Remarks by Jared Nieuwenhuis
41 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Sir, the mayor, please rise if you're able. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Well, my colleagues have said thank you first, Diane, John, the head of all the departments up here. Thank you. Thank you, Charmaine. So I want to mention that as well as the incredible turnout by the public this evening, as well as all the emails and the calls, et cetera, and the personal conversations that I've been having throughout the community as well. As been said before, our budget is our values document, right? And it should really reflect our residents' concerns, interests, desires, et cetera. And I really appreciate the tone of the Transmittal Letter as…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“If we're going through that exercise, could we also add on to that the cumulative impact of, for example, King County? King County has just passed the TBD. King County also just passed, I believe there's safety tech, so that's another one. So those are all going to hit Bellevue residents as well. I don't know if we can add that to that overall cumulative effect or not, or maybe create a separate line item for that, but that would also be interesting to see if possible. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Mayor.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Councilmember Newhouse. Thank you Deputy Mayor. I don't know if I can say it better than my colleagues already have but I really do appreciate the update and the service that you provide our community. I think the data points speak for themselves that you continue to do such an amazing job for our community and certainly, you know, again the data speaks for ourselves that there's a need for this and our residents are certainly taking not only our residents but the regional are taking advantage of everything that you are able to provide so thank you so much. Councilmember Bhargava.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Really appreciate the presentation this evening. Thank you, Chair Liu and the entire Planning Commission for taking such a thoughtful approach on this as well as the great work by staff and really, really, really great work. And I love how you I mentioned the simmer and settle. Whenever we have these state mandates, I am one that prefers that we just do the minimum first and then see how it works and then adjust from there. I think that's a safe approach, a thoughtful approach, and it gives us flexibility to always go beyond the state minimum when we feel it's appropriate at that time. And…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Terrific. I just want to make sure I heard you clearly when it comes to that vertical clearance. So are we then defaulting to the current code of like 8.2 on ADA vehicles being able to get through an entrance and then all the lower floors would be seven feet? Is that what we're defaulting to now? Did I understand that correctly?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, terrific. I would be one in favor of that on the bicycle parking, which is thrilled that we're doing that. I think that makes a lot of sense and. encourages other modes of transportation as well, and modes that are already being used. Would this overlap at all with what we're doing with our bike share with Lime? Would this be additional parking that can be used for that as well, or would just be separate, more private, if you will, parking structures? How would that work?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“okay thank you for that um like the use of incentives on the on the large solves i think that makes it makes it makes a lot of sense and always appreciate the incentives versus uh mandates um and then um also just looking at market driven um in in terms of um you know parking uh or visitor parking um like a little bit of flexibility there for uh for developers to really kind of kind of to set that movement moving forward but great work overall look forward to this coming coming back and appreciate all the outreach as well that you've you've done around this especially during the summer and…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, to be clear, you're asking for additional information. You're not necessarily directing on the actual policy, correct? Right. Okay. Yeah, exactly.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Whereas the city of Bellevue recognizes the historical significance of India's Independence Day, commemorating August 15, 1947, when the Republic of India achieved independence through a long and courageous struggle for freedom, bringing an end to more than two centuries of British colonial rule. And whereas India's journey from colonial rule to the world's largest democracy continues to inspire people around the globe, with the nation making significant contributions in science, technology, entrepreneurship, healthcare, education, and space exploration while strengthening its role as a…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Member Newenhouse. Thank you so much, Deputy Mayor. Yeah, exciting opportunity. Just got a couple of questions, but, you know, this is something that... is just perfect for the Bell Reds Arts District. And my first question is just about, obviously it's not exclusively for artists, but how are we gonna track that, what is developed will meet artists' needs, whatever that might be. I know we talked about this a little bit during our briefing, Could you speak to a little bit in terms of what the requirements might be, what special steps we're taking to attract artists to this…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay. But the city, and I'm assuming tapping the Bell Red Arts District, they could get the word out as well, right? That's right. Okay, great. If I read the memo correctly, it states that bridge must secure the financing and finalize the affordability levels before the ground lease is signed. So what specific enforcement mechanisms does the city have to If Bridge cannot deliver the targeted, what is it, the 140, 172 affordable units, and then it's 24 units, right? You mentioned that was a correction of the persons with disabilities, not 40. So what mechanisms do we have if things go sideways?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So if there is any last minute shifts or change of direction, what is the mechanism for bridge to alert the city of Bellevue?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay, great. That was the only other question I had then. Thank you so much. Excited to move this project forward.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Negotiations with bridge housing for the Bell Ridge Arts transit oriented development site and prepared the development agreement for a public hearing at a future meeting second Any discussion?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Do we want to do a break now or go for another one?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Yeah, just I think incredible effort by utilities, by the Environmental Services Commission. In fact, I'm not sure there's ever been a year in which the Environmental Services Commission has done so much to advance transparency, to advance affordability and fairness. So I'm just incredibly proud of this commission for all the work that you have done here with the great guidance and great reporting and data collecting and just overall incredible job by staff. And I don't say that lightly just because I think we're in a time where we need this more than ever, you know,…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Fantastic. Yeah, no surprises is always a great thing. But I also think repetition is also really important in this case. Not everybody always gravitates to what's happening in their utilities department or changes with that when they get a mailer or they see something. So I think, you know, multiple... instances where we can share these changes and how it's going to benefit parties across the board, I think is going to be really, really, really helpful. So I can't say enough good things about this. Again, at the right time where it aligns with our goals and it aligns with hopefully making an…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I move to direct staff to prepare an ordinance to implement the commission's recommendations to amend Bellevue City Code chapters 24.02, 24.04, and 24.06 to improve affordability, increase transparency, and preserve equity in the city's connection charges for water, sewer, and storm, and surface water utilities as part of the upcoming biennial budget process.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“You know... Part of the, we haven't talked about yet, is that Line was a great partner when they did a pilot back, what year was that? 2018. 2018, right. I remember numerous council members actually on that first day and getting on there. But that was exclusively bikes, if I recall, at that point. But they were a good partner. There were a lot of concerns in terms of bikes being left in inappropriate places all around the city and And to Lime's credit, I think they were very responsive. They alleviated a lot of concerns and a lot of the fears that folks had and concerns really didn't come to…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah, for sure. I'm going to agree with the mayor talking about the metrics and the KPIs. I think you've identified the right ones. However, kind of that threshold concerns me. It feels like really squishy to me. And I think you might follow up with some more specifics. But I want to make sure that there are some consequences Um, and I want to know exactly when those consequences, um, kick in. Um, you know, for, for me, just we're monitoring it is not, is not good enough. Um, because inevitably we will get some folks that will not park in the right place or, um, the reconfiguring of, of bikes…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“uh revenue is we do anticipate we'll cover all our costs with with what we collect so but it could be anywhere from a hundred thousand a year to two hundred thousand a year depending on what the ridership is okay okay um going back to the uh comment about within two hours if a complaint comes in first of all how is a complaint how is that logged is it through the app or it sounds like it's coming to the city and then we notified lime how can you explain how that works exactly”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“But if it comes through the LIME app, do we see it?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“But how does that impact the data collection that we're doing? Will LIME then share that with us? We can, yeah, we can ask.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Well, give me more comfort if we can get to a place where we're going to get like daily reports from Lyme or weekly reports, whatever cadence we need in order to track that, in order to correct anything that we might notice because, you know, Well, it'll be interesting to see. I don't want to make or be presumptuous that it'll all come through the app, but probably a fair amount will. But I'm also concerned with that two-hour time frame. For example, some of our small businesses You know, maybe a whole bunch of kids were out using that scooters, and then they decided to park them all right in…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026