Prior to a roundtable meeting on growth in September, the city of Sammamish is asking residents about growth through its Virtual Town Hall public input portal.

The new discussion on growth opened for comment Tuesday evening and will remain open through late October, according to a press release sent out by the city. Residents looking to weigh in can go to http://peakdemocracy.com/3927 to offer their feedback.

“We hope this Virtual Town Hall topic will give the City Council and Planning Commission an early reading on what they’re likely to hear that evening,” said Tim Larson, communications manager for the city of Sammamish, in the press release.

The roundtable meeting on growth will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8 in the City Council chambers. It will start with a presentation on the state’s Growth Management Act, the city’s assigned housing targets and other growth-related issues. The meeting will then move to small-group discussions led by City Council members and Planning Commissioners. The residents and discussion leaders in those roundtable groups will then report to everyone present, according to City Manager Lyman Howard.

“We hope to hear some good ideas we can add to our growth-management tool kit,” Howard said in the press release. “This is a tough issue, but our residents are resourceful and creative. I’m optimistic we’ll put some good things on the table.”

The prior discussion topic available through the city’s Virtual Town Hall – city communications – will remain open through late September.

“We’ve had a good experience with Virtual Town Hall,” Larson said. “Assuming each participant would have taken three minutes to say the same thing during a Council meeting’s public comment period, the feedback we’ve received so far on the city communications topic would have amounted to over 12 hours of public comment.”