Remarks by Lynne Robinson
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“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 8, 2026
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“Whereas food insecurity occurs when individuals and families lack reliable access to sufficient, affordable, and nutritious food, and it continues to affect thousands of people in Bellevue and throughout King County, and whereas access to food remains a significant need for individuals and families seeking assistance from social service providers across King County, and whereas food insecurity does not affect all communities equally, with persistent disparities experienced by communities of color, people with disabilities, and other populations facing barriers to economic stability and access…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you Deputy Mayor. I'll be brief. I just want to really praise this project. You know, we've been working on affordable housing since 2017 and this is exactly what all that hard work has envisioned and planned for to allow this type of a development to happen I just want to go over some of the things that it's really amazing about this project first of all, we're using surplus property that the city owns and Actually, it was purchased by for by soundtrack or for sound transit, but we weren't sure what we're going to do with it and The city manager had the courage to partner with bridge…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'll make a motion. I move that we adopt Ordinance 6939, approving and authorizing execution of the development agreement pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 20.30c WC and Chapter 3.70b RCW to enable the Bellred Arts Multifamily Project in the Bellred Land Use District. Second.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Deputy Mayor and Council Members.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Really impressive stats, and when I think about the Grand Connection Crossing and the access that Wilberton residents will have to our downtown library, I anticipate there'll be even more visits. So I'm really excited to see you thriving like this and serving the community as well as you do. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Quick and not redundant here, so you answered a lot of my questions. First of all, I want to thank Chair Liu and the Planning Commission for all the work that you did and staff as well. Thank you very much. I have a question. When you were covering the visitor parking, did you get public comment on that and what was the consensus or what was the majority?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I'm just curious. Is it similar to the Planning Commission's recommendation? Yes. Okay, so we're kind of retaining what we have. So it sounds like we resolved the vertical clearance requirements, and I'm fine with removing them. if it's already in the land use code. So that's fine. So I'll continue with visitor parking, and then I want to talk about parking for seniors. So I live in a building. I live downtown in a building that has no visitor parking. And the reality is that everybody parks at the park. And we're going to be implementing a paid parking program. So that means if I want…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I'd really like to see if we might want to make some recommended changes to the state. Because I mean, nobody's going to have service providers serve the seniors, nobody's going to get a visitor. And Silver Glen is our only I think our only independent, I guess there's one next to Emerald Court, but independent senior living and all those people have cars and most of them cannot walk that far. So they're staying connected to the community by having the ability to drive. And if we take the parking away, it's going to really limit people's ability to live independently. So I just, I would…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I just wanted to clarify that. Okay, so I am very supportive of the Planning Commission recommendation, and I would like to, I don't know if there's any interest in doing more of a visitor parking analysis in our downtown, in our East Main, just to understand what we're dealing with. Can we, I'm seeing some head nods, but really, Deputy Mayor, you're leading the meeting.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do I see one head nod? I think Claire, are you nodding ahead? Because it reflects I'm nodding ahead. I see council member new in house and Michelle. So, okay. I see enough head nods to ask that maybe in the future we can do a little bit of an analysis. Council member Briar, you had a comment.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And if everyone's okay with that, I'm actually very comfortable with the planning commission recommendation and then the direction to get some further analysis on the parking. So that's, That's where I'm at.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Can I get some clarity here? I thought you were going to summarize what the council had brought up and now I feel like you're making your own personal comments. Yeah. So what are you doing?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But I hope you're not making direction to staff using your own personal comments right now.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I just want to make sure you're not saying we want to remove visitor parking mandates.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“move to whoever wants to win next councilmember Robinson just to clarify because your summary did not summarize for me my my Interest so yes to the visitor parking looking at more data and options that staff might recommend. I have no interest in expanding the walk shed at this point. We've made so many changes here, we have no idea what the impact's gonna be, so I would like to, I'm not interested in doing that. And then the clarifying the vertical requirements, I think we did that tonight, I think they, standardized I mean we're not talking about anything other than the entrance and then we…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, yeah, I just wanted more information on it and then just decide whether we wanted to add some things to the legislative agenda.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“That sounded like a radio show. I'm so happy with this. This is everything I love. It's about the people. It's about art. It's about affordable housing. It's about small business. I'm really pleased. Plus, I love a good DA. I love getting... good outcomes for all the permitting that we do. I just want to give kudos to Maria Huey who spoke at public comment. You know, I often brag about our community and what an educated and gifted community we have in Bellevue and people who really care and get involved. And here we have somebody who is the former chair of the Bellevue Arts Commission She's a…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Can I just add one more thing? I remember was remiss and not commending bridge housing for being such a good partner Really have a good history with them and excited to do this project.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you, Vice City Mayor. So this looks great. I really appreciate the thoughtful work on this. And Chair Wan, thank you for your and the commission's work as well. I just had one question. Have we run this by, actually, I guess, two questions. Have we run it by the master builders to get their opinion on this?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Perfect. And then how does this impact developments like the horse farm? Can you, do you know off the top of your head?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Because they're the development on, I think it's 140th and right across from the golf course.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you, Lucy. That was exactly what I was asking. Appreciate it.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you, Deputy Mayor. So I love using Lime in Seattle and other cities. And the thing I really like about it, I mean, I'm all for that last mile and for multimodal Transportation, the thing I like about in Seattle is it tells me where the preferred route is, where the protected lanes are. And so if I'm going north-south, I got a choice of at least two routes. Or if I'm going east-west, I have at least two in downtown that I know about that I've used. And so I feel safer doing it. When you came to us whenever it was, earlier in the year or last year, and suggested making this code change, I…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Well, if we could focus on preferred routes, because that will be faster than building the infrastructure. I know a lot of volunteers who would love to help you choose two north, south, and two east-west routes in downtown. So I would really love to see that. Let's see. Really happy to know not allowed in parks. I don't think you should allow it on any unpaved surface except East Trail. So I think about like that little path on 12th, the unpaved part versus the wider sidewalk. So I'd like to encourage that. I know you're talking with Kemper Development on... how they want to treat it on their…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026