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City terminates county trail agreement BY LIZZ GIORDANO For the Sammamish Review
The City Council unanimously voted to terminate the East Lake Sammamish Trail permitting agreement with King County during its July 5 meeting.
According to City Manager Lyman Howard, by ending the arrangement with the county, the city would become the regulatory agency for future permits along the East Lake Sammamish Trail instead of acting as the liaison between the county and trailside resi-
dents. “Honestly, it’s not working,” Lyman said during the council meeting. “Staff has been spending an inordinate amount of time after the fact in trying to work with the county to do what’s right for our citizens.” Currently, King County han-
dles the processing of permits for the East Lake Sammamish Trail but applies Sammamish city code to the requests. During the final actions of the council meeting, Lyman recommended the city terminate the interlocal agreement with King County and issue
permits in-house rather than give the county the responsibility. Deputy Mayor Ramiro Valderrama was extremely supportive of the move. He was critical of the lack of customer SEE TRAIL, PAGE 3
City Council addresses ire over ConnerJarvis project BY LIZZ GIORDANO For the Sammamish Review
PFOS was detected at .019 parts per billion in Well 7 water collected June 15. The EPA’s lifetime health advisory level for PFOS and another perfluorinated chemical, PFOA (perfluorooctanoic
The City Council tried to alleviate ongoing concerns from residents over the Conner-Jarvis development on Issaquah-Pine Lake Road during its July 5 meeting. The council had a lengthy discussion following a public appeal made by Sammamish resident Mike Grady, representing the Kempton Downs Community Organization, who accused the Conner-Jarvis developer and the city of not following the rules concerning necessary permits for the site. A he-said-she-said discussion about whether access was granted to a wetland biologist from the state Department of Ecology prompted councilmembers to request city staff members invite representatives from both Ecology and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife staff to the site. Councilmembers suggested city staff members also be
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The pumphouse for Sammamish Plateau Water’s Well 7 sits alongside the East Fork of Issaquah Creek, 1,800 feet to the east of Issaquah’s troubled Gilman Well No. 4.
Trace of contaminant detected in well; district says water ‘completely safe’ BY SCOTT STODDARD sstoddard@sammamishreview.com
Sammamish Plateau Water announced July 8 that PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate) has been detected in the water produced by one of its production wells at a level significantly below what the Environmental Protection Agency considers unsafe. PFOS, a perfluorinated chemical which has contaminated the City of Issaquah’s Gilman Well No. 4, was found in Sammamish Plateau
Water’s Well 7. Sammamish Plateau Water General Manager Jay Krauss stressed the district’s drinking water was safe to consume. “We have a history of being extremely protective of our customers’ water,” Krauss said in a press release. “Any potential threat is taken seriously and acted upon immediately. In this case, our own tests show that Well 7 has minute amounts of PFCs and Well 9 had no detectable PFCs. Water from both are completely safe. If any of our tests showed otherwise, we’d
switch production to other wells or the regional supply to protect the public. We have a flexible supply system and can change water source if needed.” According to test results provided to The Issaquah Press by the water district,
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one in four citizens will either receive or know someone who has received a blood transfusion. n Children being treated for cancer, premature infants and children having heart surgery need blood and platelets from donors of all types, especially type O. n Anemic patients
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For the second year in a row, the Sammamish Police Department issued no fines for the use of illegal fireworks within city limits.
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Eastside Catholic names Options Program director
Wendy Burnham is the Eastside Catholic School’s new executive director of Options Program and Learning Support Services. Burnham is now responsible for the school’s non-traditional special education program and academic resources department. In this role, she will develop and guide the support programs that address the needs of students with diagnosed or undiagnosed learning challenges. In addition, she will oversee Eastside Catholic’s Options Program for students who require assistance with moderate intellectual or cognitive disabilities who cannot access the general education curriculum. Burnham, an Eastside Catholic graduate, comes from Archbishop Murphy High School, where she was the director of the school’s academic resource center.
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acid) is a combined .07 parts per billion. The PFOS level in Well 7 is so low that if it was being reported to the EPA under the agency’s 2013-2015 Third Unregulated Contaminants Monitoring Rule — the program in which Issaquah discovered its PFOS contamination — it would be considered a non-detection. Sammamish Plateau Water’s Well 7 is approximately 1,800 feet east of Issaquah’s Gilman Well No. 4. Sammamish Plateau Water’s leaders decided at their July 5 board meeting to hire consultants to study groundwater movement and develop monitoring and testing programs in an effort to learn whether PFOS from Gilman Well No. 4 is migrating towards Well 7. “It’s always been our policy to get out ahead of a potential threat before it becomes a problem,” Scott Jonas, the district’s operations manager, said in the press release. The water district first discovered PFOS was present in the vicinity of Well 7 in May, when a test of water from a monitoring well approximately 45 feet from Well 7 showed a PFOS level of .019 parts per billion. The sampling of water from monitoring well 7.3 was conducted by a consultant hired by the City of Issaquah as part of the evaluation of PFC con-
tamination of Gilman Well No. 4. Sammamish Plateau Water agreed to the test of well 7.3 but had no involvement in the sampling process. The results prompted the water district to conduct tests on its nearby production wells, Well 7 and Well 9. “A production well is what we use to actually draw the water to supply the system,” Krauss said. “Monitoring wells are in separate casings and have smaller diameters. They’re used to surveil conditions before they can impact the production wells.” The Well 7 pumphouse is at 6503 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway SE, alongside the North Fork of Issaquah Creek. Well 7 was drilled in 1984 and is one of 11 operational wells in Sammamish Plateau Water’s Plateau Zone service area, which as of 2009 provided water to more than 16,000 service connections. Three of those 11 wells — Wells 7, 8 and 9 — are on the Issaquah Valley floor. Jonas said both monitoring well 7.3 and Well 7 draw water from the aquifer at a depth of 70 to 100 feet, the same depth from which Gilman Well No. 4 draws water. PFOS is known to cause liver damage and birth defects in lab animals. Research on its effects on humans is still evolving. However, the EPA saw fit in May to reduce its advisory level for PFOS from 0.2 parts per billion to a combined 0.07 parts per billion for PFOS and PFOA.
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present to prevent future miscommunications. Grady implored the council to ignore the Growth Management Act. “If you were to get sued by the State of Washington for not following the GMA, you would be heroes,” said Grady, addressing the City Council during the meeting’s public comment period. The crowd applauded Grady’s impassioned speech as he walked from the podium. The Conner-Jarvis developer was issued an early clearing and grading permit, much to the chagrin
trail from 187th Avenue Northeast to Inglewood Hill Road. A legal appeal is keeping the southern section, from Southeast 33rd Street to the southern city limits, on hold. The city will now have complete control of the permitting for the middle section, which has not gone through the permitting process. Howard said the interlocal agreement was suppose to reduce the workload on city staff, but keeping the county in alignment with city requirements has taken a lot of coordination and work. “This move will improve efficiency and eliminate a lot of the transactional back and forth we’ve been dealing with,” Howard
said. “The county will concentrate on its role as the applicant, and we’ll focus on being the regulatory authority.” Howard said the city plans to use current staff members and outside consultants to handle the anticipated increase of workload the change would bring. By handling the permit review process, the city will be able to bill the applicant for the required staff hours. “The interlocal agreement was originally requested by the City of Sammamish when the city incorporated,” said Doug Williams, media relations coordinator for the county Department of Natural Resources and Parks. “Because of
their limited resources at the time, the ILA was intended to provide the city with the expertise required to conduct their permitting process for the East Lake Sammamish Trail. “We will continue to work with the City of Sammamish on redeveloping the ELST that, when completed, will prove to be an outstanding recreational and alternative transportation amenity for Sammamish residents and other King County residents, Williams said. “We are confident the city will support our efforts to complete the ELST in a timely, efficient and costeffective manner for the benefit of all citizens.”
of the Kempton Downs Community Organization, and the group appealed to the city’s hearing examiner after the subdivision received preliminary approval. The hearing examiner did state a hydraulic project approval permit is necessary before the city can grant the site a development permit. The Sammamish Review spoke with both staff members of both the Department of Ecology and Department of Fish and Wildlife. Neither agencies were surprised the developer was granted an early clearing and grading permit. Fish and Wildlife said it foresees no reason a hydraulic project approval permit will not
be granted. City staff members said the developer was granted an early clearing and grading permit to reduce the construction season from two to one. The City Council responded to other comments, including a request for more communication of new developments using GIS data, lengthening the public notice period and an appeal for a better process for improving infrastructure to handle growth in the area. Mayor Don Gerend said in the past, citizens have criticized the council for taking no action after receiving public comment. Gerend plans to continue to encourage
discussion among councilmembers during the public comment period. “So there is more of a sense of a partnership between citizens and the government,” Gerend said. Overall, Grady was pleased with the discussion following his comment but still questions why, if everyone agrees that a hydraulic project approval is needed, why an early clearing and grading permit was granted. “I walked to the land today and big bulldozers are still working,” Grady wrote in an email to the Sammamish Review. “On Tuesday (July 5), were we not told nothing is being done until the HPA?”
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service Sammamish residents had received. “I wish in hindsight when I raised this issue two years ago that we had moved forward with it,” Valderrama said. “Our citizens will see us as much more responsive to not only the environment and lake … but also to the issues that are now being involved in the property of individuals and how that goes forward.” The city must give King County 90 days notice before terminating the agreement and will remain as a liaison for the completed northern section of the
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New growth brings back traditional concerns BY LYMAN HOWARD
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hen residents gathered along IssaquahPine Lake Road recently to protest the removal of trees on the ConnerJarvis property, it brought back vivid memories from the late ’90s. Then, as now, the Sammamish Plateau was experiencing rapid growth, and an accelerating sense of frustration at the sight of so many bulldozers. There is one key difference between the two eras, however. In 1999, residents expressed their frustration by castigating King County governance and forming their own city. In 2016, the complaints are landing
much closer to home – in my office, and in every City Councilmember’s inbox. Although Lyman these comHoward plaints make us all uncomfortable, they’re not a surprise. In Sammamish, when the economy picks up, trees come down, and political winds begin to blow – hard. Rather than deflect these passions, the city has decided to hold a community round-table meeting on growth. The goal of the Sept. 8 session: To hear the community’s complaints, to absorb new ideas for managing growth, and to share the regula-
tory structure that governs and limits our options. Another goal, which I hope to jump start with this column, is to dissuade people from embracing the conspiracy theories that plagued us in the late ’90s and early 2000s. There are already letters to the editor suggesting that the city barred the Department of Ecology from visiting the Conner-Jarvis property, and inappropriately granted an “early” clearing and grading permit. Not true. The rules governing development can be quite complex, but complexity does not equal conspiracy. The city has followed normal procedures on the Conner-Jarvis project, and the staffers we’ve assigned to it, some of whom have been called
out by name in the newspaper and elsewhere, have done excellent, professional work. When we tell residents that we’re following all the rules, some of them respond by saying, “Well, let’s change the rules, then!” To me, that seems like a very healthy reaction. Rather than blaming city staffers for doing their job, it would be much more productive to examine the rules, and make changes where possible. I say “where possible” because property owners have a constitutional right to develop their land, the state’s Growth Management Act requires urban areas like Sammamish to meet residential growth targets, and cities lose in court – and a lot of money along the
way – when they try to halt development. So, like all cities, we have a challenge on our hands. We can regulate growth, but we can’t stop it. Our new tree-retention ordinance (which went into effect after Conner-Jarvis was approved) requires developers to save an above-average number of trees, and our trafficimpact fees ($14,204 per new house) are the highest in the state, but maybe there are new steps we should consider. I look forward to hearing your ideas, along with your concerns, on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m., in Sammamish City Hall! Lyman Howard is the city manager of Sammamish.
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A tower for scenic views could become local attraction BY MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH
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like to think of Sammamish as the “sunrise” city of the greater Seattle area. We’re at the sunrise edge of the Eastside’s built-up urban area. And you’d think, since we live on a plateau, that we’d have great views of both sunrises and sunsets. Maybe your home happens to have a great view, but we have few places on the plateau where views are possible for everyone. And certainly nowhere with a good view in all directions. So I have an idea, one that might attract visitors to
Sammamish — and would surely be an iconic structure for our town. That’s to build a tower, perhaps on or near the City Hall campus. I’d make it tall enough to allow views over the trees at Skyline High School so we can see the mountains and the sunrises. As a bonus, it would have great views in all directions, of Rainier to the south and Mount Baker to the north, not to mention west over Lake Sammamish toward Bellevue, Seattle, and the Olympics beyond. I’m not talking about a new Space Needle, but a more modest tower with stairs to the top, although more glorified than a fire lookout.
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Yes, it would cost money, but what an attraction it could be. One tower that might serve as a model is the Astoria Column in Astoria, Ore., which is decorated with historic artwork celebrating Lewis and Clark heritage (astoriacolumn.org). It’s 125 feet tall and was built in 1926. It’s much more elaborate than a fire-lookout tower, and perhaps more than we might need, but who knows? Another example is North Viewpoint at Little Mountain Park in Mount Vernon (littlemountainpark.org). This structure extends horizontally rather than vertically, but perhaps there’s a good place for a viewpoint platform like this
on a Sammamish hilltop that could provide views at least to the east or west, such as somewhere near the top parking lot at Evans Creek Preserve. Of course, this idea raises questions, and I don’t have all the answers. How much would it cost? How would it be paid for? Should this viewing tower charge an admission fee? (I hope not.) Where could it be placed, and could adequate parking be provided? What zoning issues might need to be overcome, if any? How could the tower be made safe? Despite these questions, I hope this idea might interest others. Nothing’s possible if you don’t first imag-
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ine it. Photographs from this vantage point would surely help promote Sammamish. This tower, which might be called the Sunrise Tower, or the Sammamish Tower, would be a go-to thing to do in Sammamish, not just for residents but for tourists, too. Next time you had friends or relatives visiting from out of town, you could take them to the tower to enjoy the view. And what a view it would surely be — imagine the sunrises and sunsets. Would you be interested in a tower like this? Michael Dylan Welch has been a Sammamish resident for 13 years.
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At 4:47 a.m. June 30, a resident of the Madison Apartments at 3020 230th Lane SE heard the engine of her 2002 Ford Excursion start up in the parking lot. By the time she got outside, the truck was stolen.
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n At 9:17 a.m. June 25, a resident in the 1100 block of 244th Avenue Northeast discovered someone had destroyed the home’s mailbox with a blunt object. n Several mailboxes in the area of 229th
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Sammamish all-stars hold off Issaquah, 11-7 BY NEIL PIERSON npierson@ sammamishreview.com
The Sammamish Little League all-stars needed a spark and they got it early in their July 6 game against Issaquah. Agassi Owen’s tworun home run was the start of a big offensive day for Sammamish’s 9/10 all-stars, who nearly coughed up a seven-run lead before holding off Issaquah, 11-7, in an elimination contest at the District 9 baseball tournament on Mercer Island. Sammamish kept its season alive and advanced to play Bellevue Thunderbird at 6 p.m. Thursday in another win-or-gohome game at the South Mercer Playfields. “Just a lot of heart,” Sammamish manager John Steinbach said of his team. “We saw a bench that beat the other team’s bench and our boys did what they were supposed to do. The bats woke up and it started off with (Owen).” In the first inning, leadoff batter Nate Fischer
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reached base on an error and Owen caught hold of a pitch from Issaquah’s Colin Fraser, sending it over the 225-foot marker in left field. Carter DuBreuil tripled and scored on Trevor Steinbach’s groundout, putting Sammamish ahead 3-0 after one, and they never trailed. “It just hit the sweet spot on my bat, and it was just a high pop fly and it went over,” said Owen, a stocky third baseman who said he
has hit several homers this season, but prefers to focus on making solid contact. Sammamish upped the lead to 7-0, plating four runs on four hits and two errors in the second inning. Aidan Gerth had an RBI single and DuBreuil walked with the bases loaded. But Issaquah began chipping away in the third, getting on the board through Zach Dietiker’s double to deep left and McKay Reynolds’
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two-out infield single. That set the stage for a five-run fourth that cut the margin to one. Dietiker had a two-run double, Reynolds singled for his second RBI of the night and Keaton Kauzlarich also had a run-scoring single. “(McKay) is one of our top hitters, by far,”
Issaquah manager Jason Ramsey said. “The kid is a little kid, he packs a lot of punch, and Zach (Dietiker) is a big kid who packs a lot of punch. Those two boys, all tournament long, they’ve been doing it for us.” Issaquah had the momentum but Sammamish immediately regained it in the bottom of the fourth. Andrew Stephens and Jaxon Menold each had RBI singles to increase the lead to 10-6. Ryan Tobler pitched four innings for Sammamish and survived Issaquah’s big push to get the win. He stayed on the mound to start the sixth, but after two batters reached base, Grimmer came on in relief for the last three outs. “He just comes up, throws strikes,” John Steinbach said of Tobler. “We don’t want to walk them. We want them to
hit if they’re going to hit and he throws strikes, keeps it low in the zone. He did a great job.” Issaquah picked up district tournament victories over Redmond North and Snoqualmie Valley, earning the praise of their manager in the process. “When we played Snoqualmie Valley on Monday at 9 a.m., we scored 18 runs and we had 16 hits,” Ramsey noted. “We’re a hitting team. When the bats are alive, we really do well, but we just had a slow start today.” Ramsey was also quick to compliment Sammamish, which was able to slow Issaquah’s hot-hitting offense with some strong off-speed pitches. They also made some key defensive plays to thwart Issaquah and got the big hit they needed from Owen. “That shot over the fence was humongous,” Ramsey said.
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