This prompted a boom of office construction on the east side of Lake Washington that continues today. The freeway access was also responsible for the housing boom on the Plateau. Klahanie was the first master-planned community approved by King County. When people began moving into that development in 1985, they were the advance guard of thousands of new families. Growth in the greater Issaquah area has been phenomenal and it has created some growing pains.
Traffic is thicker, schools are crowded and people seem to come and go a little faster.
But the sense of community found here has so far weathered the development storm. Issaquah Historical Society P. O. Box 695, Issaquah, WA 98027.