1990-97)
