Eastside cities and towns continued to swell in the past year, boasting an overall growth rate that outstripped the rest of King County and narrowed the gap with Seattle. Some could even triple in size. The old Holly Park isolated the poor. The new Holly Park is supposed to make them part of the family. Even so, UW's Morrill cautions that it will not be easy to make this experiment work.
People sort themselves by class.
It's extremely difficult to maintain a mix and it's not just money. It's education, interests and occupation. And a lot more are coming. And Richard Morrill, professor of geography and environmental sciences at the University of Washington, notes that the Puget Sound region has had economic booms in the latter half of the 1960s, '70s, '80s and now the '90s. We may think it's crowded here in King County, but the state as a whole is not,' Morrill says.