After announcing it would undertake a review of pedestrian crossings in the city that would include a community meeting, city of Issaquah staff announced Monday they had set a community open house for 6 p.m. July 27. The review and open house are being undertaken as a response to community outrage over the death of 4-year-old Haochen Xu at a Newport Way Northwest crosswalk outside his neighborhood.

The community open house will take place at Tibbetts Creek Manor, 750 17th Ave. N.W.

Xu was struck by a vehicle outside the Summerhill neighborhood July 26, while crossing Newport Way Northwest with his mother. He died the next day at Harborview in Seattle.

Summerhill residents and other Issaquah community members attended the subsequent July 6 meeting of the Issaquah City Council to demand a reduced speed limit along Newport Way Northwest, as well as improvements to pedestrian crossings. Several speakers noted that signal lights attached to the Summerhill crosswalk rarely work — one, Olde Town resident Malia Greening-Bechtel, recorded and presented her independent investigation of the crosswalks at the meeting, showing video of a friend unsuccessfully attempting to activate the crosswalk lights herself.

The city’s review of the crossings will include input from an independent transportation expert.