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<br />770 Suncadia Trail, Cle Elum, WA 98922 | suncadia.com <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br />Date: December 15, 2025 <br />To: Chad Bala, Director Kittitas County Community Development Services <br />From: Tucker Stevens and Mark Thorne, Suncadia Resort <br />RE: Suncadia Development Agreement Extension Request – Clarification on Emergency Egress <br /> <br />To support the Suncadia Development Agreement extension request, this memo provides clarification regarding <br />emergency egress from and through Suncadia Resort as requested by Kittitas County. Specifically, this memo describes a <br />commitment by Suncadia to provide for emergency egress routes from the surrounding community in upper Kittitas <br />County through the resort during an emergency evacuation. <br /> <br />Two exhibits are included as part of this memo. The first shows the official Suncadia and Tumble Creek evacuation <br />routes that we provide to our residents (“MPR Evacuation Routes”). This directs traffic to Suncadia’s two access points at <br />Swiftwater Drive / Highway 903 and Suncadia Trail / Bullfrog Road, both of which can be used during emergency <br />evacuations. Exhibit 2 shows four existing gated locations that we believe would be good routes for supporting <br />emergency evacuations from the surrounding communities if those gates were opened during said emergency. Vehicles <br />from the surrounding community could drive through Suncadia and avoid potentially congested roads in Ronald or <br />Rosyln. These gated locations include a gate at Nelson Farm, a gate near Fire District #7 off Bullfrog Road, a gate near <br />the Roslyn Cemetery connecting Nelson Dairy Road and Swiftwater Drive, and a gate off Steam Gin Loop connecting to <br />Highway 903. <br /> <br />The current Development Agreement Exhibit J Section 3 “Roads & Non-motorized Facilities” allows access tracts to be <br />designated as emergency access. When originally written, this section of the Development Agreement was likely <br />intended only for the Master Planned Resort. However, concurrent with the extension request and per comments by the <br />County, Suncadia is proposing that this Section of the Development Agreement be interpreted as providing for <br />emergency access in both directions thereby providing for additional community wide egress options. The identified <br />emergency access tracts described above and shown in the provided Exhibits and as designated pursuant Exhibit J will <br />be available in case of an emergency to the surrounding communities. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br /> <br />Tucker Stevens and Mark Thorne <br /> <br />