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Commissioners press staff on concurrency, traffic analyses and how impact fees feed the city’s CIP
Summary
Planning commissioners questioned how concurrency reviews, traffic impact analyses and capital improvement prioritization connect to impact‑fee calculations, and staff described the city's review process and scoring system for transportation projects.
Audrey Starce, the city’s public works director, told the Planning Commission on July 24 that transportation planning for Sammamish is rooted in the Transportation Master Plan and related implementation documents, and that the city uses several tools during project review — a concurrency evaluation, traffic impact analysis (TIA), SEPA mitigation and impact fees.
Starce said the city’s review is multidisciplinary and that permit applications are evaluated by planning, development engineering, traffic engineering, inspections and maintenance staff. “Frontage improvements is a requirement for most applications,” she said, adding that those frontage improvements must meet the city’s public works standards for…
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