The Sammamish City Council passed 6-1 an update to the six-year transportation improvement plan at its July 7 meeting.

The plan, a state-required itemized list to be updated annually, details more than 10 specific projects, including addressing Sahalee Way Northeast and Issaquah-Fall City Road. In total, the lists includes about $90.2 million in improvement projects.

The list, however, does not commit the city to any financial obligations; it simply spells out the list of transportation priorities for the city, looking as far ahead as 2021.

It also acts as the city’s guide for budgeting transportation projects during the budget process, City Manager Ben Yazici said. In order to receive grant funding, projects must be listed on this improvement plan.

City staff removed the local improvement districts projects, which had been in the city’s TIP for more than five years. This had allowed individual neighborhoods to apply for small improvements, which the city would match up to 50 percent of the funding. But there had never been any citizen interest in the project, Yazici said.

Removing it from the list made way for improvements to Issaquah-Fall City Road, one of the notable changes made to the TIP.

Improvements, such as widening to a three-lane configuration, on Issaquah-Fall City Road will extend from Klahanie Drive Southeast to Issaquah-Beaver Lake Road. It’s estimated the total cost will be $9 million after several years of work.

There are about nine road-specific improvement projects. Work along the soon-to-be annexed Klahanie area, specifically Issaquah-Pine Lake Road and Issaquah-Fall City Road, was broken into four projects.

Other items in the TIP include repaying the Public Works Trust Fund for previous improvements to 228th Avenue Northeast and various sidewalk projects throughout the city.

Councilmember Ramiro Valderrama-Aramayo was the lone opposition vote, due to his concern, among others, regarding how these projects would be funded.