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Bellevue Planning Commission recommends Crossroads neighborhood area plan with stronger pedestrian and bike language
Summary
The Planning Commission voted July 9 to recommend the Crossroads Neighborhood Area Plan to city council, after adopting amendments that split a transit-access policy into separate pedestrian and bicycle policies and tightened tree-canopy language.
The Bellevue Planning Commission on July 9 voted to recommend the Crossroads Neighborhood Area Plan and associated technical map updates to the City Council, after holding a final-review public hearing and adopting a set of amendments.
The recommendation responds to a yearlong Great Neighborhoods planning effort. Community Development Department senior planner Toon Duling presented the staff recommendation and described the hearing as “the final review public hearing for the neighborhood area plan for Crossroads,” saying the draft plan implements neighborhood-scale policies in volume 2 of the comprehensive plan and is consistent with the citywide goals in volume 1.
The commission’s recommendation follows staff testimony that the Crossroads subarea plan had not been comprehensively updated in decades and that recent development and the opening of a light-rail line made a refreshed neighborhood plan timely. Staff said the draft plan is structured…
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