A group in Klahanie has asked the Issaquah City Council to let them vote on forming a community council when the area votes on annexing to the city next year.

It’s a bad idea and the council should say “no.”

Residential areas that have a community council enjoy special privileges not given to other residents in a city. Specifically, they have the ability to veto zoning changes in their area. The Klahanie concern stated at Tuesday’s City Council meeting is that the zoning there now that allows 4.5 units an acre, would be included in a zoning classification that allows 7.26 units an acre.

Klahanie has a long history as a master planned community and a desirable place to live. But just because the county zone allows for a particular zoning doesn’t mean that an area will morph into more density.

What should be the council’s guiding philosophy is that everyone should be treated equally. We think Klahanie is a special place to live, just as are the other neighborhoods of Issaquah.

– Craig Groshart, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter