Good morning, and welcome to the first Sammamish Dispatch. Five minutes on what moved in Sammamish this week, one item for your own neighborhood, the market in three numbers, and one practical thing for the house.
Sammamish this week
Tree crews take one lane of 228th Avenue, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM, from today through October 30. The work runs both directions from Issaquah-Pine Lake Road to the city limit on Sahalee Way; the city says to expect delays. Through Friday, stormwater-pipe camera inspections also bring occasional single-lane closures on 208th Avenue, 210th Avenue, 210th Place SE and 222nd Place NE at NE 16th Street. Cone Zone, October 9
Building 120 gets a land-use hearing Thursday. The Planning Commission meets at 6:30 PM on October 15 in Council Chambers, City Hall, 801 228th Ave SE, and streams online. It hears a proposal to re-designate the city-owned site at 120 228th Ave NE, 21.5 acres with a 30,800-square-foot building, from Neighborhood Residential to Mixed-Use Center, which would allow a later rezone to Community Business. The building's use has not been decided. The same night: a hearing on a 2019 request to change the transfer-of-development-rights program. The commission recommends; council decides. Agenda packet · Building 120
The 2027–28 budget arrives October 20. The city manager presents the proposed two-year budget at the 6:30 PM council meeting that Tuesday; special budget sessions follow October 27 and 28, and the budget and property tax levy hearings are noticed for November 4. The squeeze, in the city's words, is structural: property tax, its largest ongoing revenue, can rise only 1% a year without voter approval, and the city receives about 8% to 12% of a resident's total property tax bill, depending on school district. City of Sammamish · Council calendar, October 6 packet
No school Friday in Lake Washington schools; Issaquah schools are in session. Lake Washington School District has a LEAP day on October 16, and preschool programs pause October 13–15 for conferences. Issaquah School District's calendar has no October closures; its next no-school day is Veterans Day, November 11. LWSD calendar · ISD calendar
Weekend work on East Lake Sammamish Parkway, every Saturday and Sunday through October 31. Crews on the George Davis Creek fish-passage project work 7 AM to 6 PM south of NE 7th Court, with a 20 mph limit and a posted detour map. A 600-foot stretch of the East Lake Sammamish Trail, between Louis Thompson Road NE and NE Inglewood Hill Road, stays closed through year-end, with no detour. Cone Zone · King County Parks
And one for today: City Hall is closed Monday, October 12, for Indigenous Peoples' Day. City holiday schedule
Your neighborhood
Beaver Lake. The Beaver Lake Management District Advisory Board meets Monday, October 19, 5:30 to 7 PM, at City Hall and on Zoom. The board decides lake treatment, such as fragrant water lily control, paid for by an annual assessment on lakefront and draining properties. Meeting · Water lily FAQ Sold near you: 7 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.43M (range $1.03M to $16.71M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 21 days. (The top figure is one sale of five lots bought for development.)
East Lake Sammamish. The George Davis Creek work opens 900 feet of potential kokanee spawning habitat where none exists now, plus access to 2,000 feet of stream upstream; the in-water window closes October 31. Further north, Sammamish Landing, 4607 East Lake Sammamish Parkway NE, is the only public property on the lake's shoreline inside city limits: 8 acres, three beaches, two docks. Project page · Sammamish Landing Sold near you: 2 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.37M; the fastest went from listing to closing in 62 days.
Inglewood. Stormwater-pipe camera work brings occasional single-lane closures on 222nd Place NE at NE 16th Street through Friday. (evergreen) East Sammamish Park, 21300 NE 16th Street, is 19 acres with ball fields, tennis and pickleball courts and a one-acre native-forest restoration; fall hours are 7:30 AM to dusk. Cone Zone · Park page Sold near you: 6 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.60M (range $981K to $2.35M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 40 days.
Klahanie. (evergreen) Klahanie Park, 25000 SE Klahanie Boulevard, is 64 acres with the city's only cricket field and Queen's Bog, one of roughly fifty bogs in Washington. It came to the city when the Klahanie annexation took effect on January 1, 2016. Park page Sold near you: 10 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.08M (range $345K to $1.60M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 32 days.
Pine Lake. Repaving of Issaquah-Pine Lake Road SE between 228th and 234th Avenues SE is done; markings, signs and signal-loop work continue through about October 19, weather permitting. A $7.65 million remodel of Fire Station 83, 3425 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road SE, was up for council approval October 6, with work starting this fall and finishing in early 2028 if approved. Overlays · Council packet Sold near you: 5 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.10M (range $985K to $2.81M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 27 days.
Sahalee. Council weighed two refined designs for the Sahalee Way corridor on October 6, at about $38.6 million and $72.1 million, plus a roundabout at Sahalee Way NE and NE 28th Street as a possible first phase, with design in 2027 and bidding as early as 2028. The corridor returns to council October 20. This week, the 228th tree crews work up to the city limit on Sahalee Way. Work session packet Sold near you: 10 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.52M (range $1.25M to $2.08M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 18 days.
Town Center. The city's half of SE 6th Street, along the north end of Sammamish Commons between 222nd Place SE and 224th Avenue SE, is under construction through October 30: sidewalk, community parking, trees, lighting and stormwater. On the same block, Pumpkins on the Plaza runs Thursday, October 29, 4 to 7 PM, free, on the Upper Commons. SE 6th Street · Pumpkins on the Plaza Also on 228th: Building 120, the former university building at 120 228th Ave NE, is Thursday's hearing. A city review found it structurally sound with aging systems; the second phase of community engagement is paused, and the building is not available for rentals. Building 120 Sold near you: 9 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.45M (range $340K to $2.45M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 19 days.
Trossachs. (evergreen) Beaver Lake Preserve, 1400 West Beaver Lake Drive SE, is 76 acres split by the road, with 1.35 miles of trails and a link to Soaring Eagle Park through 17 acres bought in 2007. A native-planting work party runs Saturday, November 7, 11 AM to 2 PM; sign-up is required because the gravel lot holds ten cars. Preserve · Work party Sold near you: 10 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.57M (range $515K to $2.55M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 29 days.
The market in 60 seconds
Across Sammamish ZIPs 98074 and 98075, the median home sold for $1.52M over the last 30 days (50 closings; single-family alone $1.59M). The median home took 58 days from listing to closing, and there are 4.9 months of inventory on the market.
That is balanced territory: under three months favors sellers, above six favors buyers. For an owner, price and condition set the timeline. For a buyer, there is room to negotiate; 8% of homes closed above asking. Klahanie, in ZIP 98029, shows up in its own neighborhood line above rather than in these city numbers.
One useful thing: November 2, not October 31
The second half of 2026 King County property tax is due Monday, November 2. The usual date is October 31; when it falls on a weekend, the deadline moves to the next business day. Mail a check postmarked by the due date to King County Treasury, 201 S. Jackson St., Suite 710, Seattle, WA 98104, with your account number on it. If a mortgage company pays from escrow, the county says to call that company if the payment still isn't showing ten days past the due date. Questions: 206-263-2890. King County Treasury · FAQ
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