The King City Comprehensive Plan and Municipal Code both addressed any future extension of Fisher Road to the West. The West King City Planning Area (now called Edgewater) was to remain local in character.
The King City Comprehensive Plan states:
If such local street connections are ultimately made with SW 137th Avenue or to the north, it is very important that the internal street system design for the planning area will not facilitate through traffic that is traveling to and from destinations outside of the West King City Planning Area and immediate vicinity.
The wording here makes it very clear and states it’s very important that the future possibility of through traffic and regional traffic be avoided.
The King City Municipal Code states:
Although an interconnected street system is required by the provisions of this chapter, local street systems shall be designed to discourage motorists traveling between destinations that are outside of the neighborhood being served by the local streets.
It should be no surprise that members of your community are upset with the prospect of a road connecting Roy Rogers Road to 99W through the heart of their community. The expectation, which was made very clear by the city in the two documents, was that the community would remain local in character. The city manager made it very clear at the TSP Hearing that this road will now be functioning as part of the regional transportation network as a minor arterial. This is a complete departure from five years of the planning process where intra-city connectivity was being promoted and precisely what the community was concerned with from the beginning. The community should hold the city accountable. This IS NOT the community vision. These sections of the comprehensive plan and municipal code seem very clear regarding intent for the future of Edgewater.