King County agrees to program to shift density into Sammamish Town Center
August 31, 2011
New: Aug. 31, 11:34 a.m.
King County has officially signed off on a program that could ensure that more than 700 acres of land just outside city limits is preserved as forest and open space.
That is if there’s enough room in Sammamish’s Town Center to fit the extra development rights that those rural landowners would sell to developers.
The county’s “transfer of development rights” program, which County Executive Dow Constantine signed at the end of July, allows up 75 development rights just north of city limits to be sold to developers in Town Center. Read more
