Recent population statistics show that Sammamish is one of the least densely populated cities in the region. We have 3 people per acre of land. This is almost half of Mercer Island density and much less than other large suburban cities.

Growth over the next 20 years will not bring us to Mercer Island’s current density.

If we want to protect more of our lands, then we need to give up our obsession with personally owning huge estates and be more willing to live in dense urban neighborhoods, closer to jobs, and public transportation.

Our local environmentalists do more to destroy the environment by promoting low density, single use, sprawling development, in other words, a rural like, suburban Sammamish. I’ve not heard one environmentalist speak up for the town center that will absorb half or more of all future growth in an area that is less than .8% of our entire city’s land mass.

Environmentalist need to see the forest not just a frog.