See You Tonight!
Bridle Trails 2023 Council

Candidate Forum

Tuesday, October 17

6:30 – 8:00 pm

North Bellevue Community Center

4063 148th Ave NE

Bellevue, WA 98007, 425-452-7681

Bellevue: Meet the Candidates

Join us for a meet and greet with Bellevue’s City Council candidates at 6:30, followed by a Candidate Forum. The discussion will include concerns of the Bridle Trails community and other issues impacting the city. Share this opportunity: Invite your friends from across Bellevue.

Can’t make it? Watch live or later at https://www.youtube.com/@BridleTrailsCommunityClub

HELP US KEEP BRIDLE TRAILS COMMUNITY CLUB AFLOAT!
For:Pamela Johnston 6619 132nd Ave. N.E. #133 Last Year Membership dues recorded:No recent membership recorded. Check with other household members.
During Covid, BTCC suspended operations and did not collect dues. We are now resuming operations and need your support. Our staff are entirely volunteers but we do need financial support for typesetting, printing, and mailing our newsletter, as well as equipment or other costs for meetings, such as signs and administrative costs.

To simplify our collection efforts, we will begin to collect the $20 dues on an annual basis beginning October of each year.

So please either go to the website bridletrailscommunity.org to join or send a check to:

Bridle Trails Community Club

6619 132nd Avenue, #133

Kirkland, WA 98033
Remember that BTCC is your neighborhood advocate. Our mission is to preserve, protect and promote our Bridle Trails Community. Your support is essential for presenting a strong, engaged community voice to the City of Bellevue, the County and any other organization which may propose actions affecting the Bridle Trails area. Your dues are our only income that helps support our neighborhood representation to the City of Bellevue.

CITY OF BELLEVUE’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

Pamela Gunther and Pamela Johnston
As many of you know, the City of Bellevue has been preparing its Comprehensive Plan (Comp Plan) to guide development of the City through 2044 with levels of service you can expect, e.g. cleanliness of parks or proportion of lanes open for cars vs bikes.

Currently, the Planning Commission is considering the “Big Moves” — the general direction for policy change. Next, the City will be integrating the Environmental Impact Statement (Draft and Final EIS) results.

The Final EIS (FEIS) is expected to address the 786 pages of public comments received. We hope it addresses the Bridle Trail Community Club DEIS comments that focused on potential impacts to our area, including:

•                How the comprehensive plan alternatives would ensure protection of fish, wildlife, environmentally sensitive areas, historic resources, and green space.

•                Whether and how the increased office movement to work remotely would affect future City office development.

•                How the comprehensive plan would help to minimize homelessness.

In addition, the Comp Plan must follow State law (Growth Management Act) and align with regional and King County planning policies, such as providing county housing needs for low income families and prioritizing historically underserved populations access to parks and recreation.

Be in the know

See Planning Commission Agendas and Minutes at https://bellevue.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx

Note that there are upcoming meetings for you to learn about their plans and the project status at: Bellevue 2044 – Draft Vision Statement Events | Engaging Bellevue

Name for Bridle Trails Park on 140th

The Park Board will recommend “Bridle Trails Valley Creek Park” to City Council. This is the name the BTCC recommended to recognize the park’s location within Bridle Trails and the ecosystem in which we live..

BELLEVUE AND AMENDING ITS TREE CODE

– Loretta Lopez

The City is amending the tree code. For information, go to the CIty website at https://www.engagingbellevue.com/tree-code

The next public information session on the tree code will take place in early November. We hope to have BTCC comment upon the tree code. If you are interested, please

send a message to trees@bridletrailscommunity.org