Sammamish, WA Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Sit-Lie Rules (2026)

' 'Public place' is defined expansively to include alleys, bridges, buildings, driveways, parking lots, parks, plazas, sidewalks and streets open to the public, including businesses that serve food or drink or provide entertainment, and the doorways and entrances (and enclosing grounds) of buildings. The operative clause, subsection (2), states: 'A person is guilty of pedestrian interference if, in a public place, he or she intentionally obstructs pedestrian or vehicular traffic or aggressively begs. ' Because the offense requires intent to obstruct or to intimidate, sitting or lying on a sidewalk without blocking anyone's path and without intent to intimidate does not by itself satisfy the statute; the City must show the specific blocking or intimidating conduct the definitions describe.