I attended a Study Session tonight and like Council Member Whitten, I was disappointed. The Open Study Session topic was “East Lake Sammamish Parkway Design Alternatives”. The session was about what type of plants are we going to plant and what are the walls we are going to build look like.

Not what Council Member Whitten and I thought it was going to be about. It looks like the City Manager’s plan to press with limited changes is a phenomenon that I do not understand. The only design changes we the citizens will see are: The types of plantings, not if we need plantings; Or how the walls will look, not if we can reduce the number of walls we need; Or one that is coming up “The shapes of the sidewalks”, not if we need sidewalks that no one will use.

The City needs to spend the money to fix true safety issues and spend the excess funds somewhere else to improve the lives of the citizens.