25TH YEAR, NO. 23
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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2016
SAMMAMISH
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SCOTT STODDARD | sstoddard@sammamishreview.com
Nothing but stumps remain as a swath of land alongside Issaquah-Pine Lake Road is cleared for the Conner-Jarvis development.
City: Tree clearing is by the book BY SCOTT STODDARD sstoddard@sammamishreview.com
The devastation to the landscape is impossible to miss as you travel along Issaquah-Pine Lake Road. In fact, some drivers pull off the road and pull out their smartphones to document the scene. The roadside grove of tall evergreens that once stood between Southeast 42nd Street and Faith Church is now a ragged field of stumps and towering slash piles.
The scraping of the land is the latest step toward a 115home subdivison on the site known as the Conner-Jarvis development. Conner Homes of Bellevue is the developer and Scot Jarvis is the landowner. The City of Sammamish posted the following notice on its website June 2: Responding to resident concerns about the clearing of trees along Issaquah-Pine Lake Road, city officials say the Conner Jarvis development is following all applicable
rules. The city notes, however, that this development permit was submitted before the city adopted more restrictive tree retention regulations in October of 2015. “Under the old rules, the Conner Jarvis development is required to retain 25 percent
of the trees on the property. Depending on zoning, the new regulations require a retention rate between 35 to 50 percent and the replacement of all significant trees. The replacement trees may be located elsewhere on the property being developed, or at another receiving
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site somewhere in the city.” Jarvis, who once served as chairman of the Sammamish Planning Commission, is a former McCaw Celluar senior executive and founded a private equity firm that is named, ironically, Cedar Grove Investments.
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