Issaquah Highlands Central Park Proposal

Written by: rebecca and filed Under Blog, Issaquah Highlands, Other Development |

In case you hadn’t heard, we may be getting a new soccer field in central park. The cost to us…FREE…unless you count the clear-cutting of the forested area (est. 600 large trees) above the shopping center area and the building of a maintenance road to connect it to Pad 3, west of the Central Park pond. After this access road is built, PB will be allowed to truck and dump 250,000 cubic yards of fill onto pad 3, with work continuing through the end of summer 2009. In return for this, PB will assume the cost of installing a new soccer field.

So I am all for improving the drainage at Central Park in order to make the fields more usable for all outdoor enthusiasts, but why does the City of Issaquah feel the need to clear-cut that area in order to improve drainage?

In addition, there is another proposal on the table that would eliminate one of the propose tennis courts from the development plan in lieu of a covered picnic area. In the 3 years I have lived in Issaquah Highlands, I have rarely seen any of the covered picnic sites throughout the neighborhood used, conversely I have often seen the tennis courts filled while others are patiently waiting their turn to play.

While most of the amendment presented to us in the public notice was great, I strongly disagree with the removal of the tennis courts and the clear-cutting of 3 acres offorest. I must say though that I am happy with the proposal to create a Grand Ridge trail-head at Central Park. While I still don’t like the idea of a gated community within Issaquah Highlands, at least this mitigates my concerns about granting equal access to the trail.

For more information on the propsal you can visit the City of Issaquah website.

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2 Responses to “Issaquah Highlands Central Park Proposal”

Drew on August 27th, 2007 9:24 pm

Wanted to keep everyone up to date, although I’m not a big fan of the picnic tables it did get approved over the tennis courts by the Park Board tonight and will be recommended to be constructed over the Tennis Courts. I’m not too sure on what tree’s will be or won’t be taken down but as progress/development continues in that area you can expect trees to come down and houses to go up.
Rebecca Kuno on August 28th, 2007 9:07 pm

Drew,

Thanks for the update and keeping us all posted. It will be interesting to see how this project will progress.

Rebecca

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