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Mercer Island council approves modified station-area boundary, directs staff to proceed on GMA compliance
Summary
After hours of public comment on sidewalks, parking and neighborhood character, Mercer Island City Council adopted a modified station-area boundary to meet a state growth-management order and approved a multi-step GMA compliance work plan directing staff to complete the required code and plan changes by the July 31, 2026 deadline.
Mercer Island’s City Council voted March 17 to approve a modified transit station-area boundary and to adopt a work plan to carry out Growth Management Act (GMA) compliance work.
The council’s action implements a map staff prepared by applying four guidelines — excluding parks/open space and I‑90, removing noncontiguous areas, aligning boundaries with streets, and following zoning where street edges are not workable — to the half‑mile walking-distance baseline used for transit station areas. CPD Director Jeff Thomas told the council the map will be the basis for GMA compliance work this year, with further refinements possible once the…
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