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More cars for faster traffic?

  

If you commute on the central stretch of 228th Ave, the city has good news for you.

The City Council proposes to increase the number of people in Town Center from the current approximately 600 to more than 8000. The intersection of SE 4th St and 228th Ave SE is the meeting point of the two corridors through the Town Center and is within one mile of all these new residents. Most of these new commuters will travel through this intersection.

The City states that your average delay at this intersection, even with all of these additional cars, will be 20 seconds. Quite impressive, especially since the average delay in 2024 was 21 seconds.

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  1. AnonymousJune 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM

    Open letter to City Council, sent 6.11.25:

    Are you kidding me?

    After 18 years of meetings, comments, hearings, and votes, you let the Staff come up with a self- serving plan to add a 2000 unit high rise that guts years of citizen input and imposes a huge burden on residents:

    - 2000 more units
    - 5000+ more people
    - 4500+ more cars and 9000+ more daily car trips
    - 2000+ more students, stuck in portables
    - higher taxes to pay for fire/rescue/police
    - air pollution
    - light pollution
    - storm water runoff
    - wildlife reduction
    - drained wells
    - traffic, traffic, traffic, traffic, traffic
    - no mass transit
    - no parking at existing retail centers
    - dangerous SE 4th narrow curbcuts, hidden entrances, confusing roundabouts
    - more redundant signage than Vegas
    - developers who are allowed to take the money and run and avoid paying their fair share for the burdens they leave behind.

    And the benefits to those of us who live here and have to live with the years of construction and decades of the above burdens? ........... Zero. Less than Zero.

    Please - Do your job: reject this additional fiasco, coming hard on the heels of years of unmitigated fiascos.

    The Environmental Impact? It's obviously significant and unnecessary. But it means years of employment for the Staff who are pushing this abomination, rushing the process, describing the amendment in unsupportable glowing language and handing out balloons at yet more "open houses", in hopes of hiding their conflict of interest.

    If I sound frustrated, it's because I am: I'm sick and tired of 40 years of county and city officials ignoring the residents. I'm tired of coming to more meetings, writing more detailed and supported comments, of presenting more solid evidence and testimony against the constant destructive tide of rampant development. Only to be ignored. Read the blogs, the Nextdoor comments, the road signs, the news articles: the majority do not want this additional development!

    We've already lost the pleasure of life in a nice small community. Don't completely kill it. Enough is enough.

    James Jordan, 41 year resident
    634 222nd Place SE Sammamish

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  2. AnonymousJune 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM

    Please SOS start an instagram page. Where more people can post and more information can be posted. City council is lying and we will be stuck with this forever. Please include data how “affordable housing” aka public housing projects has dedtroyed every area they are placed from cities in California, Atlanta Georgia everywhere it brings crime. City council has not budgeted in enlarging the police force.

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