I believe that is too long to idle in traffic. It's also environmentally unsound. The more our automobiles have to sit idling in endless lines, the more emissions are poured into our air and washed into our sensitive streams and lakes. In the future, road construction must accompany any development concurrently, and traffic concurrency models must be tightened. If the roads are not ready, the development must not move forward.
Schools are another front where growth clashes are frequent.
As a member of the Issaquah School Board for the past eight years, I've been in the middle of the growth dilemma, and I've seen up close what works and what doesn't. It doesn't work when the county mandates communities to accept growth but makes no provision for the new schools needed to house the new students. It doesn't work when the county's school impact fee regulations are so vague and convoluted that schools can't get their fair share from developers. It doesn't work when the county is not at the table working with cities and school districts to solve these problems. First will be working with school officials, municipalities and citizens to rewrite the impact fee ordinances so they cannot be misinterpreted and will collect a fair share of revenue to pay for infrastructure.