Public pressure on city council keeps the moratorium

ammamish residents took to email, social media and showed up in person at the Oct. 16 council meeting to tell council to keep the moratorium on the Town Center and not to exempt anyone from the new development regulations.

On a split 4/3 vote, the council voted to keep the moratorium. The vote on the development regulations has been postponed.

An usual number of residents packed city hall for the meeting.

Following a call to action on social media, dozens of residents came to city hall to voice their frustration with traffic and over-development. Public Comment, which usually wraps up in less than 30 minutes, took an hour and 45 minutes as one after another resident told the council to keep the moratorium on the Town Center and not exempt any projects from the new development regulations.

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