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City presents Sustainable Bellevue Plan update; board probes resilience hubs, canopy and yard‑care pilots

Parks and Community Services Board · July 16, 2025
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City sustainability staff briefed the Parks Board on draft actions for the 2026–2030 Sustainable Bellevue Plan, including resilience hub pilots, a targeted tree‑canopy program and community pilots for electric yard‑care equipment; board members pressed for gap analysis, vulnerability mapping and practical implementation details.

Sofia Fall, sustainability program coordinator in the community development department, updated the Parks and Community Services Board on the phase‑2 draft of the Sustainable Bellevue Plan, which will guide Bellevue’s climate and natural‑systems work through 2030 with goals extending to 2050.

Fall summarized engagement to date — about 470 survey respondents, including 48 in languages other than English — and said two top takeaways were that 81% of those respondents reported having already experienced climate impacts (extreme heat, wildfire smoke, flooding) and that many community members prioritize…

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