Reporter ISSAQUAH | SAMMAMISH
Friday, October 17, 2014
THINGS
CATCHING FIRE
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The Nightmare at Beaver Lake Welcome to the Nightmare - we think you’re going to like it. Nighmare on Beaver Lake, the park-wide haunted house run by Sammamish Rotary, begins its two-week run today, Friday. This year sees the return of Goliath (pictured) to the main haunted house. WHEN: Wed-Sun, Oct. 17-31.
BY DANIEL NASH ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
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Fall Fun Fest Families with children 6 and younger are welcome at the Issaquah Community Center on Rainier Boulevard South for Fall Fun Fest. The festival, put on by teens from the Issaquah Youth Center, will include face painting, games, toys and prizes. Come in costume! A donation of $2 per child is suggested. WHEN: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Oct. 24.
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A Cut Above Sammamish City Hall and the Sammamish Arts Commission present an exhibit of hand cut art in the media of paper, wood, print and sculpture. Exhibiting artists are Betsy Best-Spadaro, Mia Yoshihara Bradshaw, Lauren Iida, Naoko Morisawa and June Sekiguchi. WHEN: Oct. 17 through Jan. 16.
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Sammamish Walks Join Parks Commissioner Hank Klein and Audubon member Janice King on a walk through Beaver Lake Preserve. WHEN: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Oct. 18.
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Painting from the Fire Within ArtEAST Art Center (95 Front Street N.) hosts a process painting class from Gail Baker. Process Painting is a form by which painters work free from constraints in silence, allowing a painting to take shape from their fluid emotions and thoughts. Cost is $95 for members, $100 for others. WHEN: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Oct. 19.
Council approves agreement with Costco HQ
Daniel Nash, Issaquah/Sammamish Reporter
Collin McNair learns all about Issaquah Station 71’s fire trucks from firefighter Mike Enselman. Eastside Fire and Rescue opened up its stations to the public through districtwide open houses Oct. 11.
Samm. tree ordinance passes BY BRYAN TRUDE ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
A special meeting and study session of the Sammamish City Council has been called to consider an emergency ordinance related to tree removal. The proposed ordinance would change Sammamish city code to require at least 25 percent of trees be retained on short plats of two or fewer lots, and increasing the requirements to 35 percent for short plats
of three or more lots. The proposed ordinance would add a new requirement requiring 1:1 replanting ratio for every significant tree removed as part of a subdivision on plats of three or more lots. The Community Development Committee is recommending the council adopt the ordinance on an emergency provision and schedule a public hearing within the next 60 days. As an emergency ordinance, the SEE TREES, 3
Costco: You’re free to grow. At a special meeting Monday, the Issaquah City Council approved a 30-year development agreement that will allow the wholesale corporation to expand its Pickering Place international headquarters to 1.5 million square feet. The council amended the Pickering Place Master Site plan in order to lift standing growth limits set by the council in 1987. The headquarters’ building limits will be set to be in agreement with the Central Issaquah Plan approved in 2012, which allows for a greater building height and density than that set about in the Pickering plan. The development agreement was authorized following the Pickering amendment, with the stipulation that some sections of the agreement needed to be rewritten to include revisions proposed at the council’s Oct. 9 meeting. The revisions included language clarifying that any office space Costco leased to other businesses would remain under the development agreement; in other words the leased properties wouldn’t be at risk of being rezoned through a back door. Under the agreement Costco would shoulder slightly less than half of the $50 million price tag on road improvement projects in Issaquah’s downtown core. One such project would extend Southeast 62nd Street to Pickering Place Plaza and add a traffic circle to the road’s intersection with East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast. That project raised the hackles of Truck Country owner Randy Bass, who said the circle would abut the corner of his business. Bass, his attorney and his independent traffic engineer testified against the circle in public hearings. An Issaquah citizen, Cynthia Lesford, said she believed public commenters weren’t being adequately heard in meetings, citing the hearings on the development agreement. “It seems that just when a lawyer or a traffic expert is getting into the substance of their presentation, the timekeeper chimes in with, ‘45 seconds,’” Lesford said. “To me this is saying ‘Shut up and sit down.’” Daniel Nash: 425-391-0363 ext. 5052; dnash@issaquahreporter.com
FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL
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