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Resident urges council to set measurable targets to add thousands of market‑rate and affordable units
Summary
A resident, Paul Stigny, urged the council during public comment to adopt data‑driven housing targets and add 7,100 units across categories over 20 years, concentrating growth in city centers to preserve neighborhood character.
During public comment at the April 8 meeting, Paul Stigny of Sammamish urged the City Council to adopt measurable housing targets and to concentrate growth in the city’s centers.
"A quick look back ... there are 4 categories of housing in Sammamish in my view," Stigny said, describing categories he labeled A through D and offering numerical targets. He said Category A (affordable housing) should reach about 2,100 units while proposing 5,000 additional market‑rate units in categories B and C over 20 years. Stigny asserted that meeting those targets would meet "about 70% of the lowest threshold of need" in those categories and would be roughly equivalent to building 90 single‑family homes per year from a traffic perspective.
Stigny recommended the council "pivot fearlessly" and "implement a thorough, rigorous and fair approach to quantify housing need factors" and set legislative targets in the comprehensive plan if those targets match community goals. He said most new units should be added in centers, not neighborhoods, to preserve the city's existing character elsewhere.
The council did not take immediate action on the public comment, which was entered into the record as part of the public‑comment period.
