The Issues

1. Keeping Issaquah filled with good jobs

  1. Encourage small self-sufficient businesses to grow in Issaquah
  2. Make our building regulations and permit process reasonable and understandable without reducing protections
  3. Look for and court the businesses we want

2. Central storm water drainage and parking garage

  1. Strongly support the City in building a central storm water drainage system to make it feasible for builders and developers to construct the right kind of buildings to attract new residential and retail units.
  2. Why? For new businesses, the cost would otherwise be prohibitive.
  3. It makes more sense for the City to devise a plan for a central system that all new building owners can access.
  4. It’ll attract new business without damaging the environment.
  5. Support a City funded parking garage adjacent to the historic district on Front Street.

3. Insuring the environment remains respected/ sustainability

  1. Create more density in Issaquah to grow while retaining the beautiful open space on Tiger Mountain.
  2. Encourage more growth in the Issaquah Highlands neighborhood, and more growth in the Central Issaquah Corridor.
  3. Support the Park Point Land Swap which would allow a developer to purchase the current Park Point land on Tiger Mountain and commit to permanent open space in exchange for increased development rights in other areas of Issaquah.

4. Transportation with more transit options

  1. Creating density in Issaquah improves the case we can make for our share of public transportation dollars from the State and Federal level.
  2. My experience living in London and New York taught me the importance of "express routes" (public transportation that goes from Point A to Point B without stopping four times in the middle).
  3. Issaquah needs direct bus service into downtown Seattle and downtown Bellevue during all hours of the day.
  4. Provide bus service during peak hours that gets you to work quicker than you would in a private vehicle (everybody in Connecticut took the train to Manhattan because it was quicker than driving).