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Planning Commission backs downtown redesignation updates, asks for map corrections and stronger green-stormwater language
Summary
The commission recommended the Downtown Subarea Plan updates to meet regional growth-center requirements, asked staff to correct map colors and the perimeter overlay to match the code, and amended one policy to say 'expand' rather than 'encourage.'
The Bellevue Planning Commission on July 9 recommended that City Council adopt updates to the Downtown Subarea Plan supporting the area’s redesignation as a metropolitan growth center, and adopted technical amendments requested during the hearing.
City planning staff framed the hearing as a required check-in under Puget Sound Regional Council rules to confirm that downtown meets criteria for a regional growth center. Planning manager Kate Ness and associate planner Jonathan Winslow presented the proposed narrative, policy revisions and two revised maps that staff said were updated after agenda publication to correct typographical errors and to align the plan with code-mandated perimeter overlays.
One preregistered speaker from the private sector, Maria Frost of Kemper Development,…
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