The Issaquah City Council unanimously approved the Six-Year Transportation Improvement Plan, or TIP, after listening to citizen’s views during a public hearing at Monday evening’s meeting.

The TIP must be approved and submitted to the Washington State Department of Transportation every year per state law to show that each city has a plan for the future. Every construction plan for which the city wishes to have government funding must appear in the plan.

“These projects form a backbone for the future of transportation improvements in Issaquah,” Transportation Manager Kurt Seeman said of the six-year plan. The TIP includes 16 road renovation projects in and around Issaquah to be carried out through 2022. The estimated cost for these 16 projects from the years 2016 to 2022 is over $100.5 million, costing an average of roughly $14.3 million per year.

The city’s complete construction to-do list actually includes a total of 47 projects, but Seeman said that the other 31 projects will likely come after 2022.

“Trust me residents of Issaquah, we are considering every element, every facet [of transportation] in very deep ways,” Councilmember Paul Winterstein said. “This is about as close to a master list as we have.”