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Resident urges Sammamish to plan for thousands of additional ‘B and C’ housing units
Summary
A Sammamish resident told the Sustainability Commission the city faces shortages of moderate-price (“B and C”) housing and urged the comprehensive plan update to add thousands of such units.
Paul Stickney, who identified himself as a Sammamish resident, used the public‑comment period to urge the commission and city staff to plan for a much larger mix of housing types and greater numbers of moderate- and workforce‑priced units.
Stickney said Sammamish has an “extreme undersupply” of affordable and mid‑priced housing and recommended adding 5,000 B‑ and C‑category units to the city’s planned housing figures for the comprehensive plan cycle. He described B‑category housing as roughly $175,000–$500,000 and market‑rate housing in a higher band, and said a mixed supply would ease long‑term pressures on housing and traffic.
Why it matters: Public comment highlights resident concern that existing policy and market trends are producing mostly high‑end single‑family housing while insufficiently serving teachers, service workers and other workforce households who commute into Sammamish.
What the commenter proposed
- Add 5,000 B‑ and C‑housing units to the 2,100 units referenced in the city’s 20‑year growth target, producing a combined total Stickney described as roughly 7,100 A/B/C units.
- Pursue a citywide approach to “set habitability supply numbers” for generational housing needs.
Stickney framed his remarks with a mixture of broad numeric claims, rhetorical comparisons and appeals to planning for long‑term, multigenerational housing balance. His remarks were delivered during the public comment portion of the meeting; no formal action followed directly from those comments.
Ending
Commissioners acknowledged the comment and continued with the scheduled agenda; staff and commissioners later discussed Town Center planning and affordable housing provisions during the meeting.
