Issaquah Will Give Klahanie Another Shot at Annexation

The following is based on a press release from the City of Issaquah.

Voters in Klahanie and several nearby neighborhoods may decide – as soon as February 2014 – if they want to annex to the City of Issaquah.

The Issaquah City Council voted July 15, 2013, to take the next steps toward a possible annexation election.

Issaquah will now file a “notice of intent” to annex the Klahanie Potential Annexation Area (PAA) with the Washington State Boundary Review Board for King County (BRB).

A BRB hearing and decision are expected this fall, and an election could then take place early next year. The council also authorized starting the process to establish zoning for the PAA, which would only become effective upon annexation.

The PAA includes Klahanie and the following nearby neighborhoods: Glenwood, Summer Meadows, Summer Pond, Rainbow Lake Ranch, Brookshire Estates, Brookshire Crest, Brookshire East, Autumn Glen, Hunters Lane, Hunters Ridge and Livingston.

In 2011, the Issaquah City Council received a letter from several Klahanie homeowners supporting annexation to Issaquah. A petition with 534 signatures also supporting an Issaquah annexation followed in May 2012.

According to the city, Klahanie is home to 13,000 residents living in a 900-acre master planned community with 3,091 units of single family homes, condominiums, and apartments.

The City recently completed an annexation study, which found that there would be sufficient revenues to cover the costs of serving the Klahanie PAA.