The city of Sammamish will hold a second open house for the Sahalee Way project, which is estimated to cost $15.7 million.

The Nov. 4 event will focus on the widening of the road. It will take place at the Redmond/Sammamish Teen Center from 7-8 p.m.

During the Oct. 6 Sammamish City Council meeting, interim Public Works Director John Cunningham hoped to get a “fairly well designed or decided scope of work” so the city can negotiate the design contract.

The council voted 4-2 to continue forward with the scope of work but the conversation caused some confusion as to what the council was approving.

The council’s conversation and vote were essentially thrown out at the Oct. 20 regular meeting.

“We have decided nothing at this point, other than to move forward,” Deputy City Manager Lyman Howard said Oct. 20.

Howard told council the final scope of the project has not been decided and that city staff are presently looking to narrow the parameters of the scope of work.

“Basically we’re trying to put some guardrails up with that design,” Howard said.

As part of the contract approved in May with Perteet Inc. to create a preliminary design report for the corridor, the company will help the city “flesh out” various design options related to the project, Howard said Oct. 20.

After the open house, city staff will brief the Sammamish council on public input Nov. 10.

Cunningham hopes to bring a design contract for council review Dec. 1.

There will be another opportunity for feedback on the design scope and analysis further into the process, Cunningham said.

“As we get into about 10 percent, maybe 15 percent of the design work, we’ll come back and say … now we want to talk about the final scope,” he told council Oct. 20.

Construction on the Sahalee Way corridor is expected to begin in 2017.

From Northeast 25th Way to Northeast 37th Street, more than a mile of the corridor is pegged to be widened.

The finished area will likely include a three-lane configuration, two north- and southbound lanes with a center turn lane or median strip, as well as bike lanes and a sidewalk on the west side of the street, according to city documents.

The project is listed on the city’s six-year Transportation Improvement Plan.

For more information, attend the open house or visit www.sammamish.us/projects/SahaleeWayWidening.aspx.

The Redmond/Sammamish Teen Center is located at 825 228th Avenue Northeast.