For interested community members, we want to inform you that the TMP effort is currently on an indefinite hold. When there is an update on the project status, we will be sure to provide it here and our other communication channels.

In the meantime, please know that we appreciate your engagement on the TMP and the great ideas that you shared with us! We value your time and effort in collaborating with us to improve mobility in Sammamish!

The TMP Project Team has developed a first draft TMP, which is the culmination of extensive community outreach, significant technical data collection and analyses, and City Council input beginning in spring 2017. The Draft TMP documents the community’s goals and priorities for the City’s transportation network. It addresses Sammamish's transportation challenges now and into the future by identifying issues and optimizing multimodal transportation investments in the City.

Check out the City's first Draft TMP here and let us know what you think when we commence a virtual open house this summer! The virtual open house will occur after the TMP Project Team receives additional direction on the Prioritized Projects List (TMP Chapter 4) from the City Council at an upcoming Council meeting to be scheduled. City Council and community input on the Draft TMP will be reviewed and incorporated into a revised TMP for further consideration by the City Council prior to adoption.

The TMP Survey is available for your review!

The City of Sammamish Transportation Master Plan Survey (“TMP Survey”) gave residents an additional opportunity to provide their opinion about the transportation needs and priorities in Sammamish last fall. It complements the already robust outreach effort accomplished to date for the TMP. One of the key products of the TMP is a list of prioritized capital projects for the City’s transportation network. Input from the statistically representative sample of the community will be used to refine the prioritized projects list.

To view the full TMP Survey Results, visit here!

How was the Survey conducted?

The TMP Survey was administered by mail to 3,000 randomly selected households within the City boundaries in October 2019. Of the approximately 2,938 households that received a survey in the mail (the other surveys were sent to vacant households), 687 surveys were completed, a response rate of 23%. Typical response rates to a broad resident survey of this type generally range from 12% to 30% so we were encouraged by the level of community engagement.

Stay tuned to follow the progress of the TMP and development of the prioritized project list by signing up on Connect Sammamish.

Figure 1: Importance of Various Transportation Master Plan Goals

Survey Question: As the City develops the Sammamish Transportation Master Plan, how important, if at all, do you think it is for the Plan to achieve each of the following goals?

The TMP Community Outreach Summary Report is now available for your review! This report summarizes all of the input we've received from you and your neighbors about the Sammamish transportation network and future transportation projects.

Read about the many ways that the TMP Project Team interacted with the Sammamish community to inform the TMP. Now the focus shifts to developing the first draft of the Plan, an exciting next step in the process toward adopting the TMP.

Thank you for all your time and energy invested in the TMP! Your involvement will make the TMP a strong document that best represents our community priorities for transportation.

Throughout our outreach efforts for the Transportation Master Plan (TMP), we’ve been recording all the input received from our in-person and online exercises. We first shared that data with you in late September. As community input continued via Connect Sammamish and other methods, the TMP Project Team has been updating the TMP Input Tracker, which you can now view here. This version of the TMP Input Tracker contains all input through November. Sharing this data is part of our desire to be transparent and to keep the conversation going in the community!

Take a look and see how your favorite projects resonated with your neighbors.

A Few Reminders

The TMP Project Team has categorized all projects by project type (auto, pedestrian, connection, transit, bike), date, method and date of submission, and write-in projects. The projects we have included as City-Identified projects are a subset of a larger project list.

These tallies will be used to help inform our Prioritized Project List that will be included in the Transportation Master Plan.

More notes about how to review the spreadsheet are contained within the spreadsheet itself and also detailed in the previous NewsFeed post here.

Throughout our outreach efforts for the Transportation Master Plan (TMP), we’ve been recording all the input received from our in-person and online exercises. Now, we’d like to share that data with the public in an effort to keep the conversation going in the community! Take a look and see how your favorite projects resonated with your neighbors.

We have categorized all projects by project type (auto, pedestrian, connection, transit, bike), date, method and date of submission, and write-in projects. The projects we have included as City-Identified projects are a subset of a larger project list.

How is the Community Input Used?

These tallies will be used to help inform our Prioritized Project List that will be included in the Transportation Master Plan. The net vote that these projects receive will be given a score in a more comprehensive scoring system to help determine the Prioritized Project List.

Some important things to note when reviewing this document:

· The projects shown in the TMP workshop exercise are a subset of a much larger list.

· In both the online and in-person exercise, attendees were free to write-in any project they felt was missing. The write-ins were categorized by the project station they were contributed at.

· Write-In Projects were recorded as precisely as possible.

· For the in-person workshops, attendees were given ten dots to show support for a project and one dot to show opposition to a project.

· Attendees were free to vote more than once for the same project.

· The “Workshop Project ID” category in the spreadsheet corresponds to the project numbers in the brochure passed out at the workshop and the “City Project ID” category is the number system the City uses to identify projects. Both systems are for identification purposes only.

· Asterisks in the “Workshop Project ID” category mean that the project requires coordination with other municipalities to complete.

· The total net vote was calculated by subtracting the total “No Tallies” from the total “Yes Tallies”. Every vote was worth a value of one; there was no weighting implemented.

· The Connect Sammamish tallies were recorded on 9/6/19 and then updated on 9/19/19. The contributions after 9/19/19 will be updated once the online component closes on 11/7/19.

We hope you enjoy exploring the data and seeing how your input contributed to the ranking of the projects so far. Also available for review are the comment cards we received- look for the tab at the bottom of the Excel document. Thank you again so much to those who came to our workshops or participated online, your thoughts count and matter to the development of the TMP. Please visit the online mapping tool if you still want to participate! We will be counting all online contributions after the tool closes on 11/7/19 to update the document.

View the data here!

On August 29th, the TMP Project Team hosted the last Public Workshop for the Transportation Master Plan. We had a great time discussing your ideas, learning about how you get around town, and hearing your thoughts on how to improve the Sammamish transportation system!

We want to say thank you so much to everyone who engaged with us in-person at our Workshops and our Pop-Ups! All your input is recorded and will be compiled into an Outreach Summary which we will post onto Connect Sammamish by the end of October.

While the in-person meetings are now over, you can still participate with our mapping tool that lets you learn about and prioritize projects! Please share your ideas!

Thank you again so much for helping us with this outreach effort for the Transportation Master Plan.

On August 22nd, the City of Sammamish hosted their second of three Public Workshops. It was great getting to meet everyone who came out and we thank you for spending your evening with us! We had great discussions and are working to record your input now! Thank you again for sharing your voice to help improve how you get around town!

We had such a great time at our first Transportation Master Plan Public Workshop! We got to hear from Sammamish residents about their thoughts on potential projects and had great discussions on improving how you get around town! We are very excited to talk to more of you at our second of three identical workshops!

Click here to see the Facebook event for more info!

We were at the Party on the Plateau with you on Saturday and had some really great conversations about the ways that everyone gets around town! We learned about specific areas in the City, including intersections near schools and neighborhoods off of Issaquah-Fall City Road. Even more, we heard from lots of Sammamish kids about how THEY get around town. The kids had the chance to draw their favorite way to get around town with crayons, and they did not disappoint! These budding artists love to bike, ride scooters, walk, drive with their parents, and they even want to use hoverboards in the future.

Keep the conversation going by coming out to our second of three identical workshops at Blackwell Elementary School on Thursday August 22!