Chamber Offers Support for Multimodal Concurrency Standard for City's Transportation
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Date posted07/19/2021
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Chamber Underscores Importance of Stride BRT Amid Sound Transit Realignment
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Date posted07/19/2021
Bellevue has way more jobs than housing
Bellevue Reporter | Cameron Sheppard | July 15, 2021 Like many cities in King County, Bellevue has a housing volume problem. The city has seen significant growth in the last few decades but the number of available housing units has not kept up with the number of jobs in Bellevue. Data prepared... Continue Reading
Date posted07/15/2021
Bellevue Council Leads on Affordable Housing
Last week, Bellevue City Council unanimously approved altering the city’s multifamily housing property tax exemption (MFTE), a program that helps embed affordable, workforce housing units in new and existing market-rate construction. This comes after a yearlong collaboration between the... Continue Reading
Date posted07/6/2021
The End of a Session
After the close of the 2021 Washington State legislative session, lawmakers from across the state met at the East King Chambers Coalition (EKCC)’s 2021 Legislative Wrap Up to discuss the historic, and challenging, session. EKCC is comprised of 11 Eastside chambers, encompassing more than... Continue Reading
Date posted06/9/2021
East King Chambers Coalition’s 2021 Legislative Wrap Up
After the close of the 2021 Washington State legislative session, lawmakers from across the state met at the East King Chambers Coalition (EKCC)’s 2021 Legislative Wrap Up to discuss the historic, and challenging, session. EKCC is comprised of 11 Eastside chambers,... Continue Reading
Date posted06/8/2021
Bellevue Leaders Prioritize Workforce Housing Amidst Job Growth
Bellevue is a city as unique as they come. Anybody who lives in the region knows just how much we’ve grown in the past 20 years. What was once primarily a residential community with a downtown commercial core has transformed into a high-tech and retail hub where people come to work and... Continue Reading
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Date posted06/6/2021
Legislative Update: End of Session Report
A little after 6:00pm on April 26th, the legislature adjourned the 2021 legislative session sine die. The 2021 Washington State legislative session was a long session, which means it lasted for 105 days and included the business of writing the full 2021-23 biennial operating,... Continue Reading
Date posted04/28/2021
Legislative Update: Week 14
Week Overview Last week was largely focused on floor action to consider bills amended by the opposite chamber. Most bills with changes were concurred (agreed) on, though some did enter dispute where the house of origin asks the opposite house to recede from their amendments. Some bills that... Continue Reading
Date posted04/19/2021
Legislative Update: Week 13
Week Overview ***Important note for this week’s report: The status of bills in this report have been updated as of end of day, Saturday, April 10th. Because of the timing of when I do this report and that the legislature convened for floor action on Sunday, this report does not reflect... Continue Reading
Date posted04/12/2021
Legislative Update: Week 12
Week Overview General Update Last week was a flurry of hearings and executive sessions on budgets (operating, transportation, and capital) as well as bills that were referred to a fiscal committee. Normally budget week and fiscal week don’t fall at the same time, but due to the budgets... Continue Reading
Date posted04/5/2021
Legislative Update: Week 11
Week Overview General Update Last week was filled of policy hearings and executive sessions as we worked towards the opposite house policy cutoff on March 26th. We also started seeing some bills start to be heard by the fiscal committees given there is a quick turnaround of just one week... Continue Reading
Date posted03/29/2021